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USA and Puerto Rico Lock Down Airspace for Hot Pit Refueling: What Does This Mean for Flight Operations?
Travel and Tour World ^ | November 1, 2025 | Paramita Sarkar Puerto rico

Posted on 10/31/2025 3:37:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 10/31/2025 3:37:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Some Monroe Doctrine action about to happen? Probably involving VZ?


2 posted on 10/31/2025 3:39:04 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Communist nations are bad neighbors.


3 posted on 10/31/2025 3:42:18 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: FreedomPoster

I definitely think VZ and maybe even Cuba since they are commies and closely tied to China.


4 posted on 10/31/2025 3:44:24 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: FreedomPoster

My first thought is airlifting supplies for hurricane victims in Jamaica


5 posted on 10/31/2025 3:46:15 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: FreedomPoster

First news comes from a travel agency?


6 posted on 10/31/2025 3:46:21 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You don’t put out NOTAMs to get ready for war....


7 posted on 10/31/2025 3:50:00 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It is about 600 miles straight shot over water from Puerto Rico into Venezuela.


8 posted on 10/31/2025 4:00:08 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m guessing an AI generated article. It has all the trademarks of articles being posted in Farcebook which keep repeating themselves throughout the article with slight variation in next paragraph.


9 posted on 10/31/2025 4:00:58 PM PDT by cva66snipe
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There is normal traffic in and out of SJU, so the NOTAM is not No-Fly, but rather ‘be on notice the US is ready to lock down PR airspace for AF sorties to Venez’.


10 posted on 10/31/2025 4:02:10 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: cva66snipe

Yes, this is the dumbest article I’ve seen in a while. Hot refueling has nothing to do with airspace management.


11 posted on 10/31/2025 4:23:12 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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Yes, this is the dumbest article I’ve seen in a while. Hot refueling has nothing to do with airspace management.

I'm seeing more and more of them lately. Navy related articles full of misinformation, showing ships that hull ID number doesn't match ships name, and other types of inaccurate things.

12 posted on 10/31/2025 4:27:57 PM PDT by cva66snipe
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"Yes, this is the dumbest article I’ve seen in a while. Hot refueling has nothing to do with airspace management."

"I'm seeing more and more of them lately. Navy related articles full of misinformation, showing ships that hull ID number doesn't match ships name, and other types of inaccurate things."

Consider the OP.

13 posted on 10/31/2025 4:31:04 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“What does it mean?”
It means DJT ain’t screwin’ around...


14 posted on 10/31/2025 4:34:37 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: cva66snipe

I have a few landings on the America. I was a C-2 guy.


15 posted on 10/31/2025 4:35:52 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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What year? I was on her 77-80.


16 posted on 10/31/2025 4:39:48 PM PDT by cva66snipe
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I was flying C-2s 1987 through 1993. If I remember correctly, she was an east coast carrier for desert shield/ storm.


17 posted on 10/31/2025 4:42:43 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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I was flying C-2s 1987 through 1993. If I remember correctly, she was an east coast carrier for desert shield/ storm.

Yeap that was likely her. 1995 was her last one there. But before that deployment she had been ran there three times with no overhaul. I think at the completion of the 1993 deployment when they pulled back into NOB NORVA she had a boiler explosion that got her towed to NNSY for a fast patch up and sent on the 1995 deployment. Once the denied her S.L.E.P. they then simply ran her to an early grave literally. She lies in over 16,000 ft deep sea off the North Carolina coast.

18 posted on 10/31/2025 4:51:43 PM PDT by cva66snipe
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She was also the first carrier to do the Suez transit in 1981 IIRC since the Six Day Way.


19 posted on 10/31/2025 4:53:43 PM PDT by cva66snipe
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To: maddog55
You don’t put out NOTAMs to get ready for war....

LOL no you do not

20 posted on 10/31/2025 5:19:53 PM PDT by onona
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