Well, just thought I'd make everyone jealous and talk about how I get to watch F-117s, Tornados, F-16's, F-15's, and QF-4's fly every day and night! Oh and the black T-38's too! Oh, and soon I'll be flying in the back seat of the 38s, oh and a Cessna Skymaster below 500 ft. twice a week! I love my job!

Here I sit in my research office on another fine, typically British day. For you, I have but one word:

Git.

So? Here in the springs, I get to see B-2s fly by once in a while, as well as F-15s on a day to day basis, blackhawks and chithooks, a B-52 last weekend, A-10's almost all the time, and F-16's flying formation daily. Did I mention the thunderbirds come here all the time for the USAF Academy gradumication day???

i hate you guys.Up here in Toronto, there is nothing but commercial traffic.

Airshow in September with a decent line up.CIAS.ORG

*sigh* Can't wait to get my first duty assignment.

I don't know the whole thing with clearances (atleast not yet), but take some pictures if its not too much trouble heh.

I only get the ocational A-10

Howdy again! Yeah, you're really not supposed to take pics of the bases... security forces and intel really doesnt like that too much lol.... Especially considering this is an operation stealth base; not to mention there is a TON of other "stuff" here that I will leave you guessing about I started flying T-41's (souped up cessana 172 with 210 hp) the other day which is going very well. I should solo soon. After that, I will get my fill of T-38 back seat rides, and then it's off to UPT in April! Ah, and I stand corrected on the Cessna SkyMaster flying I was talking about above. It's actually a 310N (twin engine kind of like a Beachcraft Baron) that I've been flying right seat in for these range surveys. We were doing 100 ft the other day with me doin the flying Whoever is thinking about joining the Air Force should freakin do it, because it kick ass!

Hehe...yup...pictures of the day-to-day flight operations of an AFB by AF personnel are not all that welcome. The SPs are very unlikely to even let you bring a camera onto the flight line with you.

I've seen a few 310s. Doing avionics work on them sucks in winter. Some of the avionics components are in the nose, and the only way to get there is through the nose gear well. In order to squeeze between the gear doors...well...let's just say you can't be wearing any thick clothing when doing that. I've pulled encoders from 310 noses in January, with the temp at 15 below zero, with nothing but a t-shirt between my upper body and mother nature. That was the thickest item of clothing I could squeeze past those doors...and you have to keep moving in order to keep any bare skin from sticking to the metal in those temps.

Wow, that does suck.
I havent really got close to any military aircraft except at oshkosh, wisconson. I saw an A-10. (looked into the cockpit of it to.) an f-16. (saw the cockpit of that too.) looked up into the bomb bays of a lancer. and went inside a globalmaster (C-17). Oh, they had an F-4 there to. 2 F-15s flew over, and 2 hornets. and not to mention the blue angles. they just flew over, though, nothing special. the 15's and 18's landed, but parked on the other side of the airport. ya, nothing special to what you guys get.

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Originally posted by himti:
i hate you guys.Up here in Toronto, there is nothing but commercial traffic.

Airshow in September with a decent line up.CIAS.ORG

Hey, I'm with you; I may live in California, the aircraft manufacturing capital of the world, but apparently they only build airplanes here, they never fly them. I'm assuming they go to other states to do any actual flying (like Nevada, New Mexico, Florida, etc.). I'm lucky if I see an ANG F-16 ADF once a year.

Lucky you see those aircraft every day just a cuople of minutes ago i saw two F-117's and that black T-38 talk off from nellis afb they just left from nellis airshow