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    F/A18 & The Cosair made a nice pass together at Republic
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    106th C-130 made two passes including touch and go and two passes including a real low one from The Raptor
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    I was hoping the Raptor was gonna make the low via 14. I was only able to see him breaking left from far away via my driveway.

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    VFA-106 heading home
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    Quote Originally Posted by fk6065 View Post
    VFA-106 heading home

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    B-17 just took off don't know if they are heading home or just a flight
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    B-17 is just doing flight ops
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    Had a blast this weekend at the airshow. I have just one for now. Working on rest very soon

    Raptor Baby!!!!!

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    Great shot. What a great surprise that was when he showed up. But please remember the "Baby" term is only to be used with Tomcats.
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    What a day. No problem getting in, parked by the Emergency Vehicles Staging area by the theater and was there by 8:15. By 8:20 it was POURING RAIN!!!! Oh boy I thought. But after awhile I saw clearing to the North and around 9 the Snowbirds flew in for a practice run. By 10 as I left my car the rain was beginning to end and by the time I got to the shoreline, my rain slicker was off and I switched from my long sleeve T to my sleeveless T. By 10:30 the sun was shining and we were off and running. Great show by all. Really love the Super Hornet. The storm had moved out but he was making his own thunder over the ocean. Great to see the F-22 but would have liked a few more high speed passes but what the heck. After a great set by the Snowbirds i headed up to the boardwalk to use the facilities, put the long sleeve T back on, my hat and more sunscreen!! Sun was brutal but I survived!! The Blue Angels just NEVER GET OLD!!! Man that was awesome!!
    So I made the decision as soon as the Blues did their last pass I was out of there!! Gotta tell you I heard complaints about traffic but from the shoreline to FGR Main Terminal in 40 minutes and that includes stopping at Dunkin for an Ice Tea!! Back where I parked there is a rear exit that goes directly onto the Wantagh!! I had used that in the past and knew it was a great escape route!!
    Back at FRG I saw them doing tire repair on Blue 5. Not sure what happened and one of the Snowbirds was over by the treeline off of Runway 1 doing engine runups!!
    Blue Angel 7 left around 4:20 off of 14. I had to leave at that point but there was no other activity with the rest of the Angels though they were loading Ernie up.
    Are they leaving tonite and could someone kindly update us on the departures of all the aircraft by the AAM?? Thanks.
    Wonderful Day now to a BBQ in the neighborhood to tell my friends what they missed!!

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    Angel number 6 said they will be leaving around 6 but I seen them working on 5 so who knows. Debating on heading back up there.

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    Any word on prowler and growler departures?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fk6065 View Post
    Great shot. What a great surprise that was when he showed up. But please remember the "Baby" term is only to be used with Tomcats.
    Ill take just a little bit of credit for this. Saw the f22 crew at the beach Fri and told them they MuST do some passes at frg aas there are lots of people there waiting to see them!

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    I saw the Airshow today for the 11th time. Ive been going since i was 5. Jones Beach today, tomorrow... To Republic! I don't like how the Administration at FRG decided to fence off the flight line, but hey.... what's a guy to do?
    I felt it was pretty spacious at first, but became much more restrictive when the show started. Might have something to do with the Vegas incident last year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rkfast View Post
    Any word on prowler and growler departures?
    See this thread

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