Look, It's a Bird...
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Bob_Skurka
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Re: Look, It\'s a Bird...
Rob, I didn't realize southern Michigan was in a war zone. Those Warthogs are ugly planes, but very effective on tanks! (you don't have a tank hid in the woods behind the house do you?)
Rob, I didn't realize southern Michigan was in a war zone. Those Warthogs are ugly planes, but very effective on tanks! (you don't have a tank hid in the woods behind the house do you?)
snorider
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Re: Look, It\'s a Bird...
Why didn't they come by my place I feel left out /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Those are some cool planes
Why didn't they come by my place I feel left out /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Those are some cool planes
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Re: Look, It\'s a Bird...
Very cool shot. I love A-10s. They are very cool looking planes. Their styling is distinctive yet, practical. Usually the only planes that fly-by here are F-16s at high altitude. A few times some months ago I was able to watch them at night "dogfighting". They were dropping flares. That's a site to see. One time I was driving home and kept watching them. I know I shouldn't have paid that much attention to them, but well... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Very cool shot. I love A-10s. They are very cool looking planes. Their styling is distinctive yet, practical. Usually the only planes that fly-by here are F-16s at high altitude. A few times some months ago I was able to watch them at night "dogfighting". They were dropping flares. That's a site to see. One time I was driving home and kept watching them. I know I shouldn't have paid that much attention to them, but well... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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Re: Look, It\'s a Bird...
We don't get many flyovers where we are. There was a festival in Goshen (IN) which is where they may have been coming from. I thought it was fitting for the fourth of July weekend /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
We don't get many flyovers where we are. There was a festival in Goshen (IN) which is where they may have been coming from. I thought it was fitting for the fourth of July weekend /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Re: Look, It\'s a Bird...
Those are the snow drifts in Rob's driveway during our brutal Indiana/Michigan winters... good thing he has a tractor! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Those are the snow drifts in Rob's driveway during our brutal Indiana/Michigan winters... good thing he has a tractor! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Re: Look, It\'s a Bird...
What is really cool is to watch them do their thing. They fly from Whiteman AFB to the practice range here at Ft Leonard Wood. When they shoot, if you don't know what you are hearing, it sounds like a giant burping in the distance. And if you happen to be near the airfield when they are practicing touch and go, you're whole car will shake when they stand them on their tail and hit the afterburner.
But the coolest thing I ever saw in the air was last year. Clear skies, middle of the day and my wife told me she was seeing something very strange flying over very high. When I first looked, it looked like the Starship Enterprise with a smaller ship following close by. When I looked with my binoculars I saw that it was a B2 Stealth being refueled with another B2 following and waiting for his turn.
What is really cool is to watch them do their thing. They fly from Whiteman AFB to the practice range here at Ft Leonard Wood. When they shoot, if you don't know what you are hearing, it sounds like a giant burping in the distance. And if you happen to be near the airfield when they are practicing touch and go, you're whole car will shake when they stand them on their tail and hit the afterburner.
But the coolest thing I ever saw in the air was last year. Clear skies, middle of the day and my wife told me she was seeing something very strange flying over very high. When I first looked, it looked like the Starship Enterprise with a smaller ship following close by. When I looked with my binoculars I saw that it was a B2 Stealth being refueled with another B2 following and waiting for his turn.
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Re: Look, It\'s a Bird...
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ...here at Ft Leonard Wood.)</font>
I was born pretty close to you, but haven't lived there in a long, long time. I still remember picnics at Meramac Caverns, all the great fireworks you can buy in Missouri, and the sonic booms from F-4 Phantoms flying from the McDonnell-Douglas factory near St. Louis to wherever they were going. Used to have soldiers from FLW in our house all the time.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ...here at Ft Leonard Wood.)</font>
I was born pretty close to you, but haven't lived there in a long, long time. I still remember picnics at Meramac Caverns, all the great fireworks you can buy in Missouri, and the sonic booms from F-4 Phantoms flying from the McDonnell-Douglas factory near St. Louis to wherever they were going. Used to have soldiers from FLW in our house all the time.
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Re: Look, It\'s a Bird...
<font color="red"> But the coolest thing I ever saw in the air was last year. Clear skies, middle of the day and my wife told me she was seeing something very strange flying over very high. When I first looked, it looked like the Starship Enterprise with a smaller ship following close by. When I looked with my binoculars I saw that it was a B2 Stealth being refueled with another B2 following and waiting for his turn. </font>
You ARE lucky! That would have been awesome to see. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
<font color="red"> But the coolest thing I ever saw in the air was last year. Clear skies, middle of the day and my wife told me she was seeing something very strange flying over very high. When I first looked, it looked like the Starship Enterprise with a smaller ship following close by. When I looked with my binoculars I saw that it was a B2 Stealth being refueled with another B2 following and waiting for his turn. </font>
You ARE lucky! That would have been awesome to see. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
