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Our house got buzzed today and I knew it wasn't a normal plane sound. Grabbed the dogs and went down to the airport.

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Looks like Laughlin and the Bullhead City airport... I get the B -17 over my house (Phoenix-Mesa Gateway airport) area frequently.
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Yep. I was in Havasu Thursday, turned a corner and saw a 4 engine plane coming toward me. We get Cs from Davis Monthan doing touch and goes all the time at IFP but I thought it might be this B17. I pulled over and got out in time to watch it fly by fairly close.
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Over here you would be arrested for taking these photos..... the joy of living in a free society [&:]
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Over here you would be arrested for taking these photos..... the joy of living in a free society [&:]


I beg to differ PR,i can go to RAF Marham any day and take photos,mind you its a waste of time as we got bugger all planes there,most are in a hot sandy place!Still within 5 years we wont have an RAF anymore.
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Really?? I here I thought the RCAF was on a lean diet...
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Four of the fighters have been flying around today. Our house sits on a ridge about 200 feet above the airport. The fighters made a low pass over the house but we couldn't get to the camera fast enough.
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The fighters made a low pass over the house but we couldn't get to the camera fast enough.
Leave it on a window sill and set it on movement detection.
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I live in Rural Scotland at the top of a hill and the RAF practice bombing our house on a daily basis[8D]

The neighbours hate it, my twin girls used to squeal and run into the house terrified when they were wee, but now we all go out and watch the show. [:D]

We get some great dogfights and a lot of what I assume are trainees ducking and diving dodging and weaving in smaller jets. Chinooks and other copters have been known to deposit troops in the field just outside my back garden but that's pretty rare these days.

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The fighters made a low pass over the house but we couldn't get to the camera fast enough.
Leave it on a window sill and set it on movement detection.

I tried that once and got a lovely close up of the cats bum as he jumped out the window [X(]

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Here's the local newspaper article from Sunday

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with a pic of fighters. The paper had a shot of the nose art on the B-17. Unless it has been redone, a friend of mind painted it years ago.

Someone must have paid the $425 because it flew this afternoon.
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A ride in a B-17 is worth $425 - not sure my wife would agree, though.
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Wednesday a C130 landed and the 1st Marines played capture the airport. World crisis training.

A few minutes ago, 3 of the large twin rotor Marine helicopters landed.

Monday the 747 from Las Vegas was parked here.
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Sounds like a training buildup.
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Sounds like weekend at the casinos.
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The US Marines' answer to trickle down economy. Or should it be "Save Las Vegas"?
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When I watched Sgt Bilko it was in black and white.
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My office looks out over the harbour - over the past couple of months we've had Blackhawks carrying out training exercises every couple of weeks - circle in through some buildings - hover then off over the harbour and back again - its a very impressive sight.
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