Pease KPSM has seen a nice lift in transients since we've gone after ISIS. Because Pease is in NH and a good stop before heading overseas we see a lot of fighters heading over and on their way back.
What's funny is that some of the people I follow on IG shoot the same AC at Lakenheath the day before or after like this guy.
Caught these Growlers from Whidbey Island heading over and a few weeks later caught them heading back to WA state
inbound flights
midflight snacks, hope someone brought some milk because that sun is going to keep these warm
RW change for the 2nd group inbound
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#4051498 - 12/16/1402:31 PMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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I got a text that this group had just left England while I was 3 hours up North in the Mountains. Drove home and caught 12 hornets come in with 2 groups.
Each 6 ship had it's own KC-10
Had 6 birds on the 2nd group come in but was only able to line up 2 of them with the moon
Prowlers heading home
#4051504 - 12/16/1402:40 PMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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Very nice! Looks like you're able to get pretty close to the runway.
That's a lot of F-16s! I'm jealous, as I rarely see F-16s in my area, since it's a Navy/Marine town.
That Cobra is great, and I like that it's a Whisky. In the San Diego area, they've almost entirely converted to Zulus, and there's something about the overall shape of the Whisky that I think I prefer.
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Very nice! Looks like you're able to get pretty close to the runway.
That's a lot of F-16s! I'm jealous, as I rarely see F-16s in my area, since it's a Navy/Marine town.
That Cobra is great, and I like that it's a Whisky. In the San Diego area, they've almost entirely converted to Zulus, and there's something about the overall shape of the Whisky that I think I prefer.
thanks, we're probably 50 ft from the taxi way, the runway is a tad bit further away. Being a tanker base and old SAC base they needed more room to line them up for alert take offs.
We had the MD A-10's up here for a week doing training up North, totally forgot to even post them on my FB. Rumor has it some Eurofighters are supposed to come in next week as well.
Bangor ME gets most of the transient fighters from overseas when they come and go. 3 hours 1 way is tough to justify when you're not sure if they're coming for sure but my GF and youngest son went up last Fall and caught some Israel & Jordian 16's and I went back for some Tornado's later that week.
#4223609 - 01/31/1610:30 AMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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Interesting to see the TGP type thing under the nose:
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#4226748 - 02/08/1602:48 PMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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caught the Italian Typhoons, 2 767's (new KC-46) and 2 Italian Hercs come in last Sat. Haven't edited many shots yet, just these few. Terrible lighting when landing this way, hard to get a good vantage point with the sun behind you..
First group of 4 on the overhead break
Not sure if he's waving or actually slowing down...
short of touchdown
#4233411 - 02/25/1603:03 PMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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caught the Italian Typhoons, 2 767's (new KC-46) and 2 Italian Hercs come in last Sat. Haven't edited many shots yet, just these few. Terrible lighting when landing this way, hard to get a good vantage point with the sun behind you..
First group of 4 on the overhead break
Not sure if he's waving or actually slowing down...
short of touchdown
Hah! Good pics nevertheless. I think I know some of those guys!
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#4233521 - 02/25/1607:06 PMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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Hah! Good pics nevertheless. I think I know some of those guys!
oh really? We heard the pilot talking to some couple along the fence that they're coming back after RF. Nice article about the process they went through to make it happen. Now only if they'd use their AB's like the RAF does
Very happy to hear they'll be some more visits from the Italians.
Markings and fuselage numbering is clearly from our other base (Gioia del Colle) so I do not work there, but I've been there and we have EFA Drivers coming from all bases to train so- highly likely.
I'm always curious about Reheat usage. Despite the huge cost in fuel it's a nice thing to happen to watch...
"It takes forever +/- 2 weeks for the A-10 to get anywhere significant..." Ice
"Ha! If it gets him on the deck its a start!" MigBuster
"What people like and what critics praise are rarely the same thing. 'Critic' is just another one of those unnecessary, overpaid, parasitic jobs that the human race has churned out so that clever slackers won't have to actually get a real job and possibly soil their hands." Sauron
#4233796 - 02/26/1602:48 PMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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thanks Ken, I'm always harassing the guys I shoot with about stopped props, HUGE peeve of mine along with slanted horizons... I'd rather throw out 80% of my shots for a few keepers and a nice disk. This was at 1/100.
#4244258 - 03/29/1612:41 PMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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493rd FS from Lakenheath came in, 14 birds total. They came in just after a late season snowfall so the bellies were lit up nice and bright from the snow on the ground.
first shot is Reaper flight
next shot is Reaper lead, notice the 2 kill markings
Hitman 21 flight overhead
Had this one bird that had issues all week, even when they departed back to Lakenheath, they had to divert back to Barnes which is an Eagle base.
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#4359227 - 05/24/1703:33 PMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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Great stuff! I grew up on Pease AFB as a SAC brat. My old man was an FB-111 pilot and was the last squadron commander there before it closed. Went to school in Rye and Portsmouth and we still have a home near Wallis Sands beach.
Love that place. A lot of your pics are taken from the same places I used to watch from all day long or while performing SOF duty with my dad.
Keep em coming!
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#4359453 - 05/25/1705:41 PMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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Great stuff! I grew up on Pease AFB as a SAC brat. My old man was an FB-111 pilot and was the last squadron commander there before it closed. Went to school in Rye and Portsmouth and we still have a home near Wallis Sands beach.
Love that place. A lot of your pics are taken from the same places I used to watch from all day long or while performing SOF duty with my dad.
Keep em coming!
oh wow, that's cool. My ex father in law retired there when it closed, he was a CC for the FB-111's but I think moved up into the office more for scheduling maintenance. MSGT Roche if he remember's him.
I grew up just across the street from Yoken's and would see the FB's coming out of burner and would sit just off the runway on the overpass to 95 before they put that back road in for C&J...
thank you for your and your Dad's service!
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#4383337 - 10/05/1705:41 PMRe: Haven't posted some of our local base's visitors in a while.
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Had 2 Iraqi F-16, on their way to them from the factory divert 2 weeks ago. Once checked out by the Green Mountain Boys from VT which fly's the F-16 they were back on their way.
Foggy sunrise
cleared for flight
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