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Just Witnessed Possible CAP Flight Intercept
My own personal self
| 1/4/02
| Psalm37
Posted on 01/04/2002 2:41:29 PM PST by psalm37
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To: NELSON111
Did you fly the 111?
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posted on
01/04/2002 10:57:55 PM PST
by
kickme
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To: kickme
Nope...I'm a weather guy. I have had a couple of rides in the F-16D though...and one in an F-4. Its a real kick in the pants...
To: WSGilcrest
Good one
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posted on
01/05/2002 5:43:00 AM PST
by
Unicorn
To: NELSON111
I didn't know that Ellington was so active. I remember going there when I was a kid. I just think of it as the place where the space shuttle would come into every once in a while.
To: NELSON111
the guys flying CAP now over NYC and sometimes DCI'm inside the Beltway - Northern VA - and the CAP activity has been interesting to say the least.
Up until December the coverage over DC was intense, I'd say anywhere from 6 to 10 jets being simultaneously visible at night. More recently it seems to have been reduced.
Also, the helicopter traffic between DC and Quantico varies according to (I suppose) the current threat level. For a good while it was almost nonstop, all day long. Then a lull, then it picked up again before Christmas, and now back to fairly low levels (as it had been prior to 9/11).
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posted on
01/05/2002 9:32:05 AM PST
by
angkor
To: ctonious
that what you saw was a flock of geese heading south.Nothing to see here, move along.
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posted on
01/05/2002 2:05:36 PM PST
by
ninenot
To: Aggie Mama
Pretty busy place. We have a sqdn of F-16's there, along with the 3-149th Aviation Battalion (Army) with their Apaches, the Coast Guard flies out of there as well. Plus...it is a UPS departure point and NASA is there as well.
Gig 'em,
Nelson, '92
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