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re: Aviation baws... I just watched 2 fighters take off from Belle Chasse NAS
Posted on 10/3/20 at 8:11 pm to slacker130
Posted on 10/3/20 at 8:11 pm to slacker130
Freakin awesome.
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Posted on 10/3/20 at 8:55 pm to the LSUSaint
quote:New York is 1,160 miles from New Orleans. He'd have to AVERAGE 3,163 mph to do that.
My high school friend is a pilot and has been for 30 years. He claims he got scrambled from belle chase on night...some big threat in New York...
Apparently they get special orders for serious stuff where the limits of speed are taken off. He said he got there in like 22 minutes
Posted on 10/3/20 at 9:06 pm to slacker130
100% chance we do. D-Mo used to be in my unit. I was originally sent to UPT by S2 at BIX, but transferred to MXF.
ETA: I think this jibberish will make sense to you.
ETA: I think this jibberish will make sense to you.
This post was edited on 10/3/20 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 10/3/20 at 9:10 pm to Slippy
I saw it too! So cool
Posted on 10/3/20 at 9:14 pm to Slippy
Just went down the youtube rabbit hole wishing I could ride in one of these machines and found this... Corey Knebel Flies with the Blue Angels
It's cool to hear the pilot.
It's cool to hear the pilot.
Posted on 10/3/20 at 9:21 pm to HerkFlyer
I know D-mo & S2. I was at BIX more than a decade ago.
Both good dudes.
Both good dudes.
Posted on 10/3/20 at 9:33 pm to slacker130
Figured you knew them based on posts I’ve seen you make/a few interactions we’ve had here.
Did you use to post on Baseops under the same username?
Agree
Did you use to post on Baseops under the same username?
quote:
Both good dudes.
Agree
This post was edited on 10/3/20 at 9:41 pm
Posted on 10/3/20 at 9:33 pm to Slippy
Intercepting a UFO
Posted on 10/3/20 at 9:52 pm to HerkFlyer
I did until it was blocked on base. So lame
This post was edited on 10/3/20 at 9:53 pm
Posted on 10/3/20 at 10:08 pm to Slippy
They flew over my home in north Kenner. Dogs were going nuts and you could physically feel the presence of the fighters in the sky overhead - a heavy internal vibration.
Posted on 10/3/20 at 10:19 pm to VictoryHill
They have been active all week.
Posted on 10/3/20 at 10:41 pm to slacker130
That is wild, thx for sharing.
Posted on 10/3/20 at 10:53 pm to loogaroo
quote:
Just went down the youtube rabbit hole wishing I could ride in one of these machines and found this...
The guy from Smarter Every Day rode with the Thunderbirds, got to go out over the Gulf and go supersonic, and they were going to let him try for his 9g pin, but he pussed out after 7g, I think. Man, at that point, you tell the pilot to pull 9 on the next pass and just do that shite. It's very likely he'd NEVER meet another civilian the rest of his life that had that pin.
He also built a cannon that shoots supersonic baseballs.
That dude's job is fricking amazing.
This post was edited on 10/4/20 at 12:20 am
Posted on 10/3/20 at 11:14 pm to Slippy
I have an even stranger question if any Marine Aviation baws are on here. I used to live in BFE 45 miles Southwest of Montgomery. I saw V-22 Ospreys flying over my house or the hunting lease, (20 miles to the SE), all the time. Always headed SW if I recall. Would they be coming from Maxwell or Gunter in Montgomery for some reason?
Posted on 10/3/20 at 11:44 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Maybe it was DC
Posted on 10/3/20 at 11:52 pm to slacker130
quote:
F-15E
Just as a point of trivia - max takeoff weight (unclassified) of a F-15E (Strike version of the now venerable U.S. air superiority fighter of the latter decades of the Cold War) is about 81k pounds.
The workhorse heavy bomber of the United States during WWII was the B-17. The B-17G model had a maximum takeoff weight of 65.5k pounds (although by the end of the war, B-29s could take off twice that heavy, could fly faster, higher and further, with a pressurized cabin and fewer crew members - that's how rapidly combat aircraft technology advanced during the war).
This post was edited on 10/3/20 at 11:54 pm
Posted on 10/3/20 at 11:55 pm to Slippy
quote:
Any idea what they might be doing?
It is called training.
You just don’t hop into the pilots seat and fly like a video game.
It can take several hundred flight hours to get certified to fly certain aircraft. The Air Force isn’t the Army where they just give you a gun and say good luck. The Air Force already has to train you a little more especially when they give you a military Jet to fly that cost several million dollars.
Posted on 10/4/20 at 12:06 am to mulletproof
quote:
I used to live in BFE 45 miles Southwest of Montgomery. I saw V-22 Ospreys flying over my house or the hunting lease, (20 miles to the SE), all the time.
Probably not Marine V-22s, I would think they’re from Hurlburt and are AF spec ops.
Posted on 10/4/20 at 12:09 am to Tarps99
quote:
It can take several hundred flight hours to get certified to fly certain aircraft. The Air Force isn’t the Army where they just give you a gun and say good luck. The Air Force already has to train you a little more especially when they give you a military Jet to fly that cost several million dollars.
frick that. I've got 30 hours in Microsoft Flight Simulator and I've seen the Blue Angels fly. Twice.
I'm practically a veteran combat pilot at this point.
Posted on 10/4/20 at 9:48 am to TigerstuckinMS
Anyone still them practice dog fighting out over Black Bay?
Used to see some cool flying out there while fishing.
Used to see some cool flying out there while fishing.
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