Cool stuff, you saw today.....

ScampMike said

we live about 40-50 miles from the nearest AFB so we don't get much traffic from them out this way BUT, every once in a while we'll get some "hot doggers" who will go low (as in "tree top" under the radar) and go ripping over this area... pretty awesome to be out in the back yard on a Sunday afternoon and have two Warthogs or F-15's come screaming at ya out of nowhere -- there are mountains to my east and west which is where they always come from - (north and south would follow the main interstate, they aren't going to do that) and do a high speed fly-over way out here. A few years ago I was fortunate enough to be outside when they flew over and one of the pilots saw me waving at them - he spun around gave me a "wing tip" as he headed back out - that was pretty dang cool.

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I remember going to one of the aforementioned air shows and striking up a conversation with an F-14 pilot and his RIO. I was sixteen or so at the time and applying myself to graduate and go on to become an F-15 pilot in the Air Force.

Of course, they were walking recruitment posters for the Navy. My brother in law was career Navy (he tried to recruit me, too).

They were there for static display and didn't fly a demonstration and we talked for a couple of hours.

When it came time for them to leave I was standing right in front of the crowd at the fenced in area for the taxi way.

The RIO saw me standing there waving to them and tapped his pilot on the shoulder. He brought the plane to a halt, set the brake, and firewalled the throttle. In perfect synchronization they both snapped off a salute to me then waved as much as the canopy would allow them to, before the pilot popped the brake and slid on out to the runway.