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Today's Airshow

Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
edited October 2019 in General Discussion
My office is less than a mile from the airport and from my window I can observe aircraft as they turn and do their touch & goes. Today I have had Harriers,I assume from Cherry Point MAS, and now I have a big Navy twin engine which I think is a P8 anti sub plane. Yesterday an Air Force C130 was here for a long while. I see Air Force One a lot and a while back a gigantic C5 Galaxy was coming over very low. I went outside and it was thrilling to have that monster flying so slow and so close. I have seen only one F15 but I guess they stay closer to Goldsboro and Seymore Johnson AFB. I used to see a lot of them when I would ride my motorcycle to Goldsboro to eat at Wilber's Bar B Q. Life is GOOD.
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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ricci , I live under one of the take off/ landing flight paths at Seymour Johnson . I am about three miles from the base . We drive out to the runway sometimes to watch the f15?s take off on night missions . Awesome sight to see on on full afterburner going almost straight up into the night sky . Going to have to figure out how to post a video .
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I few into Lambert field in St. Louis once on the way east, and parked on a taxi way north of the runways was, I guess a 747 with a space shuttle riding piggy back. That was a real thrill. I see Harriers almost daily out of Kirkland and those planes that dump slurry on forest fires pretty frequently. That's all I got.
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    pulsarnc wrote:
    Ricci , I live under one of the take off/ landing flight paths at Seymour Johnson . I am about three miles from the base . We drive out to the runway sometimes to watch the f15?s take off on night missions . Awesome sight to see on on full afterburner going almost straight up into the night sky . Going to have to figure out how to post a video .

    Hey is Wilbers Bar B Q open?? I read the government got a hold of them.
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You see any Osprey's?

    I was one of the 1st guys to HALO from one. Lets just say it was interesting ;)
    RLTW

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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ricci Wright wrote:
    pulsarnc wrote:
    Ricci , I live under one of the take off/ landing flight paths at Seymour Johnson . I am about three miles from the base . We drive out to the runway sometimes to watch the f15?s take off on night missions . Awesome sight to see on on full afterburner going almost straight up into the night sky . Going to have to figure out how to post a video .

    Hey is Wilbers Bar B Q open?? I read the government got a hold of them.

    The revenuers closed them down this year.

    Great BBQ, I took my Dad there about 5 years ago.
    RLTW

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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wilber?s is shutdown due to nonpayment of property and sales taxes . When the highway 70 bypass opened a while back it took s huge toll on traffic headed to the beach in the summertime. The beach traffic was a huge part of the business. Supposedly a group of investors have bought the restaurant with plans to reopen . They were awaiting approval from the courts and tax departments., but that deadline is two months past due. No idea if they will ever reopen.
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sam06 wrote:
    You see any Osprey's?

    I was one of the 1st guys to HALO from one. Lets just say it was interesting ;)

    I thought you super HALO'ed from the Space Shuttle, landed in the Osprey, donned diving gear and then HALO/dived from the Osprey into the Bermuda Triangle. :mrgreen::mrgreen:
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ricci Wright wrote:
    Sam06 wrote:
    You see any Osprey's?

    I was one of the 1st guys to HALO from one. Lets just say it was interesting ;)

    I thought you super HALO'ed from the Space Shuttle, landed in the Osprey, donned diving gear and then HALO/dived from the Osprey into the Bermuda Triangle. :mrgreen::mrgreen:

    SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    Thats a secret.
    RLTW

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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ospreys come thru fairly regularly. They hit the Mt. Olive airport on thursdays to practice touch and goes Strange looking bird when it transitions from copter to plane and back
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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