NORAD Flight Exercise Planned for Washington, D.C.

Department of Defense ^ | 13 May 09

[PurpleMan]

The North American Aerospace Defense Command and its geographical component, the Continental United States NORAD Region, will conduct exercise Falcon Virgo 09-07, on May 15 and 19 between midnight and 6:00 a.m. in the National Capital Region (NCR), Washington, D.C.

The exercise comprises a series of training flights held in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Capital Region Command Center, the Joint Air Defense Operations Center, the Continental U.S. NORAD Region (CONR), Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Coast Guard and CONR's Western Air Defense Sector.

[PurpleMan]

I guess after the NYC fiasco - including Gibbs' "remarks" and BHO's lack of apology - they're going to announce THIS one.

[Red_Devil 232]

Wonder if Bambi will be in town?

[shadeaud]

Nah, he and his crowd will be in Chi town.

[billorites]

When I was with CAP we used to do something similar to test the ADIZ off shore in the North Atlantic.

We'd fly around for a couple couple hours a hundred miles out in a Baron and the F-16's would come find us.

Funny thing is that we never saw them, but they had us in their sights.

The CAP didn't own any twin engine aircraft so we used member aircraft. As these were approved and budgeted Air Force training missions the owners would be reimbursed by the Air Force upon presentation of documentation and an invoice.

As it turns out, the Feds are a slow pay.

[Young Werther]

Back in the Cold War era SAC would conduct Snow Time exercises where SAC B-52s, B-57s, B-58s and KC-135 tanker aircraft would "sneak offshore" and then attack a particular NORAD air defense zone.

I flew on one such missions out of Minot. We departed and flew over Western Canada. We refueled over the Northwest territory and flew out over the Arctic Ocean. We remained outside the Radar coverage until all aircraft were assembled. we then turned south and attacked Alaska, the BMEWS site at Clear AFS and then Fairbanks.

After flying south and exiting Alaska territory we flew south and then attacked Seattle. There were over 120 aircraft involved and we were shot down twice! this was a 16 ass hour flight, (how you measured your endurance!)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[JZelle]

Is the WOPR still on line?