F14's are Coming!

[mirrodie]

pgengler, where weere you this morning? :)

How is this for drama? I took some photos of hte birds coming in and then had to run to hte office for 10 oclock patients.

While I was there, a patient drove in with a leaking gas tank (!!) This was the result. Life is never dull in our office!

[pgengler]

pgengler, where weere you this morning? :)

I ended up near the Home Depot, after a short bit of random driving around to try to find a better spot after I heard that 32 was the active (to no avail).

[mirrodie]

yes, New highway was my aim but when I saw how packed it was, I went elsewhere.


drove up to the mounds near home depot and didnt see you, plus the wind just didnt look right.

Too bad they just flew over hte once. They circled Bethpage quite a few times.

[lijk604]

There are no photos posted yet? C'mon guys....I cant get out there today or tomorrow, and am dying to see them this 1 last time.

[GrummanFan]

Last I heard was a departure time of 1:30. They will take off, come back for a low speed pass, then a high speed pass, then come back over the airport to pull straight up into the wild blue yonder, dissapearing into the Long Island skies forever. Wow, what a great start to summer...

[SengaB]

I was going to go but I just cant bring msyelf to travel from LI :(

Senga

[moose135]

I heard from different workers at the museum that the departure time was either 1pm or 1:30pm, so get there early, pack a lunch and enjoy.

I got out to New Highway about 9:00, I saw the wind was favoring Rwy32, so I parked down the end across from the approach end, right where it turns around the end of the runway. Fred stopped by, but headed further up north.

Here are a few from this morning; crappy weather for shooting, and a quick laptop edit job, but nonetheless...

[moose135]

Here are some from this afternoon over by the museum:















Yes, the guys from the museum were very good about letting people take pictures in front of the planes, even taking them for you:



Yes, that's the world famous tanker pilot...

[MORS-AB-ALTO]

It was nice to put faces with some name Scott, Jones Beach, Grumman
Fan. Well the rain held off, but the weather was crap for photography during the arrival. It was nice to see the Tomcats back home again, but i was very disappointed that that the only pass was the break to land and not even a touch and go? Hopefully they'll make up for tham tomorrow.

[Steven Holzinger]

Does anyone know if they are going to Willow Grove after departing?

[MORS-AB-ALTO]

If the pilots are at the reception tonight I'll ask them.

[SCOTYDEMCO]

Very nice day guys, I guess I should have went with the rest of you to the museum. Likewise Rob, great to meet Mors, Grummanfan, and Jonesbeach. Fred I hope you used up you card! I'll be back out tomorrow, Where we meeting?

[lijk604]

I was able to get the Mrs. to drive me to the Museum after she got out of work today, donated my $9 and share these 4 shots with the group.









Between Memorial Day weekend and today, the only military bird that I have wanted to photo, but has not visited NY is the F-22 Raptor.

[pgengler]

Here are the better photos I managed to get:

[moose135]

Took a ride over after work, and got a few more (OK, a bunch more) shots.

Sunset on the Tomcat...


They also brought out an old fire truck: