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Airplane Touch & Go's

Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
I have always loved aircraft and especially military types. Here in Wilmington, N.C. we have a lot of planes doing touch and go's. Air Force One shows up seems like every couple of weeks and fly's around and around and passes low right over the shop. We have some F18's from Cherry Point I guess as well as my favorite the Herriers. Damn they sound good.
Yesterday I had a treat I don't usually get. A F15 Eagle shooting up from the airport at maybe a 60 degree angle and really getting it on.The plane looked to be painted flat black and was an awesome sight. Probably from Seymour Johnson AFB in Goldboro, we don'd see many down here on the coast. The "Sound of Freedom".
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    IIRC, the F15-E attack version is painted a darker color than the air superiority types. We see them once a year or so as they stop and say hello at the local AFB.

    Aluminum Overcast is coming to town tomorrow. The field they use is about 1/2 a mile from my office. Will go down and see her to be sure.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,499 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Buy a ride, Don. It's a bucket list item you will never regret.

    Edit to add: as a student and later a jet instructor, I have done just over a bazillion T&Gs.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My office looks down at Dobbins ARB. We see a lot of C5's and C130 doing touch and go. And a host of other things.
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to spend a lot of time in Maretta doing work for Lockheed. Is the Big Chicken still standing??quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    My office looks down at Dobbins ARB. We see a lot of C5's and C130 doing touch and go. And a host of other things.
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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have lived next to SJAB all my life,can drive up to the fence next to the runway and sit and watch them take off and land .Quite a sight at night when they lite off the afterburner .THis weekend is the Wings over Wayne air show. Blue Angels ,Black Daggers parachute team Canadian CF18 demo team P51 mustang and a ton of others
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wilber's Bar B Q ???quote:Originally posted by pulsarnc
    I have lived next to SJAB all my life,can drive up to the fence next to the runway and sit and watch them take off and land .Quite a sight at night when they lite off the afterburner .THis weekend is the Wings over Wayne air show. Blue Angels ,Black Daggers parachute team Canadian CF18 demo team P51 mustang and a ton of others
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Ricci Wright
    I used to spend a lot of time in Maretta doing work for Lockheed. Is the Big Chicken still standing??quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    My office looks down at Dobbins ARB. We see a lot of C5's and C130 doing touch and go. And a host of other things.



    In 1993 it was damaged by a storm and they wanted to tear it down.
    There was a HUGE outcry from everyone and it was rebuilt. (Among the people that did not want it torn down were pilots who use it as a visual reference when approaching ATL and Dobbins) In 2006 it was almost hit by a tornado that did damage the KMart across the street and bunch of other stuff all the way down to Windy Hill. This winter they totally gutted the restaurant portion of the building and rebuilt it. It just opened back for business this week.
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