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Everything is quiet here today on the Virginia peninsula but yesterday, while on a water stop during my lunch time bicycle ride, I was 2-3 miles off the east end of the Langley AFB runway and watched 4 F-22s, 2 f-16s and 2 all black t-38s on approach. Later in the day, I saw an E-2C doing touch and go at Newport News/Williamsburg airport and caught a glimpse of ATAC's derelict Draken sitting in it's usual spot next to a hangar.

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It's air show time, and this Prowler was an unexpected addition. We were told that since we have a recently-retired Prowler on display, the Navy was going to send a couple of Growlers, but no Prowler. This showed up, the Growlers have yet to arrive, supposedly due to the weather...

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It's air show time, and this Prowler was an unexpected addition. We were told that since we have a recently-retired Prowler on display, the Navy was going to send a couple of Growlers, but no Prowler. This showed up, the Growlers have yet to arrive, supposedly due to the weather...

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Awesome shot...love a good prowler

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Was out photographing a 7 on 7 (American) Football tournament today at a high school and got buzzed by a pair of Seahawks. They were somewhat distant, but I was able to grab a quick (kinda blurry) shot of one of them which I will post later. Very rare sight around here...possibly on their way going to or coming back from a Memorial Day flyover somewhere.

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Those two specks are AH-64A's (old pos ones), range control in front of us, with another truck on the tank trail all headed to the same objective. Objective may or may not have been a BBQ.....

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phantom,,

WOW !!! Those are WAY too cool..thanks for showing them..All I saw was a Eurocopter chasing a smaller Helicopter..No idea what was going on !

Is that FAT ALBERT or ERNIE? I cannot tell... :rolleyes:

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That herc is one of our new J models out of CFB Trenton.

Airshow at Waterloo regional airport. Very small airshow, just Canadian stuff but considering how small our air force is it was not too bad.

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not really what i saw today..but a selection from the past month or so.

Mexican Air Force 727

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Luftwaffe A-310

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1 of 2 Blackwater CASA 212 that transited through

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an Emirates A380 that diverted due to low fuel

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and my favorite...a Mock-up of an RQ-4 set up for the Security and Defence trade show..they were trying to sell them to the Government..hence the fake Canadian markings.

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Sean

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Just had what looked like a C-47 fly over with D-day stripes on it. It was flying low and directly overhead but I could see that it had nose art on it. Kind of surprised to see it as we have been having some big thunder storms rolling through. Wish I had a camera with me.

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I'm not sure about our bird - she should have been there by Friday, but with the air show last weekend, the last thing I wanted to do was hang around the museum, especially with most of the guys on the road to Reading, so I don't know if there were any delays.

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I saw an AV-8B harrier doing a Demo flight today. It scared the crap out of me because the wheels were only about 15 foot off deck and he made a hard left bank. I thought that thing was going to crash. Then when he returned from the Hover demo I refueled it in our Hot Pits. Very cool to say the least. Wish I had my camcorder.

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