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BAR wrote:
H the K wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:02:52 -0400, Captain Marvel of Woodstock
wrote:

Whoa - I would have loved to have seen that.

http://tinyurl.com/ltrj4d

Back in the olden days I used to get a show like that quite often in
Clinton Md when they were having an air show at Andrews. The fighters
were making a lot of their turns right over my house.
After a few of those crashes Harry is talking about they started being
a little more careful. It is scary when you think of it. The pilot may
be able to punch out but that plane is coming down somewhere.
There are not many places in suburban DC where that is not in
someone's house.


There's still a lot of touch and go training at Andrews, which is
dangerous enough, but as far as I know, no buzzing of apartment
buildings. I visit an indoor shooting range not far from the base, and
the entire building rattles every few minutes some days. If you are
wearing your shooting earmuffs, you don't hear a lot, but you can feel
it.

You are just like the the idiots in Franklin Farms, at the end of the NW
-SE runway at Dulles. New home owners: "Can't something be done about
the noise?" Airport: "No, the airport has been here for 25 years before
your house was built at the end of the runway." New home owners: why is
there so much noise at 3:00 AM?" Airport: "We have a DC-10 engine test
facility. It wasn't a problem until your subdivision built about 1 year
ago."


What are you raving about? I don't live anywhere near Andrews, and
whatever happens there these days is no concern of mine. Once in a
while, if I am at a shooting range near the base, I hear an air force
plane passing over.

If you are on meds, they aren't working for you.

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I used to go to the drag races in Las Vegas twice a year. Across the street
is Nellis Air Force Base. At times, Red Flag exercises coincide with the
drags. We get a nice flyover on Sunday, and a jump in by the parachute
team. All sorts of aircraft, and some of them really hot dogging. Some
taking off and going vertical to 30,000 and leveling off. The boomerang
shaped bomber ..... man does that thing go slow. Raptors. Hercules.
Ospreys. Blackhawks. Apaches. A-10's ...... they can do 70 mph lowest
speed. AWACS, all the big planes and a lot of the little hot rods, too. We
stay in the motorhome area, and get a lot of close looks.

Steve

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On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:33:42 -0600, "SteveB"
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I used to go to the drag races in Las Vegas twice a year. Across the street
is Nellis Air Force Base. At times, Red Flag exercises coincide with the
drags. We get a nice flyover on Sunday, and a jump in by the parachute
team. All sorts of aircraft, and some of them really hot dogging. Some
taking off and going vertical to 30,000 and leveling off. The boomerang
shaped bomber ..... man does that thing go slow. Raptors. Hercules.
Ospreys. Blackhawks. Apaches. A-10's ...... they can do 70 mph lowest
speed. AWACS, all the big planes and a lot of the little hot rods, too. We
stay in the motorhome area, and get a lot of close looks.

Steve


Don't you just sit on pins and needles, constantly worried for your
life?
--

John H

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On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:37:51 -0400, H the K
wrote:

Note that I am not saying the military should avoid dangerous flights,
or building fly-bys, or whatever. All manner of training is important to
military aviators. But there is training and there is stupidity, and
flying that close to an apartment building for the purpose of "showing
off" is stup

Close to the building? It looks like the camera was far from the
scene, and used a very long lens. With the flattened perspective the
plane could fair distance, a couple of hundred feet or more, from the
building.

Casady

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"H the K" wrote in message
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There's still a lot of touch and go training at Andrews, which is
dangerous enough, but as far as I know, no buzzing of apartment buildings.
I visit an indoor shooting range not far from the base, and the entire
building rattles every few minutes some days. If you are wearing your
shooting earmuffs, you don't hear a lot, but you can feel it.

Pretty much sums up your combat experience.

Eisboch

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Richard Casady wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:37:51 -0400, H the K
wrote:

Note that I am not saying the military should avoid dangerous flights,
or building fly-bys, or whatever. All manner of training is important to
military aviators. But there is training and there is stupidity, and
flying that close to an apartment building for the purpose of "showing
off" is stup

Close to the building? It looks like the camera was far from the
scene, and used a very long lens. With the flattened perspective the
plane could fair distance, a couple of hundred feet or more, from the
building.

Casady

Indeed, I mentioned that, but...we don't really know, do we?

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Eisboch wrote:
"H the K" wrote in message
m...

There's still a lot of touch and go training at Andrews, which is
dangerous enough, but as far as I know, no buzzing of apartment buildings.
I visit an indoor shooting range not far from the base, and the entire
building rattles every few minutes some days. If you are wearing your
shooting earmuffs, you don't hear a lot, but you can feel it.

Pretty much sums up your combat experience.

Eisboch




Are you in training for King of the Non Sequiturs?

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"H the K" wrote in message
m...
Eisboch wrote:
"H the K" wrote in message
m...

There's still a lot of touch and go training at Andrews, which is
dangerous enough, but as far as I know, no buzzing of apartment
buildings. I visit an indoor shooting range not far from the base, and
the entire building rattles every few minutes some days. If you are
wearing your shooting earmuffs, you don't hear a lot, but you can feel
it.

Pretty much sums up your combat experience.

Eisboch


Are you in training for King of the Non Sequiturs?

Just having some fun.

Eisboch

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H the K wrote:
Captain Marvel of Woodstock wrote:
Whoa - I would have loved to have seen that.

http://tinyurl.com/ltrj4d


It's always nice when jet jockeys in the military disregard the risks to
which they expose civilians with their "show-off" antics. It's no wonder
you would have loved to have been there.

I'm sure the plane in the photo was not as close to the building as a
telephoto lens makes it appear, but...had anything untoward happened,
the plane could have plowed into the structure and killed a lot of people.

Sometimes down at Virginia Beach you see navy pilots doing that sort of
stuff, but they are doing it for flight practice, and over the water,
not in the airspace in between the hotels.

Perhaps you should head over to Afghanistan so you can get your
vicarious kicks from the military's bombing of "suspected" terrorist
residences that turn out to have held no targets but innocent civilians.
I'm sure the sight of burned, broken, and roasted bodies would turn you
on, eh?


So AF1 with F16's in tow was OK in NYC? You really define yourself, WAFA.

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"D" wrote in message
...
H the K wrote:
Captain Marvel of Woodstock wrote:
Whoa - I would have loved to have seen that.

http://tinyurl.com/ltrj4d


It's always nice when jet jockeys in the military disregard the risks to
which they expose civilians with their "show-off" antics. It's no wonder
you would have loved to have been there.

I'm sure the plane in the photo was not as close to the building as a
telephoto lens makes it appear, but...had anything untoward happened, the
plane could have plowed into the structure and killed a lot of people.

Sometimes down at Virginia Beach you see navy pilots doing that sort of
stuff, but they are doing it for flight practice, and over the water, not
in the airspace in between the hotels.

Perhaps you should head over to Afghanistan so you can get your vicarious
kicks from the military's bombing of "suspected" terrorist residences
that turn out to have held no targets but innocent civilians.
I'm sure the sight of burned, broken, and roasted bodies would turn you
on, eh?


So AF1 with F16's in tow was OK in NYC? You really define yourself, WAFA.

Reminds me of landing at the old Hong Kong Airport. Look out the window of
the plane and the laundry hanging on poles off the apartment buildings look
like they are 50' from the wing tips.