My F-15's

[WDaniels]

Rich m

If you are in Las Vegas, you get to see them all. To bad you can't see the SR-71 anymore. They are retired and are on static display or in the bone yard. That is one cool airplane to watch take off. They used to be at RAF Mildenhal in England and we always watched then take off and land. An awsome aircraft.

WD

 

[klenger]

There's an SR-71 on display at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson. That thing is big. I guess it could be put back into service pretty quickly if they needed it. Same goes for some of the other A/C on display there.



http://www.pimaair.org/loc_sr71.htm



http://www.pimaair.org/

 

[The patriot]

Re: I didn't need to see this....

So the C-130 will still be the primary grocery cart for the DoD for quite a while? the C-17's ( I think that's the designator) pretty cool, too. Can taxi in REVERSE, UNASSISTED...



I guess with jet engines you don't really need the "BEEP, BEEP, BEEP" when you drive backwards [/B]

My little brother is lead project engineer for C-130 propulsion for the Navy. Pax river.

He tells me theyre going to fly em till they fall out of the sky. :-laf

I'm sure that most of the aircraft that he's doing design changes, modifications, and updates on is older than him.

The B-52 is another oldie but goodie.

Eric

 

[benhall]

I'll throw in some loose change on this one. Being Active Duty Air Force (soon to be deployed to Afghanistan), I get to see our F-16's and A-10's fly pretty much daily. The neat part about a 16 is the afterburner bouncing off the runway during night take offs. The good ol' A-10 with the Gatling gun up front is just plain scary. With the depleted uranium rounds that eat tanks and anything else that looks good, don't have a chance. And you talk about flying slow, these do a good job of it too. Your dead before you hear it, if your the target.



I also spent 18 months at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota, 1 of 2 homes of the B-1B Lancers. With four engines stolen from the F-16, this are even better to see take off at night, but damn those are loud. The neat thing about these, is the swept wing design. Once a quarter they would do a high speed fly-by over the flight line with the wings in the aft position. Talk about cool as hell. Before I got there, they had one break the sound barrier and sent the sound wave to the parking lot at the mall in Rapid City and the AF had to pay for the blown out windows. Nice bill for the government.



Ben

 

[Scot]

They build the F16 about 10 miles from where I sit. It is great fun to sit there and watch the planes fly when there is someone in town looking to buy a few. I have seen them pull the nose up just high enough off the ground to keep from rubbing the tail and go out of sight in a vertical climb. Full afterburner.



Please give me a ride! Please!

 

[QRTRHRS]

I get to see and hear the air traffic out of Fort Indiantown Gap too. Always makes me pause and reflect.



There is a SAC Museum just off I-80 between Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska. It is not fancy but they have an SR-71 and a U2 among other craft. Best part is you can reach out and touch them. They just sit there on the tarmac like the big butt birds that they are. At least it was like this when I stopped by in 97'.



I saw a show on Discovery or History about the C5. It takes near 11-12 hours to get one airborn with routine checks. Lots of little microswitches or something like that. Sitting out in the weather makes them act up. Situation gets hot, they are not so fussy. Drive by Dover or someplace, it gets dark when they fly over.

 

[TowPro]

There is one sitting in the Warner Robins Air Force Base Musium in GA. If you check out the web site it says the plane they have set the worlds absolute speed record of 2,193 MHP and the 1,000km closed course record of 2,092 MPH When I saw it in the mid 90's, it was ropped off, and still had the "remove before flight" ribbons hanging on it. They said it was ready to fly with minor maintaince.

Originally posted by klenger

There's an SR-71 on display at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson. That thing is big. I guess it could be put back into service pretty quickly if they needed it. Same goes for some of the other A/C on display there.



http://www.pimaair.org/loc_sr71.htm



http://www.pimaair.org/

 

[Cowboy Medic]

I grew up watching the bombers at ellsworth, I can remember my dad talking about how amazing those B-1's are, I never really got it until I was out riding in the prairie and one flew over very close to the ground, moving like a bat-outta-hell.



I remember when the sonic boom blew out those car windows in Rapid, My brother and I were running outside trying to figure out what had happened. Nice thing was My dad was the Fire Chief in Rapid so we just called him and he filled us in once things had been tracked down.



I was in the Navy and I am just amazed that there is anybody on this earth who could know 1/10th of what our military is capable of and want to take a chance on ******* us off.



God Bless America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GWDiesel]

About 1990 or 1991,while at Wendover Utah,the salt flats we

(the Wife and myself) were watching the cars running down the course. And my wife looked up and said what is that in the sky?

there were 3 strange looking air craft in formation, South of Wendover flying S/E not real fast but strange looking!! later(years) later we think they look'd like stealth fighters. Don't forget

the Enola Gay and Bocks Car trained at Wendover to drop the

Bombs that ended the W/W II with japan! GWD