Jet fighters

[sethfan]

Wow today here where i live is what is called webn fireworks nite and we have this year have had jet fighters flting low over the area all day i even got to see a stealth fighter a couple of time's

it was reall really neat but really loud too but they have been flying over all day they was flying was flying really low too not like the normal airplanes that always fly over i mean you could see the marking on them as they flew by

ok sorry not a exciting thread but it was really exciting and cool for me to see i never saw any before and today i must have seen like 20 or 30 of them probably repeats not a total number but thats how many times i seen them once several flew over at the same time that was really cool mostly they flew over one at a time

so just thought i'd share i'm going back out to watch the firworks and the jets later

[Faggitt]

No No No, don't go back out. Stay here and tell us about it. You can see fireworks anytime.

[Billyga]

Take videos. Recently on Chris Pirillo's blog, he had a video of the Navy team (can't remember their name) practicing over his lake house near Seattle. You can probably search for it on his website. It's well worth watching. Anyway, I remember a few years ago a B1 bomber flew over a Nascar race in Atlanta when I was there. As much as I hate war and what the planes stand for, it is an awesome sight to see.

[Outsourced]

If you have not done so check out the Air and Space Musuem in Dayton. They have a large collection of aircraft and spacecraft. It is located on the Wright Patterson air force base.

[jake]

Originally Posted by Billyga

Take videos. Recently on Chris Pirillo's blog, he had a video of the Navy team (can't remember their name) practicing over his lake house near Seattle. You can probably search for it on his website. It's well worth watching. Anyway, I remember a few years ago a B1 bomber flew over a Nascar race in Atlanta when I was there. As much as I hate war and what the planes stand for, it is an awesome sight to see.

On average, how many queers attend a Nascar race?

Just curious.

[Faggitt]

They don't so much 'attend', as much as they 'attend to'. And that'll throw the numbers off everytime. I mean, talk about counting heads! Or, count the talking heads, what the hell do I care?

[GayPanther]

Note to trivialize sethfan's post, because it IS awesome machinery when seen up close.

But that being said, it makes me think of "tax dollars at work" = air shows or death.

Nothing like a good ol' fashioned parade though...

[Billyga]

Originally Posted by jake

On average, how many queers attend a Nascar race?

Just curious.

Probably just me that day. I'm not a regular at all. When the ticket is free, I go.

[Billyga]

The Blue Angels are Here!

August 2, 2006 at 5:52 pm · in Fun, Seattle · Comments · Related

I just heard ‘em fly overhead - the Blue Angels are here for Seafair! We’ll be organizing a party for friends this weekend (and I hope we don’t leave anybody out). Since Ponzi and I live on Lake Washington, we have front row seats on our deck for the full performance. I get to watch the pilots practice for the entire week, too - filming ‘em again for posterity. I’m usually not into airplanes and airshows, but the Blue Angels are a huge exception to the rule. Here’s last year’s Blue Angels video if you don’t think they’re worth catching in person. Go Navy! Haven’t seen the Thunderbirds yet.

[Outsourced]

Nice vid Billy. Thanks for sharing.

[Billyga]

Outsourced, I enjoyed it also. That would be a great way to spend a weekend sitting on the back porch getting drunk watching those crazy planes flying all around.

[Falstaff]

Originally Posted by Billyga

sitting on the back porch getting drunk watching those crazy planes flying all around.

Those Blue Angels are LOUD! They scare my cats so bad that I have messes to clean up afterwards.

I live about ten miles away -- too close -- to Miramar - "top gun", etc.

After a while, you get mighty tired of jet fighters zooming really low overhead all hours of day and night.
-F

[sethfan]

Originally Posted by Falstaff

Those Blue Angels are LOUD! They scare my cats so bad that I have messes to clean up afterwards.

I live about ten miles away -- too close -- to Miramar - "top gun", etc.

After a while, you get mighty tired of jet fighters zooming really low overhead all hours of day and night.
-F

i live real close to the greater cininnati northern kentucky internation airport i see and hear planes go by all day some are really low and load but these jet fighters was completely differant we all knew it at once the sound was at least ten times louder i would not want to live close to anyplace where those things fly all the time

the reg planes are bad enough but you get really use to them but when this thing went over it was completely differant but at least to me it was really neat when these jets went over but it was alos the first time i have ever seen anything like them also so close to me but they did make your body vibrate as they went over just really cool to me

[Outsourced]

Our local airport is about ½ mile from my place, but I rarely hear the planes coming and going unless it is a jet. You can sit in the backyard and watch the planes making their final approach before they disappear behind the hill. [The runways are atop the hill on reclaimed strip mine land]. The runway is about 4,100 feet long so most planes coming and going are small private planes or corporate jets.

I do hear the choppers heading out, though. Just now the EMS life flight helicopter flew over my house landing in the neighbors yard across the road. Everything in the places vibrated. It did the same when it left heading for a hospital away from town. That place seems to be cursed . Last month someone allegedly set the trailer afire [total loss]. They have been remodeling another one. Do not know what happened I heard nothing until the chopper flew over.