[MilCom] F-117 Retirement Ceremony @ WP

[Duane Mantick]

You know, I sure wish they'd give more public notice
of this kind of stuff.......I'd have tried to get
there.........

Duane
WB9OMC

--- John Denney <den8yzc at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> Today there was a retirement ceremony for the F-117
> at Wright Patterson AFB.
> STEALTH 91 & 92 taxied out to rwy 23R and awaited
> the ceiling to lift 
> for a fly by.
> STEALTH 91 was finally cleared and took off and did
> one pass for the 
> crowd before coming back in for a full stop.
> STEALTH 91 had its underside painted with the
> American Flag.  After 
> 91 landed 92 taxied back to the hangar that was used
> for the ceremony.
> While this was happening LARVA 86 called the tower
> on 126.9 & 
> 281.45  and asked to do a fly by.  Soon, an E-4 did
> one pass before 
> departing.  Tail # 50125.
> Just before I left C-130 NAVY Whiskey Bravo 815
> arrived for a full 
> stop. Tail sports a vertical sword through a banner.
> 
> The Buckeye MOA was very active with F-16's from
> both Springfield and Toledo.
> BLADE 51 - SCOFF 11 - STING 51 - STING 41 - ATOMIC
> calls all heard.
> 
> Caught PACKER 1 with INDY Center on 360.775 & 317.8
> 
>
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