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If your main goal is photos of flying 60s, NOLF is the best place, better than Dog Beach, better than trying for them flying over the Bay from Coronado or from Harbor Island. At NOLF you'll be closer AND they do more dynamic flying there. Keep walking down (south) along the NOLF perimeter fence and ...

June 14 2022 Tactical Air Support 'Villain' Northrup F-5F 21/N699TA //white BORT, blue paint, 2 seater US Navy Bell-Boeing CMV-22B Osprey BUNO 169450 //VRM 30 or 50 not sure which US Navy VP-1 Screaming Eagles Boeing P-8A Poseidon YB 343/ BUNO 169343 US Army black helicopters (160th SOAR)??? These ...

Lots of visitors to NASNI. Haven't seen a 53K yet, but have seen an USMC -53 and color bird for HM-15 (equipped with MH-53E Sea Dragons). At least some of the 53s are here for RIMPAC SOCAL (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7315583/exercise-rimpac-22-southern-california). I think RIMPAC also explains t...

F-22A 04-4070/- Chrome2 c/s 'Go to Red Flag the first week,' I said to myself, 'you missed that WWII A-10 last time when you went in the 2nd week for RF 22-1, get there early this time before the planes start breaking down.' Naturally, less than a week after I left, the 2nd edition 'Chrome' F-22 ma...

07.03 visitor: RRR9230 from Brize Norton. ADS-B : ZZ336. Landed during afternoon recovery. Very snappy red white blue paint job. More later, just dumping the cards now. ADDITION Just the highlights, 'cause I'm too fried to pixel peep/look up all the numbers. Unexpected Visitors: ~8 T-38 Talons, 435...

Just want to say you did a great job with the update to the Nellis Spotting guide. It's much more detailed than the older version. Good job adding in the specific gate information when spotting from the Speedway. I also like how you added a link to the spotting guide when you created the topic for t...

166695 C-40A arr 3/3 "CNV416" just landed NASNI after a missed approach. They actually flew over Pt Loma, so I'm sure the tower had something to say about that.

So, if you think the C-40 was part of RF 22-2 support, do we know WHICH Navy Squadron will be there?

....aaannndddd they got it back

https://news.usni.org/2022/03/03/navy-r ... -china-sea

It's the 3rd year they've done it, and it looks to continue in the future. As usual gossip was flying around the hay bales in between flights and some people were saying that the team would NOT be practicing the 'Super Delta' 12 plane joint formation. YMMV.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51914466121_1b3246f08c_b.jpg morning take off https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51914467916_d0e22830e6_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51913504257_ca810a9aed_b.jpg Note TBirds enlisted taking pix/vid from end of runway https://live.staticflickr.com/65...

28 Feb

Never been here before, so I snuck over between the morning and afternoon launches at El Centro. Was very lucky because there was a Cobra on the ramp that took off not even 10 minutes after I got there.

USMC VMLAT-303
Bell AH-1Z
QT 612 Buno 168000

28 Feb 2022 Morning temp 56F/13C Afternoon temp 91F/31C no clouds no other aircraft on base besides the 2 teams this was a Monday, so bulk of flying was over the ranges, not the airfield Morning Blue Angels 8a departure 1 165534 2 165782 3 165666 4 165679 //F model, T-Bird in the back seat 5 165536 ...

per Flightaware and Youtube, the Thunderbirds arrived at NAF El Centro yesterday. Last year they were there for a week, YMMV. Thunderbird 14 (the C-17) came and left. I'll be out there maybe tomorrow (Sat) or early next week for photos. If anybody is out here for Red Flag, well.... We had rain and s...

Not sure if already posted here, didn't see it yet. But if so, moderators plz remove mine. SAAB is offering 88 Gripens (Canadians pronounce it as Grypen..) to replace the CF-188s, along with extensive opportunities for the local industries. Someone dare call this an improvement? Speaking strictly f...

I love having the scanner but I am terrible at picking out call signs*, never did get one for the CF-18s. I only saw them take off Wednesday, never saw them land or saw them at all on Thursday or Friday. Funny thing was, the tanker was the only aircraft I saw all 3 days,so I am guessing the Canadian...