Allen,

Great share. Thanks.

Once went by the crags north of the lake above hwy 90 (point Echo maybe?)
well below a group of climbers as we were at 200 agl and 450kts+.

One of the routes - Tailhook, maybe - had a leg that transited Lake Abert
from SE to NW (south central Oregon on your Rand-McNally road atlas). The
SE shore of the lake abuts a high rim and the approach to the rim was a
gentle up-slope, low-level leg. It was always fun to do a barrel roll after
passing the rim since there was quite a sudden drop-off from the rim level
to the lake level.

Everyone on the lift was cheering them on though.

So much depends on the context of the moment. There have been two or three
times since 9/11 where pointy-nosed military aircraft have overflown UC
Berkeley's Memorial Stadium in conjunction with the National Anthem just
before a Cal home football game, and the crowd has LOVED it.

Yes - even in ultra-left Berkeley!

--
Mike Kanze

"John Kerry has promised to take this country back from the wealthy. Who
better than the guy worth $700 million to take the country back? See, he
knows how the wealthy think. He can spy on them at his country club, at his
place in Palm Beach, at his house in the Hamptons. He's like a mole for the
working man."

- Jay Leno


"Allen Epps" wrote in message
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Paul Michael Brown,

The OB-16 route was a low-level high speed (360 knots +) training route
that
worked its way through the canyons of the John Day River system in
eastern
Oregon, generally south-southeastward into northwestern Nevada, ending at
the B-16 target area near the Fallon (Nevada) Naval Air Station.

IIRC this route was later renamed to VR-1354 for us Prowler guys and
the IR-346 for the IMC flyers. Could be wrong about that.

The route I mostly remember fondly was the VR-1355. Once went by the
crags north of the lake above hwy 90 (point Echo maybe?) well below a
group of climbers as we were at 200 agl and 450kts+. At the Whidbey
airshow that year a group of boy scouts came up when I was standing by
the jet and apparently that was them, and said it made their trip. I
was on the Brooks ski lift at Stevens Pass go up to ski the bowl once
and had a section of VAQ-138 Prowlers go over at max warp, one inverted
pulling over the ridge, the other knife edge. You saw the clue light
come on when they saw the lodge and realized they were east of the
route and over a "noise sensitive". Everyone on the lift was cheering
them on though.

Pugs