What airplane did you see flying today?(airplane spotting)

the330thbg · **Joined:** Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:06 pm **Posts:** 2713

agreed.., they looked ominous as all heck.
Like all ‘huey’s’ I heard them loooooong before I saw them on the horizon.
Very, very cool looking aircraft.
Profile of the fuselage reminds me of the Tigercat. About a shoulder width and that is it.

CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:23 am

Canso42 wrote:

Dec. 7 I saw Hill Country Memorial Flight do the flyover for the Pearl Harbor comemoration at the National Museum of the Pacific War and later met Obergrafeter and Fighter Ace face to face.

Dec. 8, I saw one of those silver and day-glo orange S. African AT-6s flying out of 11R. I don't know whose it is, but it's a frequent visitor here. If they fly out on 16, they overfly my job. In on 16 or out on 34, over my house.

I'm only aware of one SAAF painted AT-6 that lives in Texas and that's the one at Gilmer.

Pogo · **Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:18 pm

Spotted this at Pearland International Airport......

Canso42 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:00 pm

CAP flyer, it could be possible that someone painted another a/c to look like the SAAF paint job. I've seen it here a few times and a friend asked me about it, saying he's seen it here. I think I have photos of it from a small fly-in here in '02.

PropsRule · **Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:33 pm

Heard, then saw, a CF-18 blasting off out of Toronto Pearson this evening. By the time it was in view, the pilot had it in a near-knife edge right hand turn, heading North (ish). It was cool to see the twin red beacons flashing on top of the V-Stabs. I had my three-year-old with me so I said, "Look at the F-18!" (letters and numbers are the "in" thing with her right now). She saw the red beacons and said, "Look Daddy, I see lights", and we stood on the sidewalk and watched the Hornet tear off into the distance.

CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:46 pm

Canso42 wrote:

CAP flyer, it could be possible that someone painted another a/c to look like the SAAF paint job. I've seen it here a few times and a friend asked me about it, saying he's seen it here. I think I have photos of it from a small fly-in here in '02.

It may also be a SAAF bird. Like I said, the only one I know of. Doesn't mean I'm not aware of all of them. :lol:

RickH · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:14 am

Rick Sharpe's new A-26. He has two, now. Pearland International, that's a good one !

It'll always be Clover Field to me !

Pogo · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:54 am

Yep, I've been hanging out at Clover since Nixon won his first election. Doesn't quite look the same nowadays ..... although having "Tanker 59" sitting there is a definite improvement.

airnutz · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:23 pm

Speaking of Clover.... About 3 yrs ago, I spotted a SAAF schemed T-6 in a hangar there. Mebbee it was just visiting?

RickH · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:53 pm

No it lived there for several years. I believe it was sold and moved on a while back.

Hans Olo · **Joined:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:57 pm **Posts:** 1

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K5DH · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 3:34 pm

This past Saturday, Dec. 17, my Dad saw what he described as a DC-6 doing touch-'n-goes at Charlotte County Airport in Punta Gorda, FL. He was sitting in his car in a parking lot and he could see the airplane while it was in the downwind leg of the pattern. He didn't give me any other information. I sure wish I could have been there! :shock:

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:21 pm

Can't here you, been listening to these darn National Guard planes flying directly overhead. :drink3:

Ztex · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:04 pm

This thing flew into Meacham Field, Fort Worth
yesterday.....

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:09 am

Driving home from Alliance Thursday night, I saw a slow moving A/C headed on final to Meachum Field, Ft. Worth, Texas. It was a foggy night and only as it passed over head I was able to see the blue exhaust for the C-47 Southern Cross and those stripes on the wing that Ober would approve of...

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