Thunderbirds Flyover Las Vegas

[Nordie]

Starting at 2:30pm tomorrow in the Las Vegas Valley

 

[River Runnin]

Thunderbirds are go! -- FAB!

 

[yz450mm]

Badass. I think the Blue Angels should be doing multiple shows trailing the Red White and Blue Smoke as well, time to get some spirits up.

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[Carlson-jet]

As cool as it is that they are flying over, that is an odd looking flight pattern.
Is that the one hung low?

 

[FreeBird236]

I wish they'd come a little farther south.

 

[LuauLounge]

Those boys don’t do social distancing. Fortunately, they have masks and enclosed cockpits. So, if it starts at 2:30, what are they going to be doing at 2:40?
Love it, they must be going nuts with no shoes going on.

 

[Nordie]

I might see them twice I live at approx the red dot. I mean I see them practice all the time,

but I'll be outside watching.

 

[RandyH]

Don't get nervous untill you see the C-130s flying over.

 

[Nordie]

If you're on Facebook they have them live right now

 

[Nordie]

Grabbed a few, but they're not that good.

My 81 year old veteran neighbor outside waiting as well

Best I could get from cell phone and my roof

 

[beaverretriever]

We all hung out in the front yard and damnit they didn't fly down far enough close enough to Mead. we are on the last street before the lake and we could hear them and that's it. ugh

 

[185EZ]

 

[Kfabe]

It was definitely really cool to see.

 

[Nordie]

https://www.facebook.com/66197856671/posts/10158417969976672

 

[82daytona]

Merica

 

[Nordie]

I knew the pictures would get better via social media

 

[Nordie]

https://www.facebook.com/126191801302/posts/10158290094741303

 

[Nordie]

I hope this one works

https://www.facebook.com/196888267568053/posts/544234249500118

 

[t&y]

That is badass. Wish they would do that here, but I'm sure some snowflake would get all upset and complain.

 

[Nordie]

 

[DirtyWhiteDog]

They were a few hundred yards from my house when they were on the way to Boulder city, and right over on the way back.

 

[DirtyWhiteDog]

Welp, guess i can't figure out how to upload pics and video. Keep getting, oops we ran in to problems

 

[napanutt]

I hope this one works

https://www.facebook.com/196888267568053/posts/544234249500118

That’s bad ass except downtown looks like something from a movie set, apocalyptic type shit.

 

[Nordie]

Whats funny about this picture is the three planes on the ground are also Air Force. They're called Janet, and are used to fly people back and forth to area 51.

 

[Nordie]

How it ended up

 

[charred1]

I guess this is why the Blue Angels didn’t fly through Vegas!

 

[Not_Tonto]

Don't get nervous untill you see the C-130s flying over.

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Hey man, C-130 lives matter!

 

[Not_Tonto]

 

[Not_Tonto]

The perks of living on base. Never gets old.

 

[rivermobster]

Thanks guys. Awesome thread.

 

[Hallett Dave]

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Whats funny about this picture is the three planes on the ground are also Air Force. They're called Janet, and are used to fly people back and forth to area 51.

The aircraft pictured are not US Air Force. They are contract aircraft.
Back in the 80's they would launch out of The Skunk Works at Plant 42 in Palmdale with different JANET call signs.
They would contact us at Edwards AFB approaching the boundary of R-2515 where they would request flight following through R-2515 and Shoshone MOA ATCA in R-2508 on the way to their filed destination of Desert Rock. We would hand them off to LA Center where we would soon lose RADAR contact.
We knew where they were going as Desert Rock at that time was a closed civil airfield with a closed runway.
Just a bit of my experience back in the days of the F-117 and B-2.
Area 51 falls under the command of the Fight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base.

 

[TPC]

 

[rvrrat350]

That is badass. Wish they would do that here, but I'm sure some snowflake would get all upset and complain.

they did over LA last year

The Air Force's Thunderbirds stunt planes flew in formation over the Hollywood Premiere of “Captain Marvel” on Mar. 4, 2019. The Air Force's Thunderbirds were in Southern California Monday afternoon to fly over landmarks across Los Angeles and buzz over the Hollywood premiere of "Captain Marvel."Mar 4, 2019

 

[yz450mm]

The aircraft pictured are not US Air Force. They are contract aircraft.
Back in the 80's they would launch out of The Skunk Works at Plant 42 in Palmdale with different JANET call signs.
They would contact us at Edwards AFB approaching the boundary of R-2515 where they would request flight following through R-2515 and Shoshone MOA ATCA in R-2508 on the way to their filed destination of Desert Rock. We would hand them off to LA Center where we would soon lose RADAR contact.
We knew where they were going as Desert Rock at that time was a closed civil airfield with a closed runway.
Just a bit of my experience back in the days of the F-117 and B-2.
Area 51 falls under the command of the Fight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base.

Ever have any interaction with the Hawes radio relay site in Hinkley? We used to go out there in the late 90s as teenagers and explore the bunker, there was some weird and creepy shit going on out there at the time. Once the 2 kids got executed, they imploded the bunker and leveled the site.

 

[Hallett Dave]

Ever have any interaction with the Hawes radio relay site in Hinkley? We used to go out there in the late 90s as teenagers and explore the bunker, there was some weird and creepy shit going on out there at the time. Once the 2 kids got executed, they imploded the bunker and leveled the site.

The B-1 used the old MARS radio antenna as a check point on one of their RADAR low level Terrain Following routes in R-2515.
One day a B-1 was flying the route and from a distance the Hawes tower did not appear on their RADAR. After flying over where the tower used to be they realized the antenna had been dismantled.