Fighter planes over Metrowest

[fshalor]

This is good training. And makes 60+ thousand people remember for a second that they are Americans by Damn and we have Big Air.

If I wanted to gripe about something training wise gone wrong, it would be troops on base going around with no arms. They should be sleeping with their weapons at all times while on active duty here or abroad.

 

[NHKevin]

This^

I remember a Nascar race at Loudon back in the mid 2000's, when they had a flyover by single B1 flanked by two F-15's from the Vermont Air National Guard. They came in together low & slow, when they were over the track they went full throttle, the F-15's broke off and turned straight up with the afterburners spewing flames. Still one of the loudest things I've ever heard. Our ears were so numbed by that, when the race cars soon fired up, we thought they were running mufflers.

When did VTANG fly F-15s?

 

[Rob Boudrie]

Rob Boudrie must be a Chargers fan.

Not a sports fan at all. I don't understand the sense of ownership fans have with their home town team - it's just a private corporation in which they have zero ownership interest. Getting excited about the home team willing is no any different than getting excited when GE has a good quarterly report and you are not even a stockholder just because they are headquartered locally.

 

[JJ4]

I'm totally good with this right up until the point they refuse to do the same for a local high school game.

They do flyovers for town-sized parades. The memorial day parade in Enfield, CT always has a flyover of some kind - probably from the ANG at Bradley airport.

 

[Jason Flare]

It would be cool if there was some way we could let 60 thousand people know that the founders thought a national army was against our interests and by its very existence we would stick its nose in other country’s business.

 

[rwl1955]

My GF lives right in back of Barnes, when they take off with afterburners the house shakes. Her Street is parallel with the runway.

 

[Dennis in MA]

Chinese paratroops dropping into Spencer, MA....

Back in the early 90's, when I was in college, the best BBS for porn (we are talking scanned Playboy, et al, photos) in the area was a line in Spencer, MA. Them Chinese are always loving some good 90's full-shrub scanned porn pix. LOL

Roommate was a computer geek. We had a 14.4 modem when everyone else had 2600. LOL

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Two of the intruders. They flew over the cuckoos nest known as the 'ham several times. I thought they were after me for a while!

Pic was taken around 12:50pm but they'd made several passes already in the previous 20 minutes. I suppose they were "hanging around" until it was time to fly over the game.

I tried to get a video on one of the passes but all I got was the noise. Tree branches and crappy camera prevented a good shot.

For fighters, it's easy. We had a wave-off due to wind at a PAwsox game a few years ago for Navy para-jumper team. You could see the plane circling.

SIL (youngest son, oldest son, yada yada) works at Whiteman in MO. The hard one is the B2. Not the easiest thing to be circling for a while, but thankfully there is not a thing near KC. Expect to see at least one at the game on Sunday. It's either that or some Reserve A10's.

I remember a fly by up at loudon 15 plus years ago at the nascar race. 2- B2 bombers at full afterburner at fly by, it was unreal.
The B2 is a mean looking plane.
I also miss seeing the constant fighter jet activity overhead when the Weymouth Airbase was open back in the day, as a kid it was very awe inspiring.

I wonder what they were doing there in the first place. It costs a S-ton to run one. Sending 2 to Louden from Whiteman is an expensive and long trip, unless it was in conjunction with them working on something. There isn't a base where they are actively held anywhere on the East Coast. (I believe it's pretty much Whiteman, Andrews for testing, Guam, I think, something in Europe that they wind up never using and probably 2 in Alaska. Since we can bomb stuff deep in Sandland from Missouri, there isn't a need to have them everywhere.)

Also - I heard a rumor that Otis was going full AF instead of just Guard. Anyone else hear anything????

 

[CCW]

The timing over my house matched right up with the 1PM game start time.

I do have a problem with this. Thousands in taxpayer dollars are being spent to augment an entertainment performance being put on not for the public good, but to make money for those selling the entertainment. Why should I pay to subsidize this activity?

I've heard before that these flights are part of standard training hours the pilots would be flying regardless of where they went....

 

[Rob Boudrie]

I'm going to suggest that USPSA try to get a flyover for the 2019 nationals. Maybe something different like a flyover by a fueling tanker

 

[Obie1]

Not a sports fan at all. I don't understand the sense of ownership fans have with their home town team - it's just a private corporation in which they have zero ownership interest. Getting excited about the home team willing is no any different than getting excited when GE has a good quarterly report and you are not even a stockholder just because they are headquartered locally.

Rob, you need to get out more. Rooting for the local sports team (or that of one's alma mater) is as old as the Battle of Thermopylae. At very least, it's a good excuse to spend a few hours on the couch with a beer without feeling guilty about not replacing that leaky sillcock. And if you are waiting for a good earnings report from GE, you are probably a Brown's fan.

 

[fishgutzy]

F-15s are from Western MA. BTW, those griping about the fly over, it's not a joy ride. It's legit training...they would be flying regardless, but adding a fly over into the mix is good PR. As we in the Air Wing used to say, that "noise" is the sound of freedom.

When I was stationed at Bitburg AB (F15 base) in Germany, we had an F15 flyover before every home football game. But these flyovers were a precision full afterburner vertical climb right over the field. Loud as hell. Fun to watch. Much more interesting than a formation flyby.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

And if you are waiting for a good earnings report from GE, you are probably a Brown's fan.

One might do better waiting for Godot.

 

[namedpipes]

Not a sports fan at all. I don't understand the sense of ownership fans have with their home town team - it's just a private corporation in which they have zero ownership interest. Getting excited about the home team willing is no any different than getting excited when GE has a good quarterly report and you are not even a stockholder just because they are headquartered locally.

Also not a sports fan but you're off base on this one.

It's more akin to get excited about Groots or something, despite not having an ownership interest in the movie.

 

[dingbat]

Not a sports fan at all. I don't understand the sense of ownership fans have with their home town team - it's just a private corporation in which they have zero ownership interest. Getting excited about the home team willing is no any different than getting excited when GE has a good quarterly report and you are not even a stockholder just because they are headquartered locally.

Green Bay Packers Prove That Public Ownership of Organizations is Economical
Go Pack!

 

[Dennis in MA]

I am Groot!

Yeah. I said it. And no swear-filter is gonna stop me!

 

[AHM]

The obvious next step here is to request a flyover next time there's a pro-rights rally or a Monadnock shoot.

Just hoist a blinking blue light up into a tree.

Everyone can just pretend it flew over,
and it'll have a smaller carbon footprint than an actual flyover.

 

[jayhitek]

Not a sports fan at all. I don't understand the sense of ownership fans have with their home town team - it's just a private corporation in which they have zero ownership interest. Getting excited about the home team willing is no any different than getting excited when GE has a good quarterly report and you are not even a stockholder just because they are headquartered locally.

Rob, I'll help convert you to the dark side and see the fans point of view..
HSA sends in a 3 man team into a 3 gun shooting competition in Texas.. You're not one of the team members.. But you're probably going to root for the members of your home club to do good or win it.. Technically the outcome has nothing to do with you as you're not it.. But i would guess you would want your local team to do good and bragging rights.

 

[GaryO]

All I know is that they were loud as hell, Mrs.O and i were at Lenscrafters in Framingham when they came over and it made the building rattle.

 

[rkwjunior]

They were probably thinking of a B-1

Yes. The B1. My bad

 

[Mr.E]

Not a sports fan at all. I don't understand the sense of ownership fans have with their home town team - it's just a private corporation in which they have zero ownership interest. Getting excited about the home team willing is no any different than getting excited when GE has a good quarterly report and you are not even a stockholder just because they are headquartered locally.

Agree with this. I find the smarter ones I talk to follow local sports more as a way to have a conversation with someone else (networking) that might also have a high probability of being a "sports followers". The lower intelligence mouth breathers I find do it as a source of "local pride, my time is better than your team, my town is better than your town", completely unintelligible trash talk. These are the arm chair quarter backs that played 2 games growing up and now they are expert coaches and players (applicable to all sports by the way). These are the bums that keep me away (although football and baseball are so boring in their own right I wouldn't watch regardless).

 

[Rob Boudrie]

I find the smarter ones I talk to follow local sports more as a way to have a conversation with someone else (networking)

I'm not one to hang by the watercooler mumbling stuff like "there ya go" and "how bout them <sportsteam>".

 

[namedpipes]

I'm not one to hang by the watercooler mumbling stuff like "there ya go" and "how bout them <sportsteam>".

Frankly, that is one of the most arrogant and idiotic things I've read on this site. I hope it was /sarcasm

 

[-B-]

BFD NBD

 

[AHM]

I'm not one to hang by the watercooler ...

Frankly, that is one of the most arrogant and idiotic things I've read on this site. I hope it was /sarcasm

Whereas you, you're only in it for the waters?

 

[namedpipes]

Whereas you, you're only in it for the waters?

Something like that.

In fairness, RB consistently delivers good information. Just not this time.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

In fairness, RB consistently delivers good information. Just not this time.

Technically speaking, that was good information because it was accurate and truthful about my behavior

 

[Bonesinium]

I’m thouroughly lost at what y’all are talking about now.

 

[rwl1955]

When did VTANG fly F-15s?

F-16's I believe. I read they are supposed to be replaced by the F-35 but the Burlington moonbats are protesting. They 're not big on the Military or freedom.
"
"BURLINGTON, Vt. — The Vermont Air National Guard says 20 F-35 jets are coming to Burlington International Airport next year, despite opposition from local leaders.

Local 22 reports the jets will begin arriving in September 2019. The planes will replace a fleet of older F-16 jets.

Col. Adam Rice says the base has "$100 million in facility upgrades under contract." Upgrades include an operations building, a maintenance hangar and mission simulators.

Officials in South Burlington voted against basing the jets at the airport. Burlington passed a resolution earlier this year requesting the Air Force use an aircraft quieter than the F-35.

The resolutions are not legally binding over the Air Force, which is part of the Department of Defense. Vermont’s congressional delegation supports the jets' basing in Burlington."
Save Our Skies/ Stop The F-35 - Protect Vermont

 

[Dennis in MA]

How about someone donate a bunch of ammo to them as well. LOL.

 

[rwl1955]

How about someone donate a bunch of ammo to them as well. LOL.

How about some Nukes?