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Offline LePaul

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Busy day at our airport...7 Jaguar fighters!
« on: August 03, 2001, 11:31:00 AM »
http://www.bangornews.com/cgi-bin/article.cfm?storynumber=38868

Seems these guys took a beating in an ice storm and landed here to access the damage.  We see a lot of the British fighters, as they stop-over from the cross Atlantic trip, take a rest then proceed on to their destinations.  The Nimrod aircraft...whatever it is, that has 4 engines on it, is LOUD and just plain awesome.  Of course they also have their Harriers and Tornados, which are very cool airplanes too.  But hey, when you take a big plane about the size of a 727 and it screams like a jet, *thats* cool!  Wish I had some pics of that Nimrod.

But anyways, sometimes the airport is a lot of fun here   :)  I recall being in the traffic pattern to land a few months ago...I had 2 F-16s, a C-5, 3 helicopter gunships and a airliner all in there with me.  What kinda suprised my passnger was that when the Apaches flew by, the gun points where the pilot is looking.   Hehehe, THAT was awesome!