This is the actual pilot transmission.
1 posted on
02/07/2023 10:22:06 AM PST by
gandalftb
To: gandalftb
The Balloon Fart heard around the world!
To: gandalftb
Tower, this is ghostrider requesting a flyby
3 posted on
02/07/2023 10:25:38 AM PST by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: gandalftb; SkyDancer; All
"Stolen" from Skydancer
4 posted on
02/07/2023 10:26:38 AM PST by
BenLurkin
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To: gandalftb
Thank you for the effort you put in. I saw this War Zone article late last night and didn't feel like all of that cut-and-paste work.
I would encourage everyone to also listen to the accompanying YouTube video which has a bit more dialog than Tyler excerpted for the print article.
You really get a sense of how pulverized the payload was after the Sidewinder went off in proximity to it.
6 posted on
02/07/2023 10:28:59 AM PST by
Yo-Yo
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[pic with Biden shooting an imaginary shotgun] CAPOW!
7 posted on
02/07/2023 10:29:01 AM PST by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: gandalftb
8 posted on
02/07/2023 10:29:05 AM PST by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: gandalftb
Enjoyed that tremendously. Thank you.
10 posted on
02/07/2023 10:33:13 AM PST by
mairdie
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To: gandalftb
“ 12:17: EAGLE01: EAGLE01 is tally one… There appears to be debris above. I do not see anything below the white parachute for now.”
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I think the “parachute” the pilots are mentioning is just the deflated balloon. The “payload” had been separated from the balloon and quickly fell MUCH faster than the streaming deflated balloon.
11 posted on
02/07/2023 10:34:05 AM PST by
House Atreides
(I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
To: gandalftb
Only reason I can figure that we sent a missle instead of using guns is that we knew that it had potential for chaff so we wanted to keep the plane clear of any possible fod - which seems to be the case based on the results and the comms.
12 posted on
02/07/2023 10:36:08 AM PST by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
To: gandalftb
It’s ridiculous and stupid
Shoot the stupid thing down before it enters our airspace
Done
So stupid ….
13 posted on
02/07/2023 10:38:51 AM PST by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it 🤪)
To: gandalftb
Call sign FRANK for the F22 pilot references Frank Luke, the
“Arizonia Balloon Buster” who destroyed 14 Germen observation
Balloon on the Western Front in 1918
17 posted on
02/07/2023 10:44:36 AM PST by
njslim
To: gandalftb
Just think. At the White House Command Center Commander in Chief Biden was running everything every step of the way. May as well have been in the cockpit himself as they fired.🤪
18 posted on
02/07/2023 10:47:08 AM PST by
frank ballenger
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To: gandalftb
I saw a different transcript:
POP!!!
To: gandalftb
To: gandalftb
To: gandalftb
Need a jet jockey to translate this. LoL
27 posted on
02/07/2023 11:13:41 AM PST by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
To: gandalftb
Chinese Spy: “We still cannot rocate this Rimbaugh person...”
34 posted on
02/07/2023 12:34:18 PM PST by
OrangeHoof
(No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
To: gandalftb
During an actual war, will our Air Force be this chatty?
35 posted on
02/07/2023 12:41:49 PM PST by
Chainmail
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