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I’m my office downtown. It’s rained lightly on and off. Clouds around 1200/1300 feet or so maybe? Almost nothing flying at all. Occasional helicopter traffic and a sea plane has loitered around a bit. Reached out to the four leaf Airshow Instagram acct and they said they didn’t have any updates re any photo flights at all.
Thanks so much!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fighting Falcon
For the folks who are monitoring the beach, FRG or Islip, if it looks like photo missions might be happening if you could post it here I’d appreciate it. Keeping an eye out while I’m working.
F35s have returned to the beach. Some have reported that they are visible through the cloud cover.
Was looking at a adsb and the F-35 just landed. Did some kind of practice and it was doing many passes with some down to 600'Quote:
Originally Posted by Fighting Falcon
SuperHornet demo for last 15 min or so
Thunderbirds leaving ISP soon
From what I can gather…
- F35C, F35B, Growlers, Rhino, David Windmiller, and TBirds all performed today at practice
- Both Growlers flew in the demo, only the singular Rhino
- Growlers did a flyover at FRG, Rhino did not (weather was moving in at the airport which may have been a factor)
- TBirds started at around 2:05pm with just the two opposing solos. The Diamond joined about 10-15 minutes later. The opposing solos headed back to ISP at around 2:48pm while I believe the Diamond continued on. During the show both the Diamond and Solos typically enter and exit together.
- About 30 minutes after the practice ended, several Warbirds from AAM took to the skies
- While some lots at the beach filled up earlier in the day, there were plenty of open spots and not much traffic throughout the morning. I would expect large crowds with early parking lot closures tomorrow and Sunday.
Anyone other tidbits of info are welcome
Does anyone have a time schedule for each performer, specifically those flying out of Republic?
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Originally Posted by Fighting Falcon
The Super Hornet actually used RWY 19 for takeoff and landing today at FRG so the people at the AAM got quite a show.
The 2 Growlers used RWY 14 to takeoff and when they returned they did a break to land and used RWY 32
This evening Louis Horschel arrived in his Corsair and is parked in the new South Hangars by the Golden Knights aircraft.
The P-51 "Gunfighter" also arrived this evening and is currently parked next to the B-29 "Doc" on the AAM Ramp.
Thanks ChrisQuote:
Originally Posted by Chris S
Happy air show day everyone.
The Golden Knights departed FRG at around 9:25am. The Farmingdale Flyers departed about 10 minutes earlier and are currently getting into formation over Robert Moses. Doc is up in the air giving rides over the North Shore.
106th rescue C130, staging to the north, just landed at FRG.
106th up next, followed by Rhino demo team at 10:45
Rhino team up and circling north of the beach
The C-17 is circling south of Robert Moses with another jet (no id) wasn't there supposed to be a NORAD demo? An F-16?
Warbird thunder currently performing at the beach; AAM warbirds, including Doc, currently taxiing at FRG
Yes NORAD is supposed to have an F16 for an interdiction demoQuote:
Originally Posted by dekdawg21
F35 heading towards the beach about 5 mins ago
Growlers to take off momentarily
David Windmiller en route from FRG
Just curious, did the Rhino use RWY 19 again today?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fighting Falcon
BTW, the approximate start times for the show today were:
10:00 - Golden Knights Flag with Windmiller circling them
10:20 - 106th SAR Demo
10:40 - Rhino Demo
11:00 - Warbird Thunder
11:15 - F-35B Demo
11:30 - American Airpower Warbirds and Doc
12:00 - Growler Demo
12:15 -105th C-17 flybys
12:30 - Aarron Deliu
12:45 - F-35C Demo and Legacy Flight with Corsair
1:15 - Golden Knights
1:40 - David Windmiller
2:00 - Thunderbirds
The F-18 Rhino had an Engine Flameout after takeoff for the legacy flight and had to return to FRG. Actually made an Arrested Cable Landing. Pretty cool to see.
Speaking of Arrested Cable Landing, here is that same CAG Super Hornet on Thursday testing out the cable when it arrived on Thursday.Quote:
Originally Posted by bgny61
Great video by Jake Innes on Youtube catching it and other arrivals on Thursday >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnrk8Kzx_1I
Not sure, only saw them from take off from a distanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Chris S
Happy Sunday - beautiful weather for an air show down at the beach. A little windy but nothing crazy. Blue skies with some clouds supposed to be rolling in around 1pm. Plenty of parking as of 8:30am.
Ribbons just dropped from Golden Knights (circling above with Aarron Deliu)
What will or won't do an FRG fly-by? My daughter just asked to go "to Stewie's for ice cream" so might be an excuse to come to the FRG one and hang out in their parking lot.
FYI - I talked to the Rhino and Growler Demo Teams over the weekend and they're both scheduled to depart this morning from FRG.
This info was gotten before the engine problem with the Super Hornet CAG Bird so I'm not sure if their departure will be delayed or not.
FYI - the 3 Growleers departed around noon today but the 2 Super Hornets are still at FRG.
I'm not sure if their CAG jet is fixed yet or when or if they'll be departing FRG on Tuesday?
The F-35C, F-35B Demo teams and the T-Birds should all be departing ISP Tues. morning.
I don't know the exact times but heard probably between 8AM - Noon if all goes well.
Just heard the F-35B Demo Team departed sometime this afternoon from ISP,
so just the F-35Cs and T-Birds should be departing ISP in the morning.
Well, all of the military jets for the Air Show departed yesterday besides the Super Hornet Demo team at FRG.
Apparently they're still waitng for parts to fix the jets but heard they should be leaving by no later than Thurs.
Saw a third Hornet was at the airport today from VFA-106 and it departed with the E that was here from the air show. CAG jet looked like it was still being worked on as of about 4:45 pm today.
Posted this in "aviation" section aswell.
Hi all. F18 just flew over my house which is in line with Republic's runway 14 approach. Couldn't see any markings because of the very low cloud cover.