[Scan-DC] T-birds up in Wash, DC area

[jay dehm]

It was amazing.. I got a private show as they circled around back
towards Arlington. They flew in formation right over my head at low
alt. At the end when they left towards the NE, two chase planes (if
you could call them that) boomed over my head and I looked up and they
were already passed me. What fun

jay

On 10/14/06, b_thom at juno.com <b_thom at juno.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:50:58 -0400 "jay dehm" <dehmmy.qth at gmail.com>
> writes:
> > T-Birds A/A - 143.85 active.. practicing.. they just flew overhead
>
> The only scanner I took with me was a Bearcat SC180B, which does not have
> milair frequencies. I didn't have that one in the scanner. I can't
> remember if it's possible to program the scanner for that freq. It won't
> take me long to find out.
>
> I ended up at Utah Street Park, something like that, in Fairlington,
> overlooking the I-395 interchange with Quaker Lane at the Shirlington
> Shopping Center. There were about eight other people there, and you could
> see the top of the AF Memorial spires from that location. On the way over
> there, I saw, from afar, what looked like a biplane. I could easily be
> wrong on that. Before I got there, I got a glimpse of the B-2 in the
> distance, and what was probably a C-17. Then we waited. I guess I missed
> most of the flyover. About a half-hour later, the Thunderbirds showed up.
> They were nowhere near the route they flew on Thursday.