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Hawkeye at Lakehurst several years ago ...

St. Louis used to have an National Guard Base out here, and Scott Air Force Base is also relatively close.
We also have McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing. I think they have had a couple of airshows so I have seen up close and personal a couple of other birds.

I have seen
- F-4e (Air National Guard)
- F-100 (Air National Guard)
- F-15 (Air National Guard)
- F-15 (Saudi Version)
- EF-18 (New construction?)
- F-18a
- F-18c
- E-3 (I am not sure why that was in St. Louis)
- B-1 (Air show, I am guessing)
- AV-8 Harrier
- C-5
- C-130
- B-52 (Air show, I am guessing)
- F-14 Tomcat... that was in between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas.
And the last one, you will not believe...
I saw a B-2 over in Illinois, and I cannot begin to imagine WHY it was there. It was actually circling something... and I do not think it was circling Scott Air Force Base.

I guess I have been a lucky man to have seen all of these.

ORIGINAL: tjhkkr

St. Louis used to have an National Guard Base out here, and Scott Air Force Base is also relatively close.
We also have McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing. I think they have had a couple of airshows so I have seen up close and personal a couple of other birds.

I have seen
- F-4e (Air National Guard)
- F-100 (Air National Guard)
- F-15 (Air National Guard)
- F-15 (Saudi Version)
- EF-18 (New construction?)
- F-18a
- F-18c
- E-3 (I am not sure why that was in St. Louis)
- B-1 (Air show, I am guessing)
- AV-8 Harrier
- C-5
- C-130
- B-52 (Air show, I am guessing)
- F-14 Tomcat... that was in between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas.
And the last one, you will not believe...
I saw a B-2 over in Illinois, and I cannot begin to imagine WHY it was there. It was actually circling something... and I do not think it was circling Scott Air Force Base.

I guess I have been a lucky man to have seen all of these.

If the EF-18 looks like a F/A-18A and not like an F/A-18F, it's the spanish version of the F/A-18A+ (F/A-18A with some equipment from C version and some spanish equipment 72 built between 1986-1990) sold by McDonnell as a winner of the FACA program. McDonnel called this version EF-18 (E means España, Spain in spanish).

Took a short vacation to Hawaii (specifically Oahu), and saw

-Many F-22s
-Many C-17s
-C-5
-KC-135
-EP-3
-2 AH-64s
-2 CH-47s
-UH-60
-HH-60

Got a lot of photos of both these aircraft and some ships in port, if anyone's interested. Unfortunately, I saw no submarines at Pearl, although I did see 2 LHAs and a bunch of Arleigh Burke DDGs.

Thanks for the report. We had local news yesterday.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/20 ... first.html

Lakehurst NJ is part of the Joint Base.

Kevin

One flew over the house this morning. I now recognize the engines vs any other aviation in the area. You can hear the thing coming at the low altitude they are training at. Always around the same time of day. Maybe an ATC thing with Newark, Kennedy and the others in the area.

Kevin

Live between Lubbock and Amarillo. Bell Helicopter has a facility in Amarillo and we see V-22 Osprey'$ come over town and transition, helicopter around town a bit, then transition back, and then fly back to Amarillo. Tankers, I forget the designation, out of Altus, come down to Lubbock and do a few touch and go's and head back. Used to work seed fields right next to Cannon AFB bombing range back when they were still basing F-111's there. Walking a field one day headed towards the range when one of those bastards came in behind me treetop height and hot. I didn't hear him until he was right over me. Scared the living crap out of me! Working g fields in the Texas Panhandle used to see the occasional B-52 and B-2 headed for their practice area down in Far West Texas. Finally worked seed fields in the San Joaquin Valley in 1988 and used to see the Navy guys from NAS Lenore flying around. Don't remember what they were flying, F-14's maybe.

I'm on the flight pattern for NAS Jacksonville so I get to see all kinds of cool stuff, but mainly P-8's and Seahawks.

ORIGINAL: highlandcharge

Hey I live in Derby UK, once when I was walking my dog I seen a Royal Airforce AWACS flying really low, is was a majestic sight, also there is a big wildlife park not far from where I live and I seen an Apache training using cover and such

I lived just on the southern edge of the Lakes District NP for a few years (on assignment from the US - loved living there). We'd be walking the dogs up on a moor and occasionally RAF jets would make 180s to return on a run north. Apparently they sometimes use the mountain of the Lakes District to practice low level flying. They were quite low - enough to wave to the pilots as they banked and sometimes get a wing wag in return.

I was doing a glider course a few years back at Sinsheim, while some big annual Luftwaffe maneuver (ELITE maybe? don't remember for sure) was being held. Saw about a dozen Tornadoes that day, plus some C-160s. All coming in very low, taking a look at the aircraft museum, and zooming off.

On holiday in France last week a E-2 flew over, I couldn't see the marking but would assume it was French? I was on the beach here:

https://goo.gl/maps/Wi2nif9CDLP2

it was pretty low.

We had a Gendarmerie helicopter flying around one afternoon and I remember now that I saw an Atlantique two years ago on the Gironde.

I have seen about ten more E-2s this summer. The tempo of activity seems to have increased this year for sure. They are training at Lakehurst NAS. That base has the new EMALS system installed for testing and pilot practice. I have not seen any jets however. Perhaps they are vectored out over the ocean for noise abatement. Below is a rather old link to the base itself.

http://www.navair.navy.mil/nawcad/lakeh ... gID2=About

I suspect that the E-2 I saw was probably a French one though as it was in France