[MilCom] Re: Tyndall F-15s en route NAS Key West/Fort WorthF/A-18s

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Hi Rene & Group,

It's great to hear from you again too Rene.  

I heard the flights departing overhead as they took off to refuel with BLUE
## (KC-135R that seems to usually follow overseas flights).  I heard the one
MAZDA aircraft RTB at NAS Ft. Worth but I thought he'd just been killed off
early in an ongoing ACM exercise or something like that.  I went back to
sleep and didn't know the rest of the history of that night/early morning
until today.  

Take care, and thanks again for the help Rene ...

Brian Scott
Ft. Worth, TX


-----Original Message-----
From: milcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Milair
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 6:16 PM
To: milcom at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [MilCom] Re: Tyndall F-15s en route NAS Key West/Fort
WorthF/A-18s

Hello Brian and all,

At 16:41 31-3-2006 -0600, you wrote:

>VFA-201 has been doing a lot of flying in the D/FW area lately and I've
>heard them working with the MAZDA ## flights a few days ago. I've seen the
>MAZDA callsign mentioned so many times I figured it would be an easy lookup
>on the callsign databases online. No joy in ID'ing them there. The MAZDAs
>were launching around midnight to 0100 CST a few nights ago while NAS Ft.
>Worth appeared to have been hosting an exercise of some type.
>Unfortunately, I didn't get to hear much of it. But the MAZDA flight was
>using 142.6 AM as their air-to-air. Does anyone know which squadron/wing
>the MAZDAs might be? Thanks ...

Yes, good to see you here again btw ........... Mazda 11-16 were six 302FS 
F-16s departing from Ft. Worth enroute to Spangdahlem airbase here in
Europe.
Mazda 21-27 launched 35 minutes later and they were 457FS F-16s also going
to ETAD, but the airspare Mazda 27 returned to KNFW. They are all taking
part in the Brilliant Arrow exercise here and they should all be returning
to Texas next week, Friday April 7th. I have a soundclip available if you
would need it.

Hope this helps, best wishes from the Netherlands.


René.
Live ATC feed from the Netherlands
http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/eham.m3u