Fighter planes over Metrowest

[crazymjb]

Can you point us to a desolate range, several hundred miles in any given direction, so that fighter planes traveling in excess of Mach's number will have room enough to fly for more than a couple minutes before being forced to effectively double back?

Are you equally concerned about the commercial airlines that are flying solely between the most densely populated areas in the world?

Not to mention their primary mission is air intercept in this area, granted there are other ways to train for that, but nothing like the real thing.

Who is this wet blanket sissy?

Mike

 

[AHM]

I hear that house prices are highest in the Lexington neighborhoods
right off of the end of the runways at Hanscom,
because of the feeling of security and well-being
engendered by the occasional military flight.

Where exactly would you propose airplanes train in the greater Northeastern United States if they cannot fly "over populated areas?"

At least twice I've seen a pair of Warthogs flying in tandem at K-Mart.
They were obviously practicing their roller coaster flight profile
where they hide behind Killington,
pop up only long enough over the Glades
to hose down the T-72's in the Snowshed parking lot,
then duck behind Snowden before any ZSU-23-4's can slew to engage.

Several times I've seen fighters tearing around the Adirondacks over Raquette Lake.
The last time they even chuffed out a flare or two.
Which luckily went out before they fell into the Forest Preserve.