Night before last was a real treat. Me and the wife were walking the dog when the show stated. 4 F-16's were headed back to their base when 2 of them decided to play in a mock firefight. It was at dusk so you could just make out the plane but, could see the heat out of the back of the engines. They started playing around 7-10000 feet over our house and were going pretty quick till the first one kicked on the afterburners. You could see the tail section opening wide, the flames shooting out 5-10 feet behind the jet and the sound was deafening. In doing this, that jet took off like a rocket and was gone from sight almost immediately. The second joined persuit doing the same.
They would do this for a few seconds then cut them off and you could hear a loud pop and the flames would disappear from the tail end of the jets.

On one pass over our home, they both went vertical, kicked em on again, and must have gone up to 80000 feet before popping them off. What an awesome show of power!!!!!!!!!!!! The show lasted about 5 minutes and was incredible to watch.

posted 01-17-2004 04:21 PM         

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Originally posted by Gary C:
You were a pilot in the fast stuff? Cool if so

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posted 01-17-2004 04:43 PM         

Another SR-71 story over at:
http://www.prowleronline.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/010093.html

posted 01-17-2004 08:15 PM         

and way cool to see...thanks

posted 01-18-2004 12:19 AM         

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Originally posted by Kraut:
Here's a cool picture, you may have seen before. I actually witnessed this once on the Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, when an F-16 did a low fly-by. Just like this picture, the moisture in the air actually builds up in front of the plane, until the plane breaks through it as it breaks the sound barrier. It is way cool to watch.

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