View Full Version : Raptor in CO?!
ChunkyMonkey
10-06-2010, 09:07
Someone confirm please? I am seeing 2 F-22 raptors in the South Metro sky.
Zundfolge
10-06-2010, 09:09
Dunno about South Metro, but I've seen 'em around The Springs recently.
We see them often in Colorado Springs, fun to watch at the AF games, they come in low, kick in the AB and climb 5k ft under full power straight up. Leaves everyone shaking and quiet for a minute. Good stuff.
Welcome to CO Ken!!!! We got em too [Weight]
Down here we have everything.
This past weekend was an air show and they had Raptos, Hornets, Warthogs, and even old biplanes, etc. It was neat. I didn't even have to go as I could sit on my front porch and watch them through the binocs.
Zundfolge
10-06-2010, 09:29
http://www.aviationspectator.com/files/images/F-22-Raptor-163.jpg
Here's a link to a much bigger version. (http://www.millennium-ark.net/index_images/USAFA_F22.jpg)
ChunkyMonkey
10-06-2010, 09:49
Nah, no raptors are assigned to specifically Buckley Airbase... otherwise I would ve camped out and take some pictures. The only raptors in CO are in the Springs for the recent air show.
Per my calls, they said, those raptors are probably on transit. Darn it!
Seen em when fishing at 11 mile straiffing the lake.
I heard some guys flyin loud this morning, a few hours ago...were they Raptors?
I know I saw some Hornets a few days ago...their tail end looks similar to the F-22...
There was something this weekend (I think it was a 14, but what do I know) so low and loud that it rattled a few pictures off my wall. So much win!!!
Some of you guys on here who are pilots (whether fast birds or commercial), I envy y'all so much.
Probably wasn't a F-14...they were sent to the boneyard last year.
A few years ago an F-15 Eagle flew low enough to shake some stuff off my walls...
OgenRwot
10-06-2010, 12:54
Somethin was flyin around down here this morning. I couldn't see what they were from my vantage point due to the low cloud cover but they definitely weren't traffic out of Centennial that's for sure.
Could hear the roar coming forever before they finally passed overhead at my place...
Probably wasn't a F-14...they were sent to the boneyard last year.
Dunno, they had those moveable wings. I thought that was the 14? It doesn't matter. What does matter is that it was AWESOME!!
I missed the airshow, but I did see an F-4 flying around. That was cool, it had been a long time.
SideShow Bob
10-06-2010, 17:04
Gentlemen,
That is the sound of freedom. They are still flying around Buckley, but I haven't gone out to see what they are. Seems there is a lot of them, more than normal.
a couple of years ago I was working down in FL. One of the cell sites was right outside Tyndall AFB, almost at the end of the runway. Got to see F-22s take off right over my head. That was pretty damn cool.
a couple of years ago I was working down in FL. One of the cell sites was right outside Tyndall AFB, almost at the end of the runway. Got to see F-22s take off right over my head. That was pretty damn cool.
That's as close as you could get, huh?
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/89Sunbird/Tyndall110.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/89Sunbird/Tyndall113.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/89Sunbird/Tyndall114.jpg
Did they look anything like this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/TennVol/USAF/DSCF3263.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/TennVol/USAF/DSCF3280.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/TennVol/USAF/DSCF3271.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/TennVol/USAF/DSCF3274.jpg
U gunna be in Gitmo before the weekend, now...
theGinsue
10-06-2010, 19:58
All those millions of dollars for each of our fighter aircraft and I'll never get over how remarkably uncomfortable those seats always look.
U gunna be in Gitmo before the weekend, now...
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Posting the cockpit of our state of the art fighter jet[NoEvil]
Troublco
10-06-2010, 21:04
F-22's come through Buckley periodically. We also have a lot of F-15's, 16's, and 18's come through. All the -14's are gone, not even to the boneyard. The Navy stripped them and cut them up to prevent the Iranians from ever getting any parts from them. A lot of the noise is probably our own F-16's. Depending on the day, sometimes we put up a bunch of them.
I love going out to Jewell and 470 and watching them takeoff and land on the runway nearby....
Posting the cockpit of our state of the art fighter jet[NoEvil]
Cockpit photos of F-22's are old news - (yawn).
If that photo had been posted, say, ten years ago, then maybe there would be a problem. But these days the photos are everywhere.
.....Google it and you'll be overwhelmed with photos!
hollohas
10-07-2010, 08:53
I love going out to Jewell and 470 and watching them takeoff and land on the runway nearby....
They are always flying low and slow over Aurora Gun Club. I think they are coming in to land when they fly directly over the top of the range.
On a little different note, my wife's parents live very close to the South Site and a couple times per month there is some sort of military exercise going on over their house at night. Lots of Helicopters coming in and circling directly above the sub-division for hours. Anyone have a clue what that might be? We visit sometimes and I love to watch and listen to it but it's a pain in the ass when I am trying to get my baby to sleep and all the damn windows are rattling and the paintings are shaking on the wall for an hour...
They truly are circling DIRECTLY above all the houses...makes me wonder what kind of training they are doing above a rural residential area...
OgenRwot
10-07-2010, 09:34
Training...hahaha, those are the black helicopters circling over your house. They're coming for your guns and your extreme ideology. Where's your tinfoil hat? [ROFL2]
hollohas
10-07-2010, 09:47
Training...hahaha, those are the black helicopters circling over your house. They're coming for your guns and your extreme ideology. Where's your tinfoil hat? [ROFL2]
I was afraid of that, but I'm ready.
http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/1/1/5/8/0/tinfoil_hat.jpg
gnihcraes
10-07-2010, 19:26
Yesterday, one F16, west bound over downtown, in a hurry, but obviously not under full power, happens every few days, sometimes more than one.
Love it. Great sound and thoughts of freedom!
SA Friday
10-07-2010, 23:18
They are always flying low and slow over Aurora Gun Club. I think they are coming in to land when they fly directly over the top of the range.
AGC and the fields around it are considered a potential ditch site for the yard-darts. Just sayin... If it's flyin funny (1 engine plus 1 flame-out plus zero glide slope equals instant brick), might be time to go.[Coffee]
Love it. Great sound and thoughts of freedom!
You would think that...
Sept 12th, everyone loved the noise of our planes.
Nows we get noise complaints all the time.
I thought we were talking about a big featherless chicken looking thing with lots of teeth... [Tooth]
http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/1217/1274672074308.jpg
Troublco
10-09-2010, 06:53
They are always flying low and slow over Aurora Gun Club. I think they are coming in to land when they fly directly over the top of the range.
Our pilots can't come back and just land. The only time I remember them doing a straight-in approach was after Sep. 11th. Otherwise, they come back and do 2-4 touch and goes every flight. AGC just happens to be under the flight path if they turn to the east at the north end of the runway.
I was leaving base Wednesday afternoon and a couple had just come back doing their usual show circling to the west. I don't think they were more than 500' up as they came around over my truck with the throttle pushed up. Even after almost 24 years that's still impressive! Makes you wonder what's going through the Taliban's mind as they watch 'em pickle off ordnance...[Abused]
ChunkyMonkey
10-09-2010, 08:13
Can I steal those pictures for mpnet?
Colorado Osprey
10-09-2010, 21:53
I thought we were talking about a big featherless chicken looking thing with lots of teeth... [Tooth]
I thought they were referring to the new off road, street legal Ford Truck called the Raptor.
http://www.fordpic.com/Ford/2009/09/Ford_Raptor_4.jpg
http://www.motorbeam.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Ford_F-150_Raptor_R_Wallpaper.jpg
Thats not new. I saw it at the Denver Auto Show like 2 years ago...
Colorado Osprey
10-11-2010, 05:00
Thats not new. I saw it at the Denver Auto Show like 2 years ago...
True, but you can actually buy one now at the stealerships.
hollohas
10-11-2010, 13:39
Our pilots can't come back and just land. The only time I remember them doing a straight-in approach was after Sep. 11th. Otherwise, they come back and do 2-4 touch and goes every flight. AGC just happens to be under the flight path if they turn to the east at the north end of the runway.
I was leaving base Wednesday afternoon and a couple had just come back doing their usual show circling to the west. I don't think they were more than 500' up as they came around over my truck with the throttle pushed up. Even after almost 24 years that's still impressive! Makes you wonder what's going through the Taliban's mind as they watch 'em pickle off ordnance...[Abused]
I don't know what's going through their mind when they see that but I'm sure piss is going through their pants!
Them doing touch and goes must be why it seems like there are always 10-12 of them. Must just be 3 or 4. I stop what I'm doing and watch them every time.
@SA Friday - As for the area around AGC being a potential ditch site...I guess I better start looking up more often. Trying to scare me off because your name is on the waitlist? I'm not going anywhere so you'll have to scare someone else off with stories of potentially being hit by a falling jet. :D
I had the pleasure of being the target of a couple simulated strafing runs by a pair of Blackhawks on Jewell and Gun Club :)
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