Honoring health care worker flyovers.
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I don't recall the announcements saying they were going to fly a missing man formation. If it is I suppose it's to honor those who have been claimed by covid. It might also be the angle I took the photo from but it didn't look like one as I was observing the flyover.
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Looks like it could be missing man formation. Not unusual with four planes and the right side longer than the left (seen from pilot's L/R) .
Snowbirds, Blue Angels, Thunderbirds. Don't think I've ever heard of all three together.
nice one here for captain tom's 100th birthday he walked round his garden for the NHS and made over £30 million pound for them
spitfire and hurricane
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spitfire and hurricane
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Idaho gets a flyover on Friday. Boise to Idaho Falls area.
www.eastidahonews.com
Flyover Friday: Fighter jets to fly over 11 Idaho cities to honor essential workers - East Idaho News
IDAHO FALLS — Don’t be alarmed when you see fighter jets in the sky Friday – they’re paying tribute to those working on the front line in the battle against COVID-19. The Idaho National Guard is teaming up with the Mountain Home Air Force Base Gunfighters to perform a flyover over 11 Idaho...
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I took this photo. Blue Angels, 06 May 2020, over McKinney, Texas, headed south. They will make a west bound turn over to Frisco, TX, then south and circle Dallas, then circle Fort Worth, then land at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, TX.
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Probably just to make a proper approach, i.e., avoid commercial traffic, wind direction, etc.
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I'm not greedy, I'll just take 1% of the cost of one of those fly overs.
I don't know how much fuel the fighters hold, but the air refuelers I worked on hold 30,000 gallons of jp8. I have no idea what a gallon of jp8 costs, but standing under the wing while filling the tanks with 200,000 pounds of fuel would make the plane would slowly settle down changing one's headroom significantly.
All military troops have certain training requirements they have to remain current on in order to stay in their job classification. When you see a flyover the pilots, among others are using that activity to keep current on those requirements.
Today about 77¢ a gallon.
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...Yay... with the addition of corrosion inhibitor and anti-icing additives.
JP-8 is the military grade of commercial airline Jet A1, with the additives Paletes3 mentioned. Those two, kerosene, and diesel are very close.
Some places run de-tanked jet fuel in diesel ground equipment and I've known a few airport people to steal it for their diesel trucks. It runs OK in the older ground support equipment, but is "dirtier" and doesn't have the lubricity or some other properties so is bad for modern diesel engines.
As for proficiency, the demo pilots sure don't need it but with all the airshows shut down, they had the availability.
Some places run de-tanked jet fuel in diesel ground equipment and I've known a few airport people to steal it for their diesel trucks. It runs OK in the older ground support equipment, but is "dirtier" and doesn't have the lubricity or some other properties so is bad for modern diesel engines.
As for proficiency, the demo pilots sure don't need it but with all the airshows shut down, they had the availability.
Many of the flyovers, including the one over my house, were not by demo pilots. The one in Idaho had a mix of guard and active duty pilots. A-10s and if I remember right F-15s They likely included an in air re-fueling helping to keep both the tanker and the fighter pilots current.
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I'd love to see/hear a flight of A-10s.