1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Super Guppy would be super cool to see. It never occurred to me that a B-52 was that rare, but I suppose it is for most people.

Being adjacent to the Air Force Academy and a few bases, we get all sorts of things flying over. The Air Force will have planes fly over the campus when the cadets are lined up so they can see all the cool stuff they might get to work on if they play their cards right. The planes will often loiter over my home and work until it's time for the fly-by.

Some fighters did a fly-over for a football game a few weeks ago. My buddy looked up the flight path and said they spent most of their time between 400 and 700 feet above ground. It was so cloudy that we couldn't see them even at that altitude, until their last pass when I saw them flying toward me at what looked like eye level.

I think the rarest I've seen is an E-4B. There have been B-52, B-1, B-2, all of the more common cargo planes, fighters, and helicopters. It's cool when something unique shows up but the fighters in particular can be a nuisance.

The local commercial airport shares runways with Peterson Space Force Base. I was on a plane taxiing to take off once saw a C-40 landing.

 

That's the heaviest variant offered to the Corps; the Eagle MVT

 

So to clarify I consider a B-52 rare to be seen flying over San Angelo, TX. Super Guppy is the last of it's kind but even it is less rare to see than a B-52 over our skies. Since it's based out of El Paso we just catch it on it's way to the Johnson Space Center.

We don't have an Air Force base with an active flight line and Dyess AFB to or north means we just don't see them. First I've seen one here in 7 years.

 

Today I learned about the "Essential Air Service" program. It subsidizes flights to/from small airports that are more than 210 miles away from a large or medium air hub.

My mom told me today that the family Christmas gathering will be at her mom's place in west-central Illinois. In the past I've driven (~10 hours from Colorado Springs) or taken Amtrak from Chicago to Quincy (~4 hours on the train), but it looks like I can fly from Chicago to Quincy (~2 hours on the plane) for less than $150 round-trip (on top of the flight to Chicago).

The route is run by Southern Express Airways, using a Cessna Caravan--a single-turboprop, high-wing with room for 9 passengers.

My uncle flew from St Louis to Quincy years ago and said he got to sit in the copilot's seat because there was nobody else on the plane.

Sounds like fun.

 

Ik you wore your grain and neck guard too

 

I feel like a shit box is cheaper than this setup and you could actually wheel it.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_05KVSC68H/?igsh=NXJlcG5jbXNoeTFk

 

Why turn your toy car into a video game when you can turn your real car into a video game.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y_Q0JDjm8yc

 

Now thats the good stuff

 

I’ve seen a few Buffs fly over our place on their way in/out of Edwards AFB in the desert here. Always crazy to see just how freaking huge the Buff wingspan is

 

We just signed the paperwork on the deal for our first house. Not a minute too soon either as we have to leave our rental home by the end of the month…we were starting to get nervous. All goes well with inspections and we should have the keys by Thanksgiving

 

I just confirmed that it was a flyover for our local university military appreciation night. If I’d known I would’ve considered going to the game.

 

Worse can you can always crash at the Pilates studio lol

 

Yeah living between travis AFB and Moffet AFB as well as he have fleet week every year here in the bay area we get to see alot of stuff around here too.

 

I….I actually hadn’t thought of that

 

I can do that with my eyes on demand, but every once in a while it'll happen to me uncontrolled and I get super nauseated, like some sort of micro seizure or something. The first time I remember it happening I was staring at the sealing in my grandparents house while laying on the couch with a broken ankle waiting to go to the ER after wrecking a dirt bike, Good times.

 

running around with that slapping your junk every other step they really should call it groin aggressors instead because that's what I needed protection from

 

Maintenance and then insurance is probably cheaper in the long run

 

Why would you even have one issued

 

So someone else could tactfully aquire it and make it impossible to check out years later after never touching it unless you wanted to buy it back from the nearest military surplus store

 

Having used my own suspension system was the best upgrade I had done in terms of comfort.