A B-2 bomber just flew over my house!

[lastlib]

Not directly over, but certainly within a mile of me!

It was doing a flyover of area hospitals as a salute to medical workers. The B-2s are based at Whiteman AFB, about 60 miles or so from me. It was quite an impressive sight!

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[DemoTex]

1. It was F-16s in South Carolina yesterday ..

Same mission.

[Lochloosa]

2. And all we get are the F-14 Tomcat

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[sl8]

10. Are you in Iran?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. I was thinking, aren't they getting up there by now?

I used to be stationed at Patuxent River. I've seen a few F-14s.

[sl8]

19. If Wikipedia's correct, Iran is the only country that still operates them.

According to the Wikipefia article, the last one to fly for the USN was in 2006.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat

I remember discussing their retirement with an aviator that had moved from the F-14 to the F-18, back in 1999.

[sweetloukillbot]

3. I saw there was supposed to be a flyover in Phoenix, but I'm not sure when.

I'm a mile away from a hospital though, so I'm sure I'll see/hear it.

[IggleDuer]

17. Scheduled for Friday, around 3-4 PM ...

... depends on where you are.

[JuJuYoshida]

4. that would be the sound of freedom you're hearing

[Aristus]

5. A salute to medical workers?

How about grounding the plane, and saving the cost of the flight (how many thousands of dollars would that one flight have cost?), then donating the money saved to pay for protective equipment for those very medical workers?

[lastlib]

11. yeah, honestly, the logic escapes me!

Those things don't fly cheap! It would make sense to normal people to save the money and direct it into PPE for those med-workers, or (heaven forfend!) TESTING for virus victims--but this is the age of tRump, where up is down, truth is falsehood, and logic is insanity.

The same mentality that wanted a military parade in front of donnie's dump, the White House.

[cloudbase]

13. Flying is a perishable skill.

Military pilots have a minimum monthly requirement of time flying to be considered current.
Private pilots, not so much. All a private pilot has to do is pass a flight review every two years.
If I show my logbook to the instructor administering that flight review and s/he sees only twenty
hours of flight time in the last two years, I can guarantee you I'll get a tougher review than somebody
who has 200 hours of logged time in that same period.

[Major Nikon]

15. Airline and charter pilots get a more rigorous check every 6 months

I know lots of current and former military pilots from all over the world. Almost universally they report getting very little flight time compared to commercial pilots.

[Golden Raisin]

6. We had Thunderbirds and Blue Angels today in NYC.

[rickford66]

7. We had some geese and an occasional hawk.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. It's not the "sound of freedom." It's the sound of PPEs being burned before they can be used.

Fat Donnie loves his airplanes. It's better in his mind to waste a million dollars in fuel and maintenance than to provide 100 hospitals with personal protective equipment for their health workers, or 50,000 citizens with COVID-19 tests. Who cares how many people get infected or die from this little stunt? Maybe Trump will go out and stand in a group of people protesting their right to spread the disease, since the health workers will most certainly be too busy saving lives in the ICU.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. It flew directly over my house!

It was really close to the ground. There were two other groups behind it.

I only got my camera ready for the last group.

[lastlib]

12. The groups behind were A-10 Warthogs....

and T-38 Talons.

(Just curious, where do you live? (you can DUmail me if you want.))

[Cracklin Charlie]

14. Independence, MO

Home of President Harry S Truman.

[Major Nikon]

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