Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2017

[FIREBOX2914]

2040z CUBE 71 flight of 6 F-16's into Andrews from Lajes.
These are Homestead FM birds on way home from deployment.
Guess will make Florida tomorrow.

Has anyone heard them leave? Kind of mad I missed them coming in!

 

[Mark]

BTW some Hill AFB F-35's will make hop to Europe this weekend..
Prob to RAF Lakenheath but nobody is 100% sure about that.

Lakenheath it was on a nice day and large turnout for the folks there..
Two of the airspares THUD 13,14 dropped South into Bangor on way..
They really did polar route Utah then out Canada by tip of Greenland so nothing here..LOL
All 4 of the second wave made it as well so 6 total..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhVVW2aGuA

 

[Mark]

Has anyone heard them leave? Kind of mad I missed them coming in!

No news on their Homestead homecoming yet but FM Makos did finish up NATO exercise in Greece..
Some cool pics over there late last Month..Nice shark tooth engine inlet covers.

Exercise Iniohos 17 kicks off in Greece > Homestead Air Reserve Base > Article Display

 

[FIREBOX2914]

Their was reportedly 12 in Greece. So theirs 6 more out standing. Ill be lurking around andrews tomorrow hoping to catch the other 6 coming in!

 

[Mark]

Their was reportedly 12 in Greece. So theirs 6 more out standing. Ill be lurking around andrews tomorrow hoping to catch the other 6 coming in!

Seems this morning 1515z HOIST 93,94 KC-10's from McGuire dragged someone to Florida.. Guessing was the FM guys..

 

[BM82557]

Blackhawk Down

fyi -

"A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter with three crew members on board experienced a hard landing Monday, crashing in Leonardtown, Maryland.

One of the crew members was medevaced from the scene, Ft. Belvoir spokesperson Jimmie Cummings told CNN.
No additional details were provided about the other crewmembers or why the helicopter, which came from Ft. Belvoir, crashed at approximately 1:50 p.m."

Blackhawk military helicopter crashes in Maryland - CNNPolitics.com

 

[freqhopping]

Looks like it was 98-26803 that crashed.

 

[FIREBOX2914]

Looks like it was 98-26803 that crashed.

Problem is thats not a Belvoir Bird. Its one from Honduras.

Have you seen a clear photo of the number? The one I saw was hard to make out.

 

[FIREBOX2914]

Problem is thats not a Belvoir Bird. Its one from Honduras.

Have you seen a clear photo of the number? The one I saw was hard to make out.

Ok so a photo this am does clearly show 803... Would really like the Army to confirm the bu no.

 

[maus92]

News reports this morning are saying one killed, and two (one critical) at Shock Trauma in Baltimore. Kinda looks like a catastrophic mechanical (tail rotor / gearbox) failure - eyewitness saw "pieces coming off" the aircraft , and it "spinning."

 

[freqhopping]

Looking like 303 in this video. 90-26303
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMu3oML92VM

 

[freqhopping]

I was watching the French Alpha Jets heading east this morning along with an A400. Unless the tracking was all screwed up, only the A400 made it to Langley. It looked like 3B7655 FAF609 landed in Charleston, WV. 3B7636 E152 FAF607 seemed to circle back at FL210 before dropping into the area of Oceana, WV.
3B7681 FAF602 made it as far as the area west of Dilwyn, VA where I lost it at 1000ft.


AE0440 THOR60 made a Belvoir to NC trip this morning.

 

[Mark]

Seems French are nearing end of their tour..

April 19th: Refueling at Peterson AFB and USAF Academy Flyby, CO
April 19th: Refueling at Scott AFB, IL
April 20th-21st: VIP Event at Langley AFB, VA
April 22nd-23rd: Airshow at Stewart ANG Base, NY
April 28th-29th: NATO Tattoo in Norfolk, VA
April 30th: Wings Over Gatineau Airshow, Gatineau, QC
May 1st: Montreal, QC
May 2nd: Quebec City, QC
May 4th: Departure from Bagotville, QC

 

[Mark]

Atlantic Trident 2017 had busy Friday with morning demos and later mass launches.
Now I know why those McGuire Hoist tankers went to Mountain Home and back last week.
Some MO F-15E's participating.. Also near the end watch 4 Eglin F-35A's launch as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atjp0HT_S9o

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys,

Looks like Thursday is tanker day---ADS-B showing Team 41 & 42 up over upstate NY & Vermont, Topcat 4 around Atlantic City, Steel 62 off NJ/DE coast, and Hoist 81 & Total 61 out in W386.

 

[Mark]

Logged rare EP3E off Pax River headed North last night..
0045z 156511 VQ-1 "World Watchers" NAS Whidbey island (AE1D8A)
Came into Pax it seems back on April 22 then up to Bangor area last night.
This tail spent past Winter working Japan and Taipei areas and seems off to Europe for now.
This tail was also the one that collided with Chinese jet back in 2001.
https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/5844819

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

 

[freqhopping]

AF2 inbound to Harrisburg.
Looks like there will be a CAP. ZOMBIE12 60-0367 heading that way from Ohio.

 

[Mark]

Rgr hearing fighter NOBLE 11 with ZOMBIE tanker 228.900 and Huntress 260.900

(A130EF) CROOK 32 DHC-7 US Army came south 2035z in from Europe deployment.
Logged in Iceland the other day.

 

[Mark]

9:35pm local Harrisburg Fighter Cap breaking up as NOBLE 11,12 plan rtb KMMT McEntire ANG SC.
9:50pm local NOBLE 11 flight on ZDC 227.125 direct Richmond.
9:55pm local NOBLE ZDC Blackstone 236.625

 

[pilotman6012]

Good morning,heads up EVAL 45 (MC-12S-3V(VADER)) 13-00282 just left North Alabama headed northeast thru 25,000 feet probably Hagerstown,Md or Lakehurst,NJ is destination.