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  1. 2005-09-11, 04:38 PM #1
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    A-10s In The Neighborhood

    Four A-10s just did a flyover at the US Open men's final. Anyone see them?
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
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  2. 2005-09-11, 04:56 PM #2
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    Saw them on TV first then out our Towers windows, on a SW heading they looked great, did a 180 degree turn over Corona at a few hundred feet then flew NE then disappeared NE of LGA, very cool !

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  3. 2005-09-12, 06:50 PM #3
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    Were they the only military aircraft our over the LGA area yesterday?

    My wife called me yesterday at...well, had to be before 4 PM, and told me that 4 "fast planes" might be headed my way. At the time, she was in Whitestone Queens. So it sounds like what she saw.

    But when i asked if they were straight wings vs tirangular shaped, she just said the noses looked pointy (cute, right?)

    They never got to melville though :) so I assume she saw the A-10s
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  4. 2005-09-12, 07:37 PM #4
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    It appears those same 4 A-10's also did a flyover at the Meadowlands yesterday for the Giants opener, saw a brief replay on Ch 7 sports tonight,
    probably replay it again at 1100, lasted about 1 second !

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  5. 2005-09-12, 08:51 PM #5
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    I think there may have been a lot of non-game related military jets around yesterday, maybe in part to protect arriving dignitaries and for the memorial services. During the day I spotted a small jet around FL200 moving very quickly from a distance. And last night around 9pm I saw a weird bunch of 6 or 7 planes at high altitude with odd strobe lights and flying in a semi-formation, each at least a mile apart, but all flying on the same heading to the southeast.
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
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