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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
Barnum and Bailey is in Edmonton? And here I thought the only circus in Edmonton was the operation of the Oilers hockey club! 
I know what you mean about fighter jets. Even though we have a ton of traffic in the Phoenix area because of Luke AFB and Williams Gateway, I still stop what I am doing to watch them fly over. We get F15, F16, F18, tankers, transports, and older trainers (F4 and such) flying through the area all the time. The Apache is also manufactured in the area and does test flights in the neighborhood. Pretty cool stuff. It appears to be old hat to Americans, but to use Canucks, its like seeing your forst exotic sports care over and over again. |
There's nothing like seeing 10 B52 rumbling over at low altitude or seeing a Mig 29 doing a Cobra Stall. The coolest plane I've ever seen was still the F14 Tomcat going on full burner though.
I went to an airshow in Dallas when I lived there and wrangled a ride in the gunners seat of an Apache gunship.
The coolest thing ever though is standing on the deck of a carrier during flight ops.