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Sightings for February 6 (Read 173 times)
Feb 7
th
, 2007 at 12:18am
rootbeer
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I have a few from today and a few from a few days ago.
I guess it was Sunday. Nellis was unusually quiet, maybe all the jetjocks were watching the Stupor Bowl. I saw a B-52 take out of there. That's a pretty big airplane. About half an hour later I saw a C-5 claw it's way into the sky. That's a
REALLY
big airplane!! It appeared to be moving so slowly from my vantage point, which was maybe 1-1/2 miles away. It climbed out, then took a shallow turn to the northeast. Soon, it was gone...
Today was much more intense. The '15s and '16s were screamin' as usual. I saw several flights of them rip into the wild blue and head northwest, as if on their way to KINS. I saw a slew of A-10s doing their thing, too. Later, I heard a loud noise and looked way up to see four T-Birds in a tight diamond formation. They hit the smoke for a few seconds, then the plane on the right pulled back a bit and did a single axis roll. I guess he just felt like a nut right then. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't, you know...
There were three F-22s that tore out of there fast and close on each other's heels, again heading toward where KINS would be.
I was just about home around 1600. I was out near Fallon NAS and saw two F-18s playing grabtushy to the east of US95. There is a bombing range out there. I have seen them practicing in the past. No practice today, though. At least none that I saw...
That is all...
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Feb 7
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, 2007 at 12:21am
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I always enjoy these entries, but you need to bring a camera next time.
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, 2007 at 8:40am
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Agreed. Some pictures would be nice
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Feb 7
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, 2007 at 11:29am
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beaky wrote
on Feb 7
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, 2007 at 12:21am:
I always enjoy these entries, but you need to bring a camera next time.
Isak922 wrote
on Feb 7
th
, 2007 at 8:40am:
Agreed. Some pictures would be nice
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Feb 8
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, 2007 at 2:01am
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I think I am going to break bad in a few days and buy a digital camera. I saw an 8Mpx one at Waltermart for 200 bucks. It had a 5X zoom on it. I don't know if it had any digital zoom capability. The problem with them is that they have so much going on inside, it would take a klutz like me a year to figure it all out...
emachines T6212; AMD Athlon64 3800+ (2.40 GHz; Venice core); Allied AL-B500E 500W power supply; 2048Mb PC3200 DDR400; Westinghouse LCM-22w2 wide-screen LCD monitor; eVGA e-GeForce 7900 GS KO X16 PCIe video card; Logitech Extreme 3D Pro flight controller;&&Cyber Acoustics CA-4100 4-channel digital sound with 5 speakers; 300 Gb external hard drive in an enclosure; Windows XP Home; 3 Mb/s AT&T/Yahoo! DSL service; Microsoft Intellipoint trackball; Supergate EC-2000 multi-media keyboard. Epson CX-7800 Stylus all-in-one printer. Canon PowerShot S3 IS digital camera with 1 Gb SD card.&&Next thing: A CH Products USB 2.0 Flight Yoke (for enhanced realism).
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