pilot602
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Just friggin\' cool
On my way to work this morning (I have about a 1-hr commute) I was driving past FFZ and saw an AH-64 landing at the Boeing plant. I see them occasionaly in the moring doing shakedown flights over the indian reserve on the north side of the 202. Usually they takeoff, head North, cross the 202 and make one, big sweeping turn back south to return to the plant. Usually they'll have a White w/red and orange Huey following them as either a spotter or safety-type deal. Cool.
As I'm driving up Higley (the N-S road that runs along the East border of FFZ and the plant) I hear this hum. I look up and about 100ft AGL I see an Apache (AH-64) fly over head from behind me, following the road north bound, then a few seconds later another one behind him, and a few second later yet another one behind the second. This trend continues until five Apaches cross overhead my car - all at about 100-200ft AGL) and eventually they cross the 202 and make a sweeping right hand turn out over Salt River (South-Southwest of Red Mountain). The sun was just coming up. I had my camera but traffic wouldn't allow me to snap a picture.
It was jsut friggin' cool
And one more piece of my argument that FFZ is one of the cooler airports to fly out of.
On my way to work this morning (I have about a 1-hr commute) I was driving past FFZ and saw an AH-64 landing at the Boeing plant. I see them occasionaly in the moring doing shakedown flights over the indian reserve on the north side of the 202. Usually they takeoff, head North, cross the 202 and make one, big sweeping turn back south to return to the plant. Usually they'll have a White w/red and orange Huey following them as either a spotter or safety-type deal. Cool.
As I'm driving up Higley (the N-S road that runs along the East border of FFZ and the plant) I hear this hum. I look up and about 100ft AGL I see an Apache (AH-64) fly over head from behind me, following the road north bound, then a few seconds later another one behind him, and a few second later yet another one behind the second. This trend continues until five Apaches cross overhead my car - all at about 100-200ft AGL) and eventually they cross the 202 and make a sweeping right hand turn out over Salt River (South-Southwest of Red Mountain). The sun was just coming up. I had my camera but traffic wouldn't allow me to snap a picture.
It was jsut friggin' cool
And one more piece of my argument that FFZ is one of the cooler airports to fly out of.