07-20-2006, 04:44 PM
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I want to be a fighter pilot
I guess for the start of the greatest show on Earth, "THE CAPITAL EX", a CF-18 flew over the city today. Wow, that had to have been one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. I was like a little kid when that thing flew over. The snowbirds have nothing on these things.
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07-20-2006, 04:52 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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They'll probably have it on display near the midway. They had one at the Stampede, near the tanks. You could climb up a ladder to look inside, and they also showed off a 20mm Vulcan cannon. 
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07-20-2006, 04:53 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
I guess for the start of the greatest show on Earth...
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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.
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07-20-2006, 04:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Niceland
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Greatest show on earth? Here we go again...
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07-20-2006, 04:55 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary, AB
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One of the coolest things I've ever seen was driving in northern AZ seeing two fighter pilots mock dogfighting about 100 feet from the ground, then zooming up to damn near the moon within seconds.
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07-20-2006, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by jonesy
Greatest show on earth? Here we go again...
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It was clearly sarcasm.
Edit- And it doesn't look like I can be a pilot anymore...I'm not exactly proficient in mathematics and physics as their website states is a must.
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But living an honest life - for that you need the truth. That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, leads to liberation and dignity. -Ricky Gervais
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07-20-2006, 05:05 PM
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Norm!
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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.
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07-20-2006, 05:46 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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What ever happened to Klondike Days? They still have the Chucks don't they or is it just the fair?
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07-20-2006, 06:03 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Yeah I used to live near an air weapons range and it was always fun watching them do mock dog fights and stuff.
Once I got to go into the room they used to debrief pilots after exercises in Cold Lake. They had these huge screens with 3D drawings of the data collected, pretty cool stuff.
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07-20-2006, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by greerb
What ever happened to Klondike Days? They still have the Chucks don't they or is it just the fair?
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They changed the name this year.
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But living an honest life - for that you need the truth. That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, leads to liberation and dignity. -Ricky Gervais
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07-20-2006, 06:21 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
They changed the name this year.
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I guess they wanted to be more like Winnipeg.
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07-20-2006, 06:38 PM
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I was with the Air Cadets a while back and got to go up to Cold Lake once... we say the weather station, radar room and even the control tower... we saw a couple F-18s taking off... pretty awesome... lived in the Barracks... which was bad... wasn't too fond of it... but pretty awesome none the less.
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07-20-2006, 06:50 PM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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oilers_fan, me thinks you would like air shows.
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07-20-2006, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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I'm envious as hell! Man, I'd love to see some of that stuff that close. 
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07-20-2006, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
They changed the name this year.
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Shouldn't they have changed to something along the lines of the E-Town-Ex, or just the ETX for short?
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07-20-2006, 07:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Clinching Party
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I was downtown near Stampede station when the Snowbirds did all those whirlygigs over the city to start the parade a couple weeks back. I had no idea they were going to be there until I heard the noise so I turned around and they roared right over my head and I said "wowie" out loud. The strangest thing though is that there were these two fellas that didn't even look. They were walking behind me and when I turned around to see the planes these guys just kept on walking towards me and they didn't look up. They just kept going like it's every day that 9 planes fly over their heads at 600 feet.
I stopped and stared every time they went by and when they were finished I must admit that I thought of SideShow Bob.
"Airshow?" Sideshow Bob says incredulously, "Buzz-cut Alabamians spewing coloured smoke in their whiz-jets to the strains of "Rock you like a hurricane? What kind of country-fried rube is still impressed by that?"
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07-20-2006, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
oilers_fan, me thinks you would like air shows.
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Yeah, I am sure I would. I have probably seen one or two before, but I don't remember anything. I should take a trip to Cold Lake this summer. They will probably even have a recruiting booth set up, LOL.
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But living an honest life - for that you need the truth. That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, leads to liberation and dignity. -Ricky Gervais
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07-20-2006, 07:39 PM
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
Yeah, I am sure I would. I have probably seen one or two before, but I don't remember anything. I should take a trip to Cold Lake this summer. They will probably even have a recruiting booth set up, LOL.
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I still remember the Lethbridge Air Show.
CF-18 doing a full half-hour show, an appearance by numerous US planes, plus an example of Fighter Jets destroying ground targets.
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07-20-2006, 07:42 PM
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
I'm envious as hell! Man, I'd love to see some of that stuff that close. |
If your close to Luke airforce base you've probably seen a few of these too, they look like cargo planes, but they're probably the deadliest plane out there today.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ac-130.htm
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07-20-2006, 09:33 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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My roommate from universtiy flies F-18s in the Canadian airforce, and did a 2yr stint with the Snowbirds. I believe he is stationed in Bagottville right now, I haven't spoken with him since last year.
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