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Thunderbirds

The USAF thunderbirds

A pilot?

Yep. Tbird buzzed me in the TNF.

Drops the mic

What happens between two consenting men shouldn't be shared on the Internet.

I know the guy who took that picture. His name is Glenn Watson.

Thunderbirds are coming to Montgomery in the spring.

Happens all of the time.Generally around 3:30 you can count on it.

I don't know what kind of plane the red and white I see I was told are Coast Guard. I own a piece of property that has one of the marks nearby they fly to out of Pensacola. Just today I had one make me soil my pants.

Coast guard is a reddish orange and white. It's more dark orange than red.

Yea, they are usually gone before I get a good look. They are flying low and fast.

And they fly out of Mobile, but they don't fly F-16s.

That's them Navy jet trainers y'all are seeing I bet. I see them flying around a bit.They are a hot little number for sure.
http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fus...40-46A3C4FF3740

He was hauling azz and low too - surprised he doesn't have pine sap on the bottom of his bird. He was close enough I could see the pilot and tell his sunscreen was up - he was facing away from the sun. I was up close to the top of the tallest ridge in the area. Rare for me but that's where the hogs are right now.

I would have thought a war bird would be painted something less garish is the only reason I asked.

Probably a Navy trainer on a low level training mission.

Back in my younger crazy days, I flew low level missions in an F-4 at 250 ft and 480 knots. Certainly kept your attention

We don't see any T-45's into our airport here, although we do see a lot of the Navy's piston engine trainers and a turboprop trainer from the AF a lot, along with Hueys, Kiowas, Blackhawks, Chinooks, and Ospreys. Airport's about 2.5 miles down the road from the house, so we see trainers on short final for fuel stops every day.



About 25 or so years ago, a buddy and I were fishing on the Alabama a couple miles downstream of the dam at Miller's Ferry. We'd been hearing fighters overhead all morning, and Tim asked me what they were doing. I told him they were probably training...gearing up for some dogfighting. About 20 minutes later, a pair of F-16's passed overhead about 3000' or so, heading south, and about 5 minutes behind them, a Phantom came ROARING down the river...I mean low, as in, below the treeline on the riverbanks, maybe 50' off the river! Jinking REAL hard following the river, and hopping just over the treeline for the turns he couldn't make. Tim asked what the hell he was doing...I told him I expected he was probably sneaking up on those 2 Falcons that flew by a few minutes ago!

Back before 9/11 we sure had fun slipping up on and buzzing folks on millers ferry in a 2 seat thrush crop duster. I was in the back seat of course

My Dad used to tell about flying over the Mediterranean in a B-47 when they saw a carrier. They lowered the landing gear and made an approach. Said guys were waving flags and their arms and running like hell.

THAT would have been fun to watch!