Might have been trainers (with red trim). You never could trust those Navy
pilots ;-) I had some good times at Miramar with the RAG aircrew (replacement
air group, or conversion unit where they learned to fly and fight the F-14
Tomcat).
The best times were when we (in brand new little F-16Cs) waxed the a**** of the
tyro F-14 pilots. But San Diego was a smashing place (until someone stole my
OM2SP from a locked parked car on Mission Beach (?).
Chris
~~ ><>
Chris Barker
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>From: "Peter A. Klein" <pklein@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [OM] Reveries over Yorkshire
>Date: 11 Nov 1999 10:07
>
> Gary Edwards <edwardsg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I have often been thankful that I took up photography, even when I didn't
> have a camera along. Photography has certainly taught me to SEE and enjoy
[...]
>
> A couple of weeks ago, we had some nice, dry weather in Seattle, and I
> headed up into the mountains with my OM-2 and various lenses 28-100mm. I
> found a nice little lake in the Snoqualmie Pass area. I walked around it,
> taking photographs of the fall colors. Fall colors here are nothing like
> the New England of my childhood. But it was still quite nice, especially
> with the surrounding Cascade peaks in view. A bit of vine maple here and
> there contributed a few red accents to the general green and yellow.
>
> All of a sudden, my reverie was shattered by two fighter jets who came
> screaming into the lake basin at a very low altitude, arced around the far
> shore of the lake and zoomed out of view through a cleft between two peaks.
> Startled the bejeebers out of me and totally freaked out the ducks on the
> lake. A while later the jets returned, and I caught one on film, albeit
> out of focus. I had much better luck with the ducks. After they
> recovered, they swam in formation across the lake, and I got several nice
> shots of their wakes on the absolutely calm lake, with a reflection of the
> surrounding mountains in the water.
>
> (Sorry, can't post any of the pictures--no scanner. Maybe some day.)
>
> I don't know military aircraft, but I suspect the planes were Navy jets
> from the nearby Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, defending Snoqualmie Pass
> against foreign aggression. The planes were white (or silver and white)
> with red trim. Hard to tell exactly--they were *fast*. And LOUD.
>
> Peter "Top Gun my A**!" Klein
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