[Scan-DC] Fighters in Formation

[b_thom at juno.com]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:44:54 -0700 (PDT) Iain McFadyen
<mcfadyenusa at yahoo.com> writes:
> Yup. I caught them. Was in line to get a seat at my favorite 
> Vietnamese Soup
> restaurant, close to Fire Station 418, or Rt 50 at Graham Road, 
> Falls Church.

Really. They got that far out of DC? I was a few blocks from T. C.
Williams HS, and they were just about directly over that. They were
turning clockwise - to starboard, if you insist - and it looked to me as
if they would pass over Washington-Lee HS, Ballston, Cherrydale, etc. So
low too. Over and over. 

The parade of aircraft tomorrow a.m. sounds intriguing. I wonder if
they'll bring back a B2 Stealth bomber. There was a flyover by one about
four years ago. That also caught me surprise. Also, the B-17 nd B-24 will
be in Gaithersburg. Expect a flyover from them as well. Imagine the sound
the B-17 will make. 

You know what I'd like to see? One of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-141

I miss the utterly distinctive sound they made passing directly overhead.