Just Wishing...

[JethroB]

Right now and most days I can hear and see pairs of A-10 Warthogs playing tag overhead. Saw one pooping flares or chaff once as his partner chased him. At a few hundred feet at times and slowly going by. Awesome planes. Out of Moody AFB.

I often use FlightAware.com but have never seen military aircraft listed. I assumed they couldn’t be tracked. Will check the other out.

 

[ovrszd]

Right now and most days I can hear and see pairs of A-10 Warthogs playing tag overhead. At a few hundred feet at times. Awesome planes.
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I often use FlightAware.com but have never seen military aircraft listed. I assumed they couldn’t be tracked. Will check the other out.

I've slept many nights under the comfortable umbrella of Warthogs while in Indian Territory.

 

[NorTracNY]

Right now and most days I can hear and see pairs of A-10 Warthogs playing tag overhead. Saw one pooping flares or chaff once as his partner chased him. At a few hundred feet at times and slowly going by. Awesome planes. Out of Moody AFB.
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I often use FlightAware.com but have never seen military aircraft listed. I assumed they couldn’t be tracked. Will check the other out.

I miss seeing them. As a kid, they flew regularly over our place. I still remember not launching my model rocket until the plane was away from the area. I also got to fly in their flight simulator at the base one time as a kid.

 

[deserteagle71]

I grew up in Pennsylvania, but now live in Nevada courtesy of the US Navy. My first duty station - back in the 60s - was NAAS Fallon, which is now the Top Gun school for the Navy in Fallon, Nevada. Great duty, and it was awesome to watch the Navy's best fighters in action. The Navy has multiple bombing/strafing ranges around Fallon and it is possible to sit and watch mock dogfights overhead, or bombing runs against a target on one of the ranges. Practice like this is what makes our pilots so superior. I just wish I was good enough - had the reflexes - to photograph the Navy fighters that come screaming in across the desert so low they seem to be brushing the tops of sagebrush. But by the time I get my camera to my eye they are long gone. I took this photo a couple years ago while camped in the Stillwater Mountains, not far from one of the Navy's bombing ranges. They were pounding this knoll into the ground:

No, I was not close to the action - above photo was taken with a 600 mm lens.

We also have a lot of Air Force planes doing low-level flights overhead where I live...anyone know the model of this plane?

 

[ovrszd]

I grew up in Pennsylvania, but now live in Nevada courtesy of the US Navy. My first duty station - back in the 60s - was NAAS Fallon, which is now the Top Gun school for the Navy in Fallon, Nevada. Great duty, and it was awesome to watch the Navy's best fighters in action. The Navy has multiple bombing/strafing ranges around Fallon and it is possible to sit and watch mock dogfights overhead, or bombing runs against a target on one of the ranges. Practice like this is what makes our pilots so superior. I just wish I was good enough - had the reflexes - to photograph the Navy fighters that come screaming in across the desert so low they seem to be brushing the tops of sagebrush. But by the time I get my camera to my eye they are long gone. I took this photo a couple years ago while camped in the Stillwater Mountains, not far from one of the Navy's bombing ranges. They were pounding this knoll into the ground:
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No, I was not close to the action - above photo was taken with a 600 mm lens.

We also have a lot of Air Force planes doing low-level flights overhead where I live...anyone know the model of this plane?
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Got my curiosity up for sure!!!

 

[VaGlock]

At least they don't have to pay taxes on all that fuel!

 

[3Ts]

anyone know the model of this plane?

That's a C-17. It replaced the C-141.

 

[ovrszd]

That's a C-17. It replaced the C-141.

You are right!!!! I rode one from Topeka Kansas to Kuwait.

 

[deserteagle71]

That's a C-17. It replaced the C-141.

Thank you! Spent a lot of time in C-141s during my time in the Navy...also the C-130 Hercules while in Vietnam.

Those C-17s seem to be playing games with radar installations in Nevada. Nevada is ribbed with a whole series of tall mountain ranges running north and south; the C-17s fly really low down the valleys, below the mountains crests, then abruptly pop up and over the range and drop down into the next valley.

 

[deserteagle71]

You are right!!!! I rode one from Topeka Kansas to Kuwait.


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^Boy, does that bring back memories...lots of hours spent in those "luxury" cabins! Some in C141 Starlifters but mostly in the C130 Herky birds which is how they got us around Vietnam. March us all in the back and then you find yourself a seat in between the cargo...and coffins. But there were no fancy lights on the ceilings - once the rear ramp came up and the aircraft was underway it was almost pitch black inside.

 

[ovrszd]

^Boy, does that bring back memories...lots of hours spent in those "luxury" cabins! Some in C141 Starlifters but mostly in the C130 Herky birds which is how they got us around Vietnam. March us all in the back and then you find yourself a seat in between the cargo...and coffins. But there were no fancy lights on the ceilings - once the rear ramp came up and the aircraft was underway it was almost pitch black inside.

My first trip in a C130 was from Da Nang to Can-Tho. Herded in like cattle. Sat on the floor, back to back.

Made several C130 trips around Iraq as well as in/out of Kuwait.

The Missouri Air National Guard does low level C130 flights over my farm. Always brings back memories.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Speaking of airplane watching...I was a preschooler for most of WWII and fighter planes fascinated me. We lived in Tulsa briefly, and I recall seeing a P38 fly overhead and then a parachute! I ran in and told Mom and Dad, that I had seen an airplane crash. I got this "Oh, yeah right. Go back out and play". There was a big story in the news paper the next day about a fighter plane that crashed. My credibility was restored instantly!

 

[Doofy]

I enjoy the drone of those humongous military transports and feel comforted knowing those guys and gals are ever vigilant on our behalf.

 

[ovrszd]

Speaking of airplane watching...I was a preschooler for most of WWII and fighter planes fascinated me. We lived in Tulsa briefly, and I recall seeing a P38 fly overhead and then a parachute! I ran in and told Mom and Dad, that I had seen an airplane crash. I got this "Oh, yeah right. Go back out and play". There was a big story in the news paper the next day about a fighter plane that crashed. My credibility was restored instantly!

Similar story. My Aunt was a Barn Stormer Pilot.

When I was 6 or 7 I was outside playing and heard a plane flying low. Looked to the sky and there was a plane circling our farm. As I watched it approached our hay field and landed. I ran inside and told my Mom a plane landed in our field!!!! I got the same response. "Richard, I'm busy, go play." I ran the 1/4 mile to the field to get a closer look at the plane. There was my Aunt standing there waving at me!!!! From that moment on I considered her a "Goddess".

 

[BryceSteiner]

"We just paid $4.05 per gallon for #1 Heating Oil"

Dont' worry, your paying for the jet fuel too.