F-35s & F-15s TEARING THROUGH THE MACH LOOP - 4K

[turbinetree]

[Skittles]

1. I dated an F-15 pilot

years later when he flew for an airline, he said he was now a "glorified bus driver"

[NBachers]

2. It's s Fleet Week in San Francisco now. The Blue Angels have been strafing the city for a few days. You can catch them

at any spot downtown.

[Brother Buzz]

3. The Aquatic Park is the epicenter

Year ago, I was doing construction at Ghirardelli Square. At high noon on Thursday, I was up thirty feet on scaffolding inside a skylight, when, Bam, they strafed me. I was really rattled, but went outside to watch the rest of the practice.

[XanaDUer2]

4. Wow

[True Dough]

5. This is a bucket list item for me

Not to fly the jets, it's a bit late for that, but to make it to the Mach Loop.

My wife and I travelled to Death Valley several years ago and we weren't aware of fighters training there. A couple of Super Hornets came tearing through a canyon and it was absolutely thrilling! We stuck around for about 1/2 hour watching as they made more passes.

[turbinetree]

6. I have over 25 + years in aviation and grew up in the Air Force...............and absolutely love planes

I helped build all 100 B1B or the (Bone ) bombers out in California and and have worked on every commercial aircraft that has been flown by the airlines on the main line side that were built since 1965 to 2008.
To give you a simple example of the B1B (Bone) that aircraft was designed to fly at Mach 1.25 or around 900 miles per hour at flight level in the desert at approximately 200 / 300 feet off the ground to penetrate and use it stealth capabilities to combat radar.
I see from your post you mention Death Valley it has numerous other names such as Jedi Canyon, Star Wars Canyon of Rainbow Canyon.............here is very short video of the bomber with its wings in the delta configuration..........flying at Mach 1.25...........