F16's

[RICHARD]

One of the "Fighting Falcons" based at Edwards AFB.

This plane is used as a chase plane for flight tests.

[Oggyflute]

I was stationed at Williamstown, Aus. when we got delivery of F-18's, which were replacing the old Mirage delta wing. Unfortunately I never got to go up in one, but did manage to sit in the sim, which was pretty cool.
Richard, I missed out on the Edwards air show in my time, got sent to Hong Kong I think, but the guys that went there said they put on the best air show they have ever seen. Coming from flyboys that was quite a compliment.
Seeing Chuck Yeager fly a p51 Mustang, now that truly would have been a buzz. His autobiography is one of my favourite books.

[RobiLee]

When we were at the Bristol nascar race and the F-16's did their fly over I had chills up and down my body. They are awesome.

[anna_66]

Robin's right. When we were at Bristol it was my first encounter with them and all I could do was smile...and scream! Yes, I think I was actually screaming when they went by. It was so exciting!

[RICHARD]

Richard, I missed out on the Edwards air show in my time, got sent to Hong Kong I think, but the guys that went there said they put on the best air show they have ever seen. Coming from flyboys that was quite a compliment.
Seeing Chuck Yeager fly a p51 Mustang, now that truly would have been a buzz. His autobiography is one of my favourite books.

Since Edwards is out in the desert it's no limit flying!

The ONLY thing that you will not get is a high speed, sonic boom pass!

I was at Yeager's last military flight a few years ago. He opened the show with a sonic boom, landed and gave a little speech...

He then turned in all his "keys" to the planes on the base.

He also flew a "Heritage Flight" - They team up a WWII plane with a modern fighter- His P-51 and a F-18- Joe Engle, the only man to fly two different winged aircraft into space (X-15 and the shuttle) flew the -18!

Watching Yeager fly about wasn't a buzz, it was an all out heart attack for me!!!

The last two 'acts' were really neat... There was a recreation of the attack on Pearl Harbor. They have 8 rebuilt Japanese WWII planes that buzz the field while they set off explosives. Mind boggling......and crazy!

The last is a flyby of all the planes in formation.

The cargo planes, fighters, bombers....The f-22, f-16, f-18, the B-52, c-17
c-130 and a bunch all in the air at one time!!!

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Four Falcons in formation is really cool.

Watching one go thru it's paces is phenomenal!

Standing about 500 feet away from one doing a low speed pass and then hitting the afterburner leaves you shaking...

You want to scream because the sound is so overwhelming! The noise is so much bigger than you are you have to make sure you are not lost in it all!!

I have one more roll to develop and then I can load all up!!

[RICHARD]

This p-51 was on static display...

[RICHARD]

This is a rare two seat Falcon. It's called the "Inflight Test Simulator".

The back seater can make the this plane handle like the space shuttle.
It's used by NASA to train the shuttle pilots.

[Oggyflute]

Standing about 500 feet away from one doing a low speed pass and then hitting the afterburner leaves you shaking...

You want to scream because the sound is so overwhelming! The noise is so much bigger than you are you have to make sure you are not lost in it all!!

I lived with that situation for near on six years. Probably explains my lack of hearing.