I messed up and originally posted this comment in the wrong thread instead of starting a new one. sorry. Anyway whats going on in corpus. I saw two f-18`s land and what I think was a t-38. The trainer that looks like an f-5 tiger. It could of been a tiger, i dont know. I also heard like four other jets circling the pattern while I was in class. Does anyone know why these jets are coming to NAS corpus? I have never seen them here before. Mainly mentors and every once in a while a goshawk.
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Whats up in corpus?
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we just had a safety standdown which just ended. One of our speakers is the XO of a Hornet squadron (The reason the Hornet is here) and another one of the speakers was a Commander from the Test Pilot School (which explains the T-38 most likely). As for the jets circling, we heard them during the standdown but i dont know where they're from.
a safety standdown is a mandatory pause from flying (every 90 days i believe or unless there is a big issue with safety) that mainly deals with flying safety. Most of it is just boring repetitiveness with interesting stories tossed in there. Today we had the XO of a Hornet squadron that shot down one of the first MiGs of the first Gulf War. I while back we had a Naval Astronaut, and farther than that we had one of the helo pilots that assisted in the rescue documented in the Perfect Storm. But mostly it deals with how to avoid mishaps, accidents and death.
Don't forget the entertaining guys from corpus approach... "And after watching our 40 R.A.P.T.O.R. radar tape...." Man I hated those guys... We just had SS here, 2 hours... topics... Beach safety, change to flightline ops and it was just the 2 advanced sqds primary had their own shin-dig.
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Drill baby drill!
i live out here in San Antonio, had to go pick up my dads truck from Randolph he took a space A out to VA.
As i was driving off i heard something go ripping by, they have a bunch of T-38s out here, but it didnt sound like one. My dad was out there the day before and said 2 phantoms were landing out there, chutes and all, he said they looked like trainers for some other country, he was thinking somewhere out in Asia.
But man Golf out there on the weekends is great, all the planes are out there, ive seen a few T-34s as well as an E/A-6, kinda hard to keep mind on the game when their up there.
My dad was 32 years in the Navy, Captain, retires, and decides to move to Texas, go figure.
As i was driving off i heard something go ripping by, they have a bunch of T-38s out here, but it didnt sound like one. My dad was out there the day before and said 2 phantoms were landing out there, chutes and all, he said they looked like trainers for some other country, he was thinking somewhere out in Asia.
But man Golf out there on the weekends is great, all the planes are out there, ive seen a few T-34s as well as an E/A-6, kinda hard to keep mind on the game when their up there.
My dad was 32 years in the Navy, Captain, retires, and decides to move to Texas, go figure.
The aircraft are in town for "Dare to Dream". Don't know too much about it, but they have a bunch of kids from the area come to the base while they do flyovers, have displays, etc. Didn't get the chance to check out the displays, but I did watch them bring a bunch of the aircraft in the day before while on standby. The Blackhawk tow was interesting...they brought it from across the street and clogged the taxiway while towing it at about 3mph.
There was a T-38 shooting approaches while I was playing golf Thurs. Then he went into the break for some bounces, lost some altitude on the break maneuver, so it was probably a student. It all seemed to happen so quick. The break must have been at 70 degrees AoB!! Definitely a good break from all the prop noise you hear in the golf course here in CC.
kmac said:70 degrees? That's it? He needs to pull a little harder
In my 7 months at Vance I never once saw a 38 do a break at anything over 70 degrees AOB, yet when I was at Corpus I never saw a 45 do a break at anything other than 90 degrees AOB, quite a sight to see!
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