Really quiet here, no flying aircraft although there were some ground movements.
When I arrived Be200 ODIN 40319 was making some turns at the holding of rwy 35.
Thereafter KC130 164999 taxied out to the hold to taxi back to its spot.
Ranger04 KC130 1632022 was taxiing out for its destination Ft Campbell but again taxied back
I then moved to the front porch of LMTAS to see F35B VM-04 being pulled, while in the first hangar a RAF F35B could be seen next to another JSF.
While spotting from Walgreen I noted VM-09 between some hangars but VM-06 was pulled from one hangar into another one.
Glad you made it. Crappy weather however. For tomorrow even worse.
The RAF B should be ZM135. I saw it last Wednesday being tucked into the same hangar. And in case you wonder the other B models have not left the final assembly line as far as I know so ZM135 is the only option.
If the weather would've been better I would've swung by tomorrow. No such luck. Hopefully you'll see something else come out and play.
Piet Luijken wrote:Tx mate. We will see. Apparantly yanks do not like clouds and rain.
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There are no yanks in the south!!! Only and happy southerners. LOL.
Jep, especially with new hardware. Do not expect them to fly. Perhaps some Spads but they just had their drill weekend so might be rather slow as well.
Again a very cloudy day in Texas. Just a good thing I had nothing special planned just a day at the fence of Navy. Flying was oke but the pictures were horrible as at some stages there was no light a all. First, at 0900lt, I made a tour along the eastern vista points at Maria Samson Pak to read off the F-16s, C-130Hs and a C-40. A C-9 was ready for taxi and departed slightly later unnoted. Mornings were spend at Walmart and afternoons along Lockheed drive on spot 1. At mid day, the runway closed for two hours so I even could do a proper hamburger meal and some shopping for the missus. BTW the ATIS freq has been changed to 351.675. HAs anybody some info on the LMTAS F-16? It was flying with no markings in standard USAF grey scheme.
94-00315 C-12R+ nb arrived as ARMY40315
94-00319 C-12R+ 339th MIC dep/arr as ARMY40319 to Corpus Christi
85-1361 C-130H 181st AS 136th AW on apron
85-1362 C-130H 181st AS 136th AW on apron
85-1367 C-130H 181st AS 136th AW dep as ROVER53
165830/5830 C-40A VR-59 on apron
161529 C-9 VR-46 departed at 0900lt
162428/MA-02 F/A-18A+ VMFA-112 did a couple of PAR approaches as COWBOY21
85-1449/TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW BEAST23
85-1468/TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW BEAST22
85-1475/TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW BEAST24
85-1479/TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW on apron
85-1549/TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW MUSTANG21
85-1554/TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW MUSTANG22
85-1556/TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW BEAST21
86-0222/TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW SPAD21
86-0242/TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW SPAD22
86-0246/TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW on apron
162231/QH-2311 KC-130T VMGR-234 on apron
162786/QH-786 KC-130T VMGR-234 did a engine run up at runway hold D
165163/QH-163 KC-130T VMGR-234 dep as RANGER04
62-3534 KC-135R 22nd ARW arrived as GAZZER991
83-1137 F-16C LMTAS did some local work and PAR approaches as VIPER21
Last edited by Piet Luijken on 21 May 2012, 22:51, edited 2 times in total.
LOG 9 May 2012: 0900-1300LT:
Finally a very sunny bright day. I arrived at the Walmart spot 3 to see a lot of action this day. First two Hornets departed with the MA-06 being one of the first refurbished F/A-18A++ models. I could not read the serial block however and the pilot was not wearing the newest helmet so I could not conform it. But during my last visit the unit gave me this information. Thereafter a lot of local Vipers took off. I moved to the Taco Bell spot 2 to picture the aircraft in the landing. At that stage I heard callsign STRIKE01. Not knowing what to expect, I returned to the Walmart only to see a F-35B taxiing out at the taxi track along the Walmart. Excellent! When I returned to spot 2 again for the arrival of the F-35, even two Homestead Vipers made their lunch stop here. The Talons were on their way to Alliance mostly for their lunch stop and made some touch and goes, callsigns heard were CHALK35 and ENJET30. At 1300lt I packed my stuff and departed to DFW for my flight home.
LOCALS:
94-00319 C-12R+ 339th MIC dep as ARMY40319
nn C-12R+ 339th MIC departed as ARMY50089
85-1361 C-130H 181st AS 136th AW arrived as ROVER94
85-1365 C-130H 181st AS 136th AW did some T&Gs as ROVER65
162430 MA-03 F/A-18A+ VMFA-112 COWBOY12
162469 MA-06 F/A-18A++ VMFA-112 COWBOY11
85-1449 TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW BEAST02
85-1458 TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW MUSTANG24
85-1459 TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW MUSTANG22
85-1468 TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW BEAST03
85-1554 TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW MUSTANG23
85-1556 TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW BEAST04
86-0216 TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW MUSTANG21
86-0219 TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW SPAD01
86-0222 TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW SPAD02
86-0244 TX F-16C 457th FS 301st FW BEAST01
162786 QH-786 KC-130T VMGR-234 did run-up at holding point D in front of Walmart
90-0848 F-16DJ LMTAS local mission of 1.5 hrs as STRIKE02
168310 VM-09 F-35B VMFAT-501 local mission of 1.5 hrs as STRIKE01
66-4374 EN T-38C 469th FTS 80th FTW
68-8129 EN T-38C 469th FTS 80th FTW
70-1570 EN T-38C 469th FTS 80th FTW
87-0281 FM F-16C 93rd FS 482nd FW arrived as REEF01
86-0267 FM F-16C 93rd FS 482nd FW arrived as REEF02
83-1137 F-16C LMTAS did some local work and PAR approaches as VIPER21
Nice log Piet. Too bad the weather was not great. But heck, we need the rain over here. The next four months is nothing more then blue skys with 40 C weather.
In regards to your 83-1137 sighting that is the LMTAS chase from Marietta previously used for the F-22 program. I found out all three Vipers from Marietta were at Navy not too long ago. The others actually still wore the "EF" tailcode from their previous squad. However they have departed to a unknown destination.
Will put up my log from yesterday if I can find some time.
and 
happy southerners. LOL.
