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These are all military or official government flights. Aside from the normal clusters of training flights you usually see in OK and AL/FL, there’s just a lot of activity. Even the Buffs from Barksdale are up today.
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Edit: Ooh, and a couple of F-35s over England.
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Prep for fly overs on Saturday?
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Russians put bounties on our servicemen...
China’s cracking down on free speech in
HK...
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No idea.
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Chinese and Indian troops massing at their Himalayan border
As for HK, we don’t care about political freedoms any more. There was a time when we supported that sort of thing.
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That was a crazy story - hand-to-hand combat with rocks and sticks!
It’s no coincidence that they’re
using this time (global
pandemic, racial unrest) under this president to make these moves.
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Looks like one big boy possibly
dropping bombs over dugway
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1st of the month, everybody’s budget reset.
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There are some who argue that the Chinese created this pandemic specifically to destabilize the world.
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Some people also wear tinfoil hats.
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Could just be coincidence ? Lots of scheduled things falling on the same day?
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I like Skyfire77's explanation that it’s the first of the month so everybody has new budget money to go flying with.
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Odd; the new DoD fiscal year doesn’t start until Oct. 1. Is there another reason why they would star using jet fuel today?
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Purposeful malicious action: nah
Some dumb grad student accidentally broke containment in a virology lab: maybe
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It’s the first of the month, and first day in the 3rd quarter. Everybody’s monthly and quarterly budgets reset and they have the ability to spend $$$ on fuel and whatnot now.
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Interesting. I saw an F35 fly over yesterday and said out loud: well there’s something you don’t see every day in the Bay Area.
Must be preparing to announce the war with the aliens in time for Independence Day :)
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FOX 2!
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Ha!
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I just googled it, and evidently, it costs $44,000 per hour to fly an F-35
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Ok, I just googled it and it costs $44,000 an hour to fly an F35......
So I guess you weren’t joking.
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pretty sure its a show of force move due to Canada Day
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How will you be paying for that? Cash or credit?
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Make sure Canada doesn’t get any ideas.
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This is pretty common on the 1st of the month, especially when the weather’s nice. That sounds facetious but it’s true.
ETA: I see Skyfire77 said the same thing and explained why. It’s also the start of the 3rd quarter, which is the
4th quarter of the government’s
fiscal year. July 1 and October 1 are the two best days of the year to burn a lot of expensive gas.
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This site only for military aircraft? I zoomed in and was getting single prop stuff.
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Welcome to Earf.
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June was the end of Q2 as well. New quarter money!
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Official flights getting government personnel to new locations.
( Personal flights getting officials to their vacation homes.)
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*looks out window*
Yep, there’s a KC-135
(There’s always at least one KC-135 flying around here)
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If you click the U button at the top, it will show only military/government flights. You will see a lot of USAF T-6 Texan II primary trainers, particularly in OK and FL.
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Oh, that’s right. The congressional recess starts today, doesn’t it? Good thing the pandemic is over.
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That’s not bad, in the grand scheme of things:
This is from 2016, so the amounts have changed slightly, though it gives a basic idea .
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“ As for HK, we don’t care about political freedoms any more. There was a time when we supported that sort of thing.”
Which time was that?
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This was in China, so it was probably a top level researcher that broke protocol.
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That’s a lot of money
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Debt, I imagine.
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Not sure why the Nightwatch are so expensive per hour, they’re basically 747s, at least the flying bits. Then again, they can carry up to 108 crew, soI’d assume there’s a lot of ancillary costs the other planes don’t face.
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But it wouldn't be such a bad thing if they burned down the white house again right about now!