Posted on 05/13/2009 9:36:28 AM PDT by 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.
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Wonder if Bambi will be in town?
Nah, he and his crowd will be in Chi town.
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.
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!)
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Is the WOPR still on line?
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