Unusual to see them out this late. Last time I heard them take off like that, some moron had flown in to U.S. Airspace and would not identify his aircraft. Just heard about six take off headed toward the gulf with full afterburners !!!
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1357233 05/26/1504:18 PM05/26/1504:18 PM
Like I said before. I see and hear them every day. Only the second time in 5 mos I've seen them do that. They do night training regularly. But not like that.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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[Re: SMB44]
#1357264 05/26/1504:38 PM05/26/1504:38 PM
full afterburner = 20k per plane for take off in jet fuel.. Better be important...
Do the F22's use JP8?
As far as I know... Im in the Air Force but not associated with planes other than when they need protecting.. I was told by a maintainer that is what it cost per plane.. When I was in Afghan they took off in 4's and 8's pretty often and that shucks will wake the dead...
Let me text my buddy that was a maintainer and see if he knows what they run on and what it coast
Playin string music Hoyt Vector 32 Get Serious Get Hoyt
Alto, la migra means Stop, immigration in Spanish slang. They'll scatter like skittles dropped on a concrete floor. -Furflyin
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: SMB44]
#1357283 05/26/1504:48 PM05/26/1504:48 PM
full afterburner = 20k per plane for take off in jet fuel.. Better be important...
Do the F22's use JP8?
As far as I know... Im in the Air Force but not associated with planes other than when they need protecting.. I was told by a maintainer that is what it cost per plane.. When I was in Afghan they took off in 4's and 8's pretty often and that shucks will wake the dead...
Let me text my buddy that was a maintainer and see if he knows what they run on and what it coast
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1357286 05/26/1504:49 PM05/26/1504:49 PM
They use Jet A with additives the Air Force changed over to that from JP-8 couple years ago in the states anyway. Fuel Cost to fly one of those would be around 7-10 thousand dollars per flight depending on weather or not they have on externals or not. They don't hold very much fuel comparatively speaking.
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Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1357396 05/27/1502:52 AM05/27/1502:52 AM
They use Jet A with additives the Air Force changed over to that from JP-8 couple years ago in the states anyway. Fuel Cost to fly one of those would be around 7-10 thousand dollars per flight depending on weather or not they have on externals or not. They don't hold very much fuel comparatively speaking.
Yep Mike, they converted us over to Jet AA about a year or so ago.
Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1357482 05/27/1505:58 AM05/27/1505:58 AM
JP8 gets used in most forward deployed areas and functions as a "universal" fuel, as it's formulated to work well in every environment from desert to polar regions. You can run everything from diesel trucks and generators to helicopters and jets on it. Basically everything except what needs gasoline.
Colt1917
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[Re: Colt1917]
#1357493 05/27/1506:32 AM05/27/1506:32 AM
Back in my F-4 days we planned on 1000 lbs for start, taxi and takeoff. High level flight we burned 100 lbs a minute. Low level we burned 300 lbs a minute. Afterburner was 3000 lbs a minute! The good news was you got where you were going really fast so you didn't use it very long.
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1357694 05/27/1512:26 PM05/27/1512:26 PM
It was really awsome...the last time we were able to make a beach trip, we went to mexico beach. Those 22's making approaches to tyndall were so low, you could see the pilots faces. We could hear them way offshore doing dogfights (maybe?)...and see the contrails while they were out there.
The harder I practice, the luckier I get.
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[Re: RCHRR]
#1357878 05/27/1504:19 PM05/27/1504:19 PM
I have one of when Toby Keith came to Bargram in 09... We got motored during it they took him off got him in an IBA and after 10 mins or so he came back out looked at all of us and said if y'all aint wearing it neither am I!!!!
Playin string music Hoyt Vector 32 Get Serious Get Hoyt
Alto, la migra means Stop, immigration in Spanish slang. They'll scatter like skittles dropped on a concrete floor. -Furflyin
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: SMB44]
#1358716 05/28/1511:49 PM05/28/1511:49 PM
lol there aint no telling them boys is a whole different breed...
Yep. The combination of intelligence, physical condition, hand/eye coordination and sheer nerve/swagger that it takes to fly a high performance fighter is a rare commodity. My oldest son is in Air Force UPT now. They have to fill out a "dream sheet" on what they want to fly, my suggestion was F22's. You'll be close to home, lol. I think he is leaning towards the bomber community. B-1's is his top choice right now.
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Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1359033 05/29/1511:26 AM05/29/1511:26 AM
lol there aint no telling them boys is a whole different breed...
Yep. The combination of intelligence, physical condition, hand/eye coordination and sheer nerve/swagger that it takes to fly a high performance fighter is a rare commodity. My oldest son is in Air Force UPT now. They have to fill out a "dream sheet" on what they want to fly, my suggestion was F22's. You'll be close to home, lol. I think he is leaning towards the bomber community. B-1's is his top choice right now.
Awesome wish him luck from me! How is he getting his commission ?
Playin string music Hoyt Vector 32 Get Serious Get Hoyt
Alto, la migra means Stop, immigration in Spanish slang. They'll scatter like skittles dropped on a concrete floor. -Furflyin
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1359338 05/30/1512:49 AM05/30/1512:49 AM
I live next to Eglin AFB. Fighter jets take off all day and night here. Nothing new so I doubt it was a 'scramble'. If you want to see a scramble, should have been down here during 9/11. That was a month straight of scrambles. Hundreds of fighters in the air at once day and night.
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: SMB44]
#1359484 05/30/1510:33 AM05/30/1510:33 AM
lol there aint no telling them boys is a whole different breed...
Yep. The combination of intelligence, physical condition, hand/eye coordination and sheer nerve/swagger that it takes to fly a high performance fighter is a rare commodity. My oldest son is in Air Force UPT now. They have to fill out a "dream sheet" on what they want to fly, my suggestion was F22's. You'll be close to home, lol. I think he is leaning towards the bomber community. B-1's is his top choice right now.
Awesome wish him luck from me! How is he getting his commission ?
I will. He is a Troy University Gradutate in Biomedical Science of all things. Commissioned via Troy AFROTC.
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Simpleman]
#1359487 05/30/1510:40 AM05/30/1510:40 AM
lol there aint no telling them boys is a whole different breed...
Yep. The combination of intelligence, physical condition, hand/eye coordination and sheer nerve/swagger that it takes to fly a high performance fighter is a rare commodity. My oldest son is in Air Force UPT now. They have to fill out a "dream sheet" on what they want to fly, my suggestion was F22's. You'll be close to home, lol. I think he is leaning towards the bomber community. B-1's is his top choice right now.
Awesome wish him luck from me! How is he getting his commission ?
I will. He is a Troy University Gradutate in Biomedical Science of all things. Commissioned via Troy AFROTC.
Good for him!
Nathan Carl Goff 19 Sept 2016 - 14 Jan 2017.
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1751936 06/02/1603:20 PM06/02/1603:20 PM
Just an update on my oldest. He has finished up UPT at Laughing AFB, Tx and is currently training on flying C-130J's in Little Rock AFB, Ark. He will report to Ramstien AB in Germany in September. He is enjoying it and loves the C-130 mission.
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1751985 06/02/1603:55 PM06/02/1603:55 PM
Just an update on my oldest. He has finished up UPT at Laughing AFB, Tx and is currently training on flying C-130J's in Little Rock AFB, Ark. He will report to Ramstien AB in Germany in September. He is enjoying it and loves the C-130 mission.
That's awesome. I will always wish I had been in the Air Force.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Simpleman]
#1752022 06/02/1604:26 PM06/02/1604:26 PM
Just an update on my oldest. He has finished up UPT at Laughing AFB, Tx and is currently training on flying C-130J's in Little Rock AFB, Ark. He will report to Ramstien AB in Germany in September. He is enjoying it and loves the C-130 mission.
Congrats to your son. C-130's are a workhorse when things get real.
Nathan Carl Goff 19 Sept 2016 - 14 Jan 2017.
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[Re: Dixiepatriot]
#1752041 06/02/1604:54 PM06/02/1604:54 PM
I have one of when Toby Keith came to Bargram in 09... We got motored during it they took him off got him in an IBA and after 10 mins or so he came back out looked at all of us and said if y'all aint wearing it neither am I!!!!
LOL I was at Liberty base in Baghdad for some CIED training when Toby Keith came there. My buddy and I decided to go watch, and sure as hell about 40 minutes into the concert, here comes mortars. After the all clear was given, Toby came back on stage and said, "F#@! those guys, lets have a concert." Every body there hooted and clapped and he got back to business. Was pretty cool.
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[Re: Cletus]
#1752074 06/02/1605:32 PM06/02/1605:32 PM
It was really awsome...the last time we were able to make a beach trip, we went to mexico beach. Those 22's making approaches to tyndall were so low, you could see the pilots faces. We could hear them way offshore doing dogfights (maybe?)...and see the contrails while they were out there.
I didn't even think that jets had dogfights anymore. I thought they could shoot other jets out of the sky from over the horizon...
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1752125 06/03/1612:52 AM06/03/1612:52 AM
I have one of when Toby Keith came to Bargram in 09... We got motored during it they took him off got him in an IBA and after 10 mins or so he came back out looked at all of us and said if y'all aint wearing it neither am I!!!!
LOL I was at Liberty base in Baghdad for some CIED training when Toby Keith came there. My buddy and I decided to go watch, and sure as hell about 40 minutes into the concert, here comes mortars. After the all clear was given, Toby came back on stage and said, "F#@! those guys, lets have a concert." Every body there hooted and clapped and he got back to business. Was pretty cool.
That's a cool story. Speaks highly of Toby Keith too. Thank you for your service.
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[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1752132 06/03/1601:23 AM06/03/1601:23 AM
Just an update on my oldest. He has finished up UPT at Laughing AFB, Tx and is currently training on flying C-130J's in Little Rock AFB, Ark. He will report to Ramstien AB in Germany in September. He is enjoying it and loves the C-130 mission.
Congrats to your son. C-130's are a workhorse when things get real.
Oldest brother flew them C-130's, he loved that plane, did his 30 and retired
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1752225 06/03/1604:33 AM06/03/1604:33 AM
Not to derail but ... I grew up in Fort Worth TX during the Vietnam war. We lived less than a mile from Carswell AFB which was a SAC base at that time. KC-135's and B-52's were rolling around the clock.
Anyway, one day a KC failed on liftoff, you wanna talk about something that will wake the dead, dang I can still remember it and I was like 10 years old at the time. It felt like we had been nuked ...
I don't want to pass quietly into the night. I want to slide in sideways kickin and screamin Life really is awesome ... Soak it up while you can ...
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[Re: Rocket62]
#1752226 06/03/1604:35 AM06/03/1604:35 AM
Not to derail but ... I grew up in Fort Worth TX during the Vietnam war. We lived less than a mile from Carswell AFB which was a SAC base at that time. KC-135's and B-52's were rolling around the clock.
Anyway, one day a KC failed on liftoff, you wanna talk about something that will wake the dead, dang I can still remember it and I was like 10 years old at the time. It felt like we had been nuked ...
Did it fail on liftoff or landing?
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Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1752227 06/03/1604:36 AM06/03/1604:36 AM
I got a chance to work on the emergency rescue trucks on the flight line at Eglin and just to see and hear one start up would make your hair stand up but when they took off nothing but chill bumps and adrealin. then you wonder why any dumb arse country would want to mess with that?
Live like you are dieing!!!
Let me live till i'm too old to die young.
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[Re: Sharpshooter69]
#1752230 06/03/1604:39 AM06/03/1604:39 AM
We went Cobia fishing on a Wednesday a few months back, we got a great show from the Angels when passing Pensacola. 5 of them up for 30 minutes or so. It was awesome, and caught a Cobia, that blackened was also awesome
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: Reloader79]
#1752233 06/03/1604:46 AM06/03/1604:46 AM
Not to derail but ... I grew up in Fort Worth TX during the Vietnam war. We lived less than a mile from Carswell AFB which was a SAC base at that time. KC-135's and B-52's were rolling around the clock.
Anyway, one day a KC failed on liftoff, you wanna talk about something that will wake the dead, dang I can still remember it and I was like 10 years old at the time. It felt like we had been nuked ...
Did it fail on liftoff or landing?
It failed on liftoff
I don't want to pass quietly into the night. I want to slide in sideways kickin and screamin Life really is awesome ... Soak it up while you can ...
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[Re: Rocket62]
#1752246 06/03/1605:09 AM06/03/1605:09 AM
Not to derail but ... I grew up in Fort Worth TX during the Vietnam war. We lived less than a mile from Carswell AFB which was a SAC base at that time. KC-135's and B-52's were rolling around the clock.
Anyway, one day a KC failed on liftoff, you wanna talk about something that will wake the dead, dang I can still remember it and I was like 10 years old at the time. It felt like we had been nuked ...
Did it fail on liftoff or landing?
It failed on liftoff
That link you posted says it failed on landing.
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: capehorn24]
#1752264 06/03/1605:49 AM06/03/1605:49 AM
Just an update on my oldest. He has finished up UPT at Laughing AFB, Tx and is currently training on flying C-130J's in Little Rock AFB, Ark. He will report to Ramstien AB in Germany in September. He is enjoying it and loves the C-130 mission.
Congrats to your son. C-130's are a workhorse when things get real.
Oldest brother flew them C-130's, he loved that plane, did his 30 and retired
I fixed the hydraulics, flight controls, landing gear and rigged throttles and ramp and door at Pope from 86-93.
Nathan Carl Goff 19 Sept 2016 - 14 Jan 2017.
Re: F22's just scrambled out of Tyndall AFB
[Re: sumpter_al]
#1752286 06/03/1606:33 AM06/03/1606:33 AM
Just an update on my oldest. He has finished up UPT at Laughing AFB, Tx and is currently training on flying C-130J's in Little Rock AFB, Ark. He will report to Ramstien AB in Germany in September. He is enjoying it and loves the C-130 mission.
Congrats to your son. C-130's are a workhorse when things get real.
Oldest brother flew them C-130's, he loved that plane, did his 30 and retired
I fixed the hydraulics, flight controls, landing gear and rigged throttles and ramp and door at Pope from 86-93.
My youngest son is in the 82 Airborne. You guys at Pope did yeomans work, thank you for your service.