2 Fighter Jets circling my house (lusk)

Call Me Jimmy

Jesus when they hit the engines I nearly crapped my pants, pretty pre-ttaayy loud!

Didnt know we had any?

Doom

I didn't think we had, only prop types planes.... invasion hopefully :-)

Tenger

2 USAF F-16s doing a flyover of Croker for the US football game.


lucky you

Call Me Jimmy

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Jesus when they hit the engines I nearly crapped my pants, pretty pre-ttaayy loud!

Didnt know we had any?

We are being invaded by the Isle of Mann their cats want their tails back. For further info read the Croke park topic.

Call Me Jimmy

I swear if I hadn't seen them circling before I would have thought I was about to get obliterated!

Call Me Jimmy

I was unaware of any festivities in croke park

kingtiger

Ah I just saw them as well, ready with the camera if they come back, they really are lovely things to see

BonkeyDonker

Did you pay your water charges? :eek:

Shimmy Jimmy CocoPop

kingtiger wrote: »

Ah I just saw them as well, ready with the camera if they come back, they really are lovely things to see

Just flew really low and loud over my house in south Dublin, was wondering what it was!

zom

Saw them flying over my garden minutes ago. Any more info about the?

kiffer

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

I swear if I hadn't seen them circling before I would have thought I was about to get obliterated!

They just went over my flat a few minutes ago.
no idea what was happening, came here to find out what was happening.

Psychobabble

I'm next to Croke Park and thought a plane was about to crash into the house!

Tenger

zom wrote: »

Saw them flying over my garden minutes ago. Any more info about the?

Single fly over of Croke Park for the opening of the American football game taking place there

nc19

Tenger wrote: »

2 USAF F-16s doing a flyover of Croker for the US football game.


lucky you

lucky me arse!!


nearly shat myself.....

thought it was a fecking bomb dropping right on top of me. never heard anything like it

Psychobabble

It's set off all the house and car alarms in the area; I've never heard anything like it!

zom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kBwEFz_WIdQ#t=19

RogerWilco1982

They just flew over my house in Beaumont, heading south, I heard them and ran to my window, couldn't believe my eyes when I saw them, and thought they were R.A.F. from the glimpse I caught.

Call Me Jimmy

I was enjoying lookin at them circling then they went out view, their was almost no sound off them so I thought maybe they have nice quiet engines for... stealth purposes. then BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

I feel quite small and humble now.

kitchenkid

I thought a plane was crashing into the house - crouched down on the floor in fright - absolutely terrifying sound!

Tenger

nc19 wrote: »

l....thought it was a fecking bomb dropping right on top of me. never heard anything like it

kitchenkid wrote: »

....- absolutely terrifying sound!

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

...I feel quite small and humble now.

Psychobabble wrote: »

It's set off all the house and car alarms in the area; I've never heard anything like it!

And that wasn't even as loud as they can be.

The noise and vibrations are part of the attraction they hold for some of us.

Ive been 10 miles from a Space Shuttle takeoff and the ground shook beneath me.
Last year I was 200 metres from a Harrier hovering.....my legs were vibrating like jelly in a bowl.
I've been #1 for takeoff after Concorde in Heathrow....our whole A321 shook with the power of those engines.

kona

Tenger wrote: »

And that wasn't even as loud as they can be.

The noise and vibrations are part of the attraction they hold for some of us.

Ive been 10 miles from a Space Shuttle takeoff and the ground shook beneath me.
Last year I was 200 metres from a Harrier hovering.....my legs were vibrating like jelly in a bowl

Proper order too.

shedweller

Tenger wrote: »

And that wasn't even as loud as they can be.

The noise and vibrations are part of the attraction they hold for some of us.

Ive been 10 miles from a Space Shuttle takeoff and the ground shook beneath me.
Last year I was 200 metres from a Harrier hovering.....my legs were vibrating like jelly in a bowl

Ah yeah. I was BESIDE the Vulcan when it took off at Farnborough a few weeks ago and that was even louder!!

(I actually was but i'm only having the craic here!)

SpaceTime

That's what happens when you illegally use US Netflix.

chinwag

Yes it was a bit frightening for a few moments when you didn't know what it was. Imagine what the 'real thing' must be like in real war zones.

Preset No.3

Ok, could everyone whos not a flying nerd exit left and leave the rest of use to our chuckles about the roar of an F-16!!!!! :O

Wetbench4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnK6x0jI8Ow

Not my video, i found it over here --> http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057280271&page=2

Thought you might like it.

Tenger

Another pic:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/corkspotter/14895973359/in/photostream/
Does it look as if the jet in front has a missile under its right wing? Square-ish fins on it

shedweller

Tenger wrote: »

Another pic:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/corkspotter/14895973359/in/photostream/
Does it look as if the jet in front has a missile under its right wing? Square-ish fins on it

They look like sparrows on the wingtips and sidewinders on the pylon beside the fuel tanks.
Or they could be dummies??

shedweller

shedweller wrote: »

They look like sparrows on the wingtips and sidewinders on the pylon beside the fuel tanks.
Or they could be dummies??

They're dummies.

darklighter

zom wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kBwEFz_WIdQ#t=19

Some amount of underwear binned after that

K.Flyer

I was working just down from Croker and they flew straight over us at full throttle...
I swear, the noise was earth shattering, unbelievable sight and sound.

Captain Chaos

Tenger wrote: »

Another pic:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/corkspotter/14895973359/in/photostream/
Does it look as if the jet in front has a missile under its right wing? Square-ish fins on it

They usually fly with dummy AMRAAM missiles on the wingtips at all times as it improves drag and wing flutter despite carrying some extra weight.

elfy4eva

Croke park residents will now be petitioning for no more than 3 F-16 fly-bys per calendar year

Jokes aside that was f*ckin class. I can see why our 'murican neighbors are so gung ho!

Peregrine

elfy4eva wrote: »

Croke park residents will now be petitioning for no more than 3 F-16 fly-bys per calendar year

We should start another petition for at least 3 F-16 fly-bys per calendar year

Strong Life in Dublin

chinwag wrote: »

Yes it was a bit frightening for a few moments when you didn't know what it was. Imagine what the 'real thing' must be like in real war zones.

You would not even hear or see them in a war scenario. They would be flying at a high altitude

uchgdave

Typical , the greatest aviation event in the country in over a year , and the Dubs get it for free and dont even tell the rest of us about it .

I would have gotten the train from Galway had I been informed .

At least when we had the Salthill Airshow it was well advertised , bet our fighter jets were louder than yours .

Rhys Essien

Strong Life in Dublin wrote: »

You would not even hear or see them in a war scenario. They would be flying at a high altitude

There was plenty of low flying F-16's over Gaza the last few weeks according to people's reports on Twitter anyway.

wiseoldelf34

hopefully it's isis coming to decapitate all of us capitalist pig-dogs

Ghost Train

a few twitter photos
https://twitter.com/search?q=dublin%20fighter&src=typd&mode=photos

Aard

After watching that youtube video in Lusk - I had no idea how to visualise just how fast those planes were! The suburban semi-d's really puts it in perspective.

tricky D

Strong Life in Dublin wrote: »

You would not even hear or see them in a war scenario. They would be flying at a high altitude

They attack at various altitudes including low level strafing runs with plenty of noise. It's often too late when they are heard. Video from the other thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iSVPgfmRqk

Also various attack exercises:
http://www.funker530.com/f-16-gun-runs-and-bombing-runs/

More if you Google 'f16 bombing run' for videos.

JamieIsGod

freyners

Used to work in a tiwn near perpignagn in france and regularly had fighters fly past. The noise was insane but always welcomed the sight. Incredible things to see

cml387

uchgdave wrote: »

Typical , the greatest aviation event in the country in over a year , and the Dubs get it for free and dont even tell the rest of us about it .

I would have gotten the train from Galway had I been informed .

At least when we had the Salthill Airshow it was well advertised , bet our fighter jets were louder than yours .

If you had been reading this forum last week, you would have got a heads up that an F-16 flypast was on the cards for today (I can't seem to find it now).

uchgdave

Yea im raging I missed them , my own fault ,plus my usual sources of info let me down on this one .

Gonna have to have a little word with someone .

Piliger

They flew over me in Ranelagh but I couldn't get outside in time to seem damn it :mad::mad::mad: Fantastic roar !!

westdub

Captain Chaos wrote: »

They usually fly with dummy AMRAAM missiles on the wingtips at all times as it improves drag and wing flutter despite carrying some extra weight.

The only problem is all dummy or practice ordnance is marked with the colour blue to make sure it never gets mixed up with the real thing and none of the missiles carried by either F-16 had any blue markings.....

Tenger

uchgdave wrote: »

Typical , the greatest aviation event in the country in over a year , and the Dubs get it for free and dont even tell the rest of us about it .

I would have gotten the train from Galway had I been informed ..

Judging by the online uproar the Dubs didn't know about it either.
And a train from Galway may not have been worth it for the 2-3 mins max you might have seen them.

The Dublin Airport spotters only put the info up yesterday. Looks like Boards.ie was well ahead of the rest this time.

westdub wrote: »

The only problem is all dummy or practice ordnance is marked with the colour blue to make sure it never gets mixed up with the real thing and none of the missiles carried by either F-16 had any blue markings.....

Looking at one pic on flickr you can see that both aircraft have what looks like an AIM-120 AMRAAM on their the wingtip pylons.
In addition the outermost left pylon on each aircraft is loaded. Looks like an Aim-9 on the lead aircraft, more slender munition on the #2.
Would I be right in thinking that the belly pod is an ECM pod?
Under the cockpit we see the Link 16 gear on the left.
What is on the right hand side? Target designator?


AMRAAM and Sidewinder equipped F-18:
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/amraam-dvic409.jpg

Blue inert/training round:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AIM-9L_DF-ST-82-10199.jpg

Wiki image of Sidewinder variants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder#mediaviewer/File:AIM-9B-9D-9C_NAN3-71.jpg


Personally I doubt they would carry live rounds when the application clearly stated 'no munitions'

Duffer2010

Has to be one of the best sounds ever.Reminds me of ;
Saab Draken display-Baldonnel in 93'
Typhoon at Salthill in 2007
Dutch F 16 burning off fuel by way of a display over Baldonnel before he landed in 1997(for 75th IAC Anniversary Airshow)


Magic

andy_g

Display loading is inert rounds however display loads will not always be painted blue but will carry inert markings/display loading on the sides.

uchgdave

yea 2007 was one of the best years we ever had in salthill.

From our crows nest position we saw it comming from behind , caught everyone out .


Those were the Golden days of aviation for me anyway , afraid its been all downhill from that point on .