Subdeacon Joe Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 An air show with sonic booms and live fire! So coooooooool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 no air shows round here lately that I know of, but saw 2 F-16s doing low fly overs this past weekend. Kinda makes you wonder what's going on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Logan #12252 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Thankx, that was realy great.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taquila Tab, Sass #25048 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Great air show featuring one of my top-five favorite planes of all time. Being an AF brat I loved mostly all of them but my top-five favorite list is: F-15 F-4 XB-70 B-58 O-2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blasted Cap Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Saw on the news last night the Blue Angels are coming to Sioux Falls next year. Been a while since I got a chance to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Foolery U.S.M. #2348 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I remember sonic booms a lot as a kid. Edwards AFB was 100 miles north of us and the planes would cross the coast heading home. When the Shuttle came into Edwards we'd get the booms also. Saw airshows at Edwards with F-104's TF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Many years ago, NAS Point Mugu did quite a bit of live-fire at their air shows. Also a few sonic booms too. Not any more Cheers, LG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I remember sonic booms a lot as a kid. Edwards AFB was 100 miles north of us and the planes would cross the coast heading home. When the Shuttle came into Edwards we'd get the booms also. Saw airshows at Edwards with F-104's TF The BOOMS are pretty much an every day thing here Along with the daily "air-show" we see from Plant 42. LG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Hand Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I remember the: F-100 Super Saber F-101 Voodo F-102 Delta Dart F-104 Star Fighter F-105 Thunderchief Was there ever a F-103? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Balz, SASS#46599 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 no air shows round here lately that I know of, but saw 2 F-16s doing low fly overs this past weekend. Kinda makes you wonder what's going on... Budget cuts, we won't see much military at air shows for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacknife Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 They had lots of air shows in Vietnam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I remember the: F-100 Super Saber F-101 Voodo F-102 Delta Dart F-104 Star Fighter F-105 Thunderchief Was there ever a F-103? Kinda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker, SASS #55963 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 BH F-102 was the Delta Dagger, The F106 was the delta Dart. And there was a F107 concept plane with only 3 being made ...It was a follow on to the F100 Super Sabre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancho Roy Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Down here on Cape Cod in the early 60s, we had Otis AFB. F101 Voodos were flying all over the place and breaking sound barriers weekly. As a little kit it used to scare the crap out of me. Just off the coast they sunk an old freighter and used to live fire on it with F86 Sabers and then F4 Fanthoms. This ship was less than a mile off shore! We also had "No-Mans Island where the heavy bombers would drop live bombs. Talk about a GREAT airshow! But last summer I saw the new F22 fly..............Simply out of this world flying. That plane does the absolute impossible (Check out YouTube) And then of course, the best airshow flying of all time................Bob Hoover in a Rockwell Strike Commander, twin prop business plane! (You gotta check this out on YouTube!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancho Roy Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Bob Hoover videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bob+hoover+shrike+commander&oq=Bob+Hoover&aq=2&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=1326l3528l0l6985l10l10l0l2l2l0l251l1227l1.5.2l8l0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 The B58 was the baddest looking bomber ever. Looked like it was going supersonic while sitting on the tarmac. I bet the Russians said "Holy Crapski!" the first time they saw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klondike SASS Life #29713 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 The B58 was the baddest looking bomber ever. Looked like it was going supersonic while sitting on the tarmac. I bet the Russians said "Holy Crapski!" the first time they saw it. At Carswell (as a military brat) we were always hearing the rumors that it was hard for the chase planes to stay up with the Hustler. It was a super bad looking bird, both on the ground and in the air. I loved being a kid in the Air Force, I got to see us (the USA) change from deregibles, props, jets, and super sonic. At Kelly we saw what was and what was coming, it was a super neat time and some of the finest planes the USA ever put in the air. Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Pony Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 The Hustler was always a way sexy looking bomber, only surpassed by the B1 to my mind. Dad bought me a model of it when we were at Holloman AFB in NM in the mid 60's and I painted it flat black which is how I think it should have been made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Mushman Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Many years ago, NAS Point Mugu did quite a bit of live-fire at their air shows. Also a few sonic booms too. Not any more Cheers, LG Lumpy, Right on about the sonic booms, as well as the variety and qualtiy of the airmanship skills displayed by an array of our planes in those days! I was there too, and my Dad was Ops O at Mugu during a couple years of that period (also a GREAT time for the Dodgers!!). The "live fire' stuff in the late '50s/early '60s at Mugu was a a bit of a slight of hand (for safety) in that all the "bombs" that were "dropped" and the "strafing" in the Lagoon were charges "staged" by EOD and initiated in time sequence with the aircraft passes. It was well done and I had great insight from my Dad. This was one more major influence on my childhood desire to fly for the Navy!! Harvey PS. You gonna shoot with us this weekend? Haven't seen you and Ima in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Foolery U.S.M. #2348 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Saw Bob Hoover come into Torrance in his Aero Commander years ago. He touched the right wheel, then the left , then the right, then down. No air show, he was just having fun. TF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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