Air Force Flyover honoring CV-19 responders and others Friday morning May 1st

[Okie4570]

I see T-1's, T-38's and T-6's all day everyday. If you wanna' do something, fly them all over Enid, Stillwater, Tulsa, Muskogee, Woodward ...

Exactly, not to be crabby or unappreciative.........what's this going to cost us during a time of economic hard times? Take that fuel money and buy some gift cards for first responders are something.

According to the story in the link, some of the planes will also be over Enid and Lawton as some part of the flyover. I need to find a spot without tall buildings along the route and take some pictures. Maybe even some video.

I guess I'll see if I can make that happen.

That's where some of those planes originate.

 

[DRC458]

Exactly, not to be crabby or unappreciative.........what's this going to cost us during a time of economic hard times? Take that fuel money and buy some gift cards for first responders are something.

Actually, the money would have been spent anyway. These flybys will just be incorporated as part of their training syllabus. Formation flying is in the curriculum anyway, so this will just be another training sortie for them. You'd be surprised at some of the 'stretches' that occur.

 

[DRC458]

I was targeted by the Air Force weekly while plowing fields after harvest every summer. One time I was strafed by an F-4 Phantom.

Me too. Not an F-4 but one of the trainers out of Vance AFB. It was common training practice to use farmers in fields in the counties around the base as practice targets for strafing and bombing runs back in the 80's. It was so common that it scared the hell out of the farmers and they visited with the base commander at Vance to get this practice shut down. Quite unnerving to watch a plane coming at you head on just a little higher than the tractor seat, or coming in from behind unexpectedly.
In the 2000's it was common to see the trainers from Vance making missile runs on the power plant east of the base I worked at. Part of my job was environmental checks on the 500' tall stacks for emissions. I've posted pics on here in the past of pilots rolling out at my level after making a practice run close enough you could see helmets in the cockpit.

Highly inappropriate and against all regs. I know it happens, but it never should. I personally know of at least one career that was ended because of a (too) low level flight. There are designated areas where that is allowed, and they ain't around here. There is (or was) one across the far western Oklahoma Panhandle.



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[HeyEng]

Actually, the money would have been spent anyway. These flybys will just be incorporated as part of their training syllabus. Formation flying is in the curriculum anyway, so this will just be another training sortie for them. You'd be surprised at some of the 'stretches' that occur.

Or even worse, when you get to the end of the fiscal year but still have "hours" to fly out. I couldn't tell you how many hours I spent spinning circles in the sky burning 25,000 pounds of Jet A per hour just to keep the same hours the next year. If the average person knew how much waste there is, well....they won't do anything, just sit on the computer and be pissed off about it.

 

[dennishoddy]

The Blue Angels along with the Thunderbirds are doing a live flyover of NYC right now.

 

[TedKennedy]

Actually, the money would have been spent anyway. These flybys will just be incorporated as part of their training syllabus. Formation flying is in the curriculum anyway, so this will just be another training sortie for them. You'd be surprised at some of the 'stretches' that occur.

Those Flyboys are probably showing respect to all the folks facing infection, not just "first responders".

 

[DRC458]

Or even worse, when you get to the end of the fiscal year but still have "hours" to fly out. I couldn't tell you how many hours I spent spinning circles in the sky burning 25,000 pounds of Jet A per hour just to keep the same hours the next year. If the average person knew how much waste there is, well....they won't do anything, just sit on the computer and be pissed off about it.

How true ... use it or lose it.

Those Flyboys are probably showing respect to all the folks facing infection, not just "first responders".

You totally missed the point.

 

[TedKennedy]

You totally missed the point.

You totally missed the sarcasm.

 

[TerryMiller]

Highly inappropriate and against all regs. I know it happens, but it never should. I personally know of at least one career that was ended because of a (too) low level flight. There are designated areas where that is allowed, and they ain't around here. There is (or was) one across the far western Oklahoma Panhandle.



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Something like that in the Panhandle goes back to the '40's. That's how Boise City in Cimarron County got bombed by WWII bombers on a training mission.

After that deal, I wonder if the city of Boise City decided to "blackout" some lights.

 

[ignerntbend]

Those were fake bombs

Something like that in the Panhandle goes back to the '40's. That's how Boise City in Cimarron County got bombed by WWII bombers on a training mission.

After that deal, I wonder if the city of Boise City decided to "blackout" some lights.

Those were fake bombs but the mayor still got on the radio like Winston Churchill and explained that they could still put someone’s eye out.