Saw an Interesting thing this weekend at the airport

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"Marco Leon" mmleon(at)yahoo.com wrote:

I've wondered why there weren't any more flying F-4's out there in civilian
hands. An article I read a while back mentioned that they are apparently
maintenance hogs with a high maintenance-to-flying hour ratio. I would
imagine that there would not be many civilian Tomcats for the same reason.
Right behind that reason is the deep gov't red tape complicating the tack of
getting one in the first place.

Marco Leon

For openers: Their operating costs approximate that of a mid-size
twin-engined airliner!

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On 5 Dec 2005 14:14:14 -0800, "Denny" wrote:

...there they were coming from the west
in a battle line, tree top high and pedal to the metal... As they
flashed onto the airbase they lit the afterburners...

About 20 years ago I was working at NAS Lakehurst when the Blue Angels
arrived on a Friday for that weekend's airshow. We (everybody in the
engineering building) heard them coming first, roaring balls to the
wall maybe 50' over our roof. Sounded like the building was going to
come down! Everybody ran outside to watch a 10 minute impromptu
airshow they put on before they landed... much better than the
[public] airshow the next day.

-Dana


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I told this story before, but it's worth repeating.

The Thunderbirds were at Hansom Airforce base (BED, in MA) , in ythe
late 60's or early 70's. I had a handheld av band receiver with me, we
watched them do the walk, mount their airplanes, start up, and pull
out, all very impressive of course. Then I heard "Uh, Hanscom Ground,
Thunderbird One."

"This is Hanscom Ground, go ahead, Thunderbird One."

"Uh, Hanscom Ground, how do I get to Runway two three?"

"Left turn, Thunderbird One, then . . ." and he guided them to the
runway.

Of course, the best part was when they took position on the runway, and
we heard "Hanscom Ground, Thunderbirds are going to Tach 1 frequency
now."

"Frequency change approved," the tower said.

And then we learned again what precision flying was all about.

BTW, they did not need directions back to the tiedowns, either.


That was one of my two best airshow experiences.