Great bird sighting today!

gravy boat · 07-28-2006, 07:10 PM

I was fortunate enough to have today off and saw a pair of A-10s while floating on my floaty-toy. What a beautiful sight!! They were pretty low...about as low as the jets on approach to Laconia Airport. They seemed to buzz the shoreline of the Gilford/Alton town line. What beautiful birds!

Resident 2B · 07-29-2006, 08:32 PM

I saw them and they absolutely looked great.

A few decades back (gee, it used to be a few years back, time flies), I won a one-year tropical vacation in a US Government raffle. I got a fairly low draft number!!

I remember F4's flying support over us in Viet Nam and there was not a better sight in the world. We used to say: "Thank God they are ours."

I had a place a few years back in Lincoln and the A10's were very frequent visitors to the Loon Mtn. ski area. It seemed you could reach out and touch them at times when making runs down the hill. You would not hear them until they went past you, often scaring the heck out of those new the the Loon area. That was another great sight, with sound!

R2B

kjbathe · 07-30-2006, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Resident 2B

I remember F4's flying support over us in Veit Nam and there was not a better sight in the world. We used to say: "Thank God they are ours."
R2B

And Thank God you are ours -- Thanks for your service in Vietnam.

Pepper · 07-30-2006, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by kjbathe

And Thank God you are ours -- Thanks for your service in Vietnam.

Amen! I second that.

rrr · 07-31-2006, 08:57 AM

and I'll third it! thank you

and thank God you returned from that tropical vacation - hopefully safe and sound

Weirs guy · 07-31-2006, 11:26 AM

let me 4th my thanks to you Resident 2B.

I saw one of these wonderful creatures last week at work in Franklin, any idea where they are coming from? I thought when Pease closed that was it?

Resident 2B · 07-31-2006, 02:43 PM

I believe they are from Vermont, at least that was the thinking around them when the A10's were up in the Loon area.

Thanks for the thanks, but that was so long ago I even forget some of it. It is the young men and women that are in harms way now in the middle east that we shound be thanking every day.

R2B

07-28-2006, 07:10 PM	#1
gravy boat Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Gilford year round, West Alton summers Posts: 596 Thanks: 601 Thanked 203 Times in 102 Posts	Great bird sighting today! I was fortunate enough to have today off and saw a pair of A-10s while floating on my floaty-toy. What a beautiful sight!! They were pretty low...about as low as the jets on approach to Laconia Airport. They seemed to buzz the shoreline of the Gilford/Alton town line. What beautiful birds!

07-29-2006, 08:32 PM	#2
Resident 2B Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: North Shore, MA Posts: 1,358 Thanks: 996 Thanked 314 Times in 164 Posts	Great Sight! I saw them and they absolutely looked great. A few decades back (gee, it used to be a few years back, time flies), I won a one-year tropical vacation in a US Government raffle. I got a fairly low draft number!! I remember F4's flying support over us in Viet Nam and there was not a better sight in the world. We used to say: "Thank God they are ours." I had a place a few years back in Lincoln and the A10's were very frequent visitors to the Loon Mtn. ski area. It seemed you could reach out and touch them at times when making runs down the hill. You would not hear them until they went past you, often scaring the heck out of those new the the Loon area. That was another great sight, with sound! R2B Last edited by Resident 2B; 03-05-2008 at 12:34 AM.

07-31-2006, 11:26 AM	#6
Weirs guy Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Weirs Beach, NH Posts: 1,067 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	let me 4th my thanks to you Resident 2B. I saw one of these wonderful creatures last week at work in Franklin, any idea where they are coming from? I thought when Pease closed that was it? __________________ Is it bikeweek yet? Now?

07-31-2006, 02:43 PM	#7
Resident 2B Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: North Shore, MA Posts: 1,358 Thanks: 996 Thanked 314 Times in 164 Posts	A10's I believe they are from Vermont, at least that was the thinking around them when the A10's were up in the Loon area. Thanks for the thanks, but that was so long ago I even forget some of it. It is the young men and women that are in harms way now in the middle east that we shound be thanking every day. R2B

07-31-2006, 08:57 AM	#5
rrr Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Winter Harbor Posts: 214 Thanks: 75 Thanked 37 Times in 14 Posts	and I'll third it! thank you and thank God you returned from that tropical vacation - hopefully safe and sound