Fighter Jets!!

[ttocs]

when/where is the airshow at?

[HIKER]

Cross country flights.. They've been doing those for years. They come in from the west, over north Gilbert, swing north over Mesa and land at SH. It's usually 3-4 birds every other weekend. I've seen them fly over my house now for years. For a while they would fly by between noon and 2pm on Sat or Sun. Their sound is very distinctive over commercial jets and the first thing I do is run outside and see what they are. Most of the time they are F18's.

I also seem to be in the flight path for Gateway. Military birds will fly low over my house on a sw to ne pattern and then swing a hard right to land at GW. I've seen some pretty cool aircraft fly. There's one plane that flys over every Sun night about 11:30pm extremely low and has some unique formation lights, and it also lands at GW...

[Stangme]

Not sure what was flying in our night skies if not Luke doing some night missions or returning from some Fly Overs. Will see what I can find out.

Luke AFB Air Show info for 2009

Thunder in the Desert 2009
March 21 and 22

Luke's "Thunder in the Desert" 2009 Open House is a two-day event at Luke Air Force Base and one of the most diverse air shows in America. The U.S. Air Force's Aerial Demonstration Team, the Thunderbirds, will bring their special brand of high-flying excitement to this year's show as well as numerous other aircraft and ground displays, exhibits, and attractions.

General admission to "Thunder in the Desert" is free. No tickets are available for purchase or required for general entry. Off-base parking will be available for a small fee.

Headlining Luke's "Thunder in the Desert" are the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds who perform precision aerial maneuvers demonstrating the capabilities of Air Force high performance aircraft to people throughout the world.
http://thunderbirds.airforce.com/home.html

[HIKER]

Four more Hornets landed at GW yesterday around 4pm. They flew right over Superstitions Springs Mall while I was out there..

[1966PonyGirl]

saw two helicopters here at work land at DV air port!!!! (sorry! all i can tell you is they were kinda loud and kinda big and really cool!)

[ttocs]

I saw a cessna fly over today. It was heading north around 9am.

[Blackmagic1]

I saw a cessna fly over today. It was heading north around 9am.

Must have been "5 O'Clock Charlies" cousin...

[Stangme]

Saw 20-30 small birds fly over Surprise today. Could'nt tell you what kind as they were so far away, can only say they were the kind that have feathers lol

[1966PonyGirl]

they are the pooping kind!

[El Jefe]

Wonder if DM is having an airshow...