Re: Beale Air Show This Weekend


Message posted by lone wolf on June 03, 2006 at 20:54:33 PST:

I just got back from the Beale airshow. Rivet Joint has more bumps and lumps than the late John Candy. You can tour the inside of an USAF Awacs and get up close and personal with the U-2 trainer (two seater). I think the Beale Global Hawk as an extra antenna on top as compared to those at EDW. [To be researched.] Rather than roping off the Global Hawk, I was able to get close enough to shoot a self portrait off the front imaging sensor.

One of the Tbirds had a red light for a sensor failure, but decided to fly anyway since another team member had a similar problem at a show in Colorado. The rather silly Tbird song (only heard by those with a scanner) has been replaced with each member doing a few lines of prose (or maybe really bad poetry). This is not nearly as cool as the raunchy songs they used to sing, but perhaps more PC.


In Reply to: Beale Air Show This Weekend posted by Will(NorCal) on June 01, 2006 at 6:04:46 PST:

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