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hbtcoveralls
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Was in Charleston for the weekend and was about to board the Yorktown when a dark blue Hellcat with a drop tank did a fly by. Never came back around just continued over the bridge and headed inland. Great experience, any clues as to which Hellcat that was? Also saw 2 C-17s taking off as we were on the way home on I-26 so they were probably from Shaw AFB.
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Heard an approaching aircraft that caused me to hurriedly drop what I was doing and dash outside. It was a Mustang loping along directly over the house/shop. Great eye candy, beautiful music, and very nice to know my ears are so finely tuned. 8)

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hbtcoveralls wrote:
Was in Charleston for the weekend... Also saw 2 C-17s taking off as we were on the way home on I-26 so they were probably from Shaw AFB.
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There is a squadron of C-17s based in Charleston. None based at Shaw (wherever that is) that I am aware of.
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I sight I never thought I would see....

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Wow, Zane that is a great picture. Which day did you go?

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Fullerton, Ca airport had an open house on Saturday. I took my son there after his soccer game. The resident T-6 did some flypasts. My son got to fly an electric u-control plane, with some help, courtesy of the local model airplane club.

On Sunday I saw a Beech Starship fly over Chino.
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Thanks!

I went on Friday and Sunday. Great show despite the low clouds and cool temps.

Here's one from Friday. Just so cool to see!

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Ztex wrote:
Thanks!

I went on Friday and Sunday. Great show despite the low clouds and cool temps.

Here's one from Friday. Just so cool to see!

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AN-124 over Tulsa on Sept 30. I was photographing a model airplane contest so i had a camera
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Saw the wing fly at Chino last Saturday. Of course the batteries in my camera died so no pics...
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bdk wrote:
hbtcoveralls wrote:
Was in Charleston for the weekend... Also saw 2 C-17s taking off as we were on the way home on I-26 so they were probably from Shaw AFB.
Tom Bowers

There is a squadron of C-17s based in Charleston. None based at Shaw (wherever that is) that I am aware of.


Thanks, I hadn't thought of Charleston AFB, it seemed we were too far north when I saw them. Shaw AFB is in Sumter SC.
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bdk wrote:
There is a squadron of C-17s based in Charleston. None based at Shaw (wherever that is) that I am aware of.


Thanks, I hadn't thought of Charleston AFB, it seemed we were too far north when I saw them. Shaw AFB is in Sumter SC.
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No telling what base a C-17 might be visiting of course. Looks like C-17s are frequent visitors to Shaw:

http://www.shaw.af.mil/photos/mediagallery.asp?galleryID=867
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Zane who's F-86's were there? I saw Tora headed home Sunday morning...
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Not an AIRPLANE. Not even an AIRCRAFT. But definitely a SPACECRAFT! Two of them, in fact. Tonight from my backyard in Decatur, Texas, I just caught the ISS and the Dragon spacecraft as the went out of sight. It is incredible how bright the ISS is! It took me a while to realize what it was and then confirm on the NASA website. Very cool, and so bright that I probably could have got a picture with a decent camera and telephoto lens.

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I saw 'em too, pretty cool, eh? FYI: Here's a great website for orbiting space stuff, either for predicting passes in advance, or ID'ing after the fact.

http://www.heavens-above.com/

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