VFR800 Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 ^ North Korean flights can be rather quiet..... 1 Quote Link to comment
KiloTango1200 Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 anybody else experience a fighter jet scrambled in mach flight over your neighborhood? :o wow... anybody else experience a fighter jet scrambled in mach flight over your neighborhood? :o wow... Not many fighter jets. I was a young kid in the '60's growing up in Amarillo TX. My family lived 3 miles off the end of the runway that was the home to a B-52 SAC base. Another 10 miles away is the Pantex Plant.The only assembly/dis-assembly facility for Nuclear Weapons in the U.S. I heard and felt the roar of a dozen B-52 scramble on a regular basis. All the windows in the house would buzz and Mom would have to straighten all the pictures on the wall when it was over. Made a big impression on me. One of my earliest memories and continued into my early teenage years. Quote Link to comment
DanielC Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 I was at a summer camp in northern California, in a morning camp meeting. During one of our morning meetings, a FB-111 practising low level contour flying came over the large hill (small mountain) behind the meeting place. and coming down the side of the hill, the jet has to do a sharp "up" elevator to follow the level ground in the valley. The additional thrust requires intermediate afterburner, and then the jet is gone. But the sound is not. And you do not hear the jet approach. Just a quite calm morning, nothing unusual, and a split second later, afterburner jet noise. The camp speaker said after the afterburner noise dissipated, "Relax, it's one of ours." I was driving by Portland International Airport, one morning, when two Phantoms took off, and headed west, in a big hurry. Not supersonic, but really fast. And really loud. Another day, I was in a church parking lot installing CB radios in some school buses for another summer camp. Then I heard a very low frequency drone. too low to figure out a direction. Then as it got louder, and had more higher frequency tone, and I could figure out where this odd sound was coming from. Looking in that direction, a B-17, being escorted by a P-51, and few other WWII aircraft flew over. First time I saw a B-17 in actual flight, and not just flying around an airport that was holding an air show. We get used to big airplanes flying across the sky. We see them every day. I was amazed at how slow the B-17 was flying. Quote Link to comment
MikeRL411 Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 A lot slower than the Graf Zepekin I saw from my Baby Carrage! My earliest memory. No! I do not have PIX! Quote Link to comment
Z-train Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 I was amazed at how slow the B-17 was flying.160 MPH. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mattndew76 Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 Coolest modern jet experiences I have seen is when I was having lunch with my two oldest kids at their grade school. After lunch everyone went to the playground and half way through the play break 2 F-22's came roaring through the south valley maybe 100 feet off the tree tops above us rolling and banking toward Cottage Grove Lake. Pretty amazing speeds and agility. another cool one was 1999 Grants Pass Boatnik festival. I am guessing what would be an F-15 came in extremely low directly overhead of the house. So close I swear I could see the details on the pilots helmet. He went vertical right over the yard I was standing in. looked like he came skidding to a stop before heading skyward. It woke my lazy ass brother up who was in a weed coma from a night of bong rips. He come tearing out of the house screaming "WTF just blew up!!!" Quote Link to comment
Jesse C. Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Currently undergoing restoration to full airworthy in England. Early P-38H This P-38 flew with the 475th FG, 432 FS, of the USAAF 5th Airforce in Papua and New Guinea until its pilot made a forced landing on 14 September 1943 at Fieta, breaking off its propellers and dislodging its two Allison Engines. The remains lay abandoned in the kunai grass area near Brahmin, forty miles (60 km) inland from Madang, until 1992 when initial unsuccessful attempts were made to remove the aircraft. Following three further years of negotiations by Bob Jarrett, the remains of the P-38 eventually arrived in Adelaide, South Australia on 17 May 1999. On arrival the museum’s volunteers began the ‘deep restoration’ of the P38 until it was completed and placed on display. In October 2014, the P-38 was seen while being transported to David Arnold’s Flying A Services facility at the former USAF base of RAF Bentwaters, England. Rob Fox 1 Quote Link to comment
Burabuda Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 at least three p-38 crashes in san diego during 1943 http://www.cawreckdivers.org/wrecks/p38.htm http://www3.gendisasters.com/california/18182/san-diego-ca-fighter-plane-crashes-home-aug-1943 http://elcajonhistory.org/echs_airplanes.htm Quote Link to comment
Mattndew76 Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Been there several times . Quote Link to comment
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