• Hey Guest!
    British Car Forum has been supporting enthusiasts for over 25 years by providing a great place to share our love for British cars. You can support our efforts by upgrading your membership for less than the dues of most car clubs. There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Upgraded members don't see this banner, nor will you see the Google ads that appear on the site.)
Tips
Tips

Bird watching

Share this page

DrEntropy

DrEntropy

Great Pumpkin
Platinum
Country flag
Offline
I consider it lucky that th' hovel is under the usual approach to an air base. I get to see all sorts of neat flying objects. A C-17 just scooted overhead at about 1200ft. Occasionally we see F-16's. Lots of KC-135's (they 'live' here), sometimes a C-130. The Coasties have a 130 and an HH-53 they put a lot of hours on, and the JAX kids use the place as a turn-around point for their P-3 practice runs.
I can usually I.D. the birds by their sound alone. :laugh:
 
You brought back memories doc.... I used to watch'em going in and out of MacDill. I remember being very vigilant when I was flying out of Peter O'Knight to keep my peeps open for traffic.
 
Oh yeah! Used to ride a 'copter outta Peter O now-and-again for aerial pix of buildings an' suchlike. Head on a swivel, high traffic area... and most are fast movers, too. :wink:
 
Part of my growing up ('49-'54) was in Jax Beach, FL, just a few miles south of the new carrier basin and NAS at Mayport. Aircraft that I saw on a daily basis included everything the AF and Navy was flying and was the training base for the new Pakistani AF flying P-51's.

Ours was a two story house on the beach and the planes would fly soooo loooow that one could almost look down into the cockpits. I'm talking 20' off the deck and they had to climb to clear the pier. I still have a chunk of cockpit cover that landed in the street when a Panther jockey had to punch out as he cleared the coast, leaving the plane to crash into the sea about a mile away.

Interesting times.
 
Grew up in Shreveport; Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City LA. SAC base.

"Buffs" - B-52's - were constantly in and out of there.

And England Air Force Base was just south of us. Home of the "Warthogs" - A-10's.

Lots to marvel at up in the sky.
 
Oh, and Ft. Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne is here. Plenty of choppers, but they usually stay north of where I am.
 
Back
Top