I get a little touchy on this issue because the Air Force has been turning down requests for “missing man flights” for military funerals because of “operational considerations.” Given that the aircraft are stationed here, and the flights could be conducted in conjunction with normal flight operations, i.e. on the way to and from ranges, 700 mile round trips grate a little.
]]>…and I mean WEEKLY. There are 36 Nextel Cup points events between mid-Feb. and late Nov., everywhere from Daytona to Dallas to Dover (Del.) to California (with many stops in between, and every one of them will have a fly-over of F-15’s or F-16’s or B-2’s or the marvelously misnamed F-117 (fighter? No guns; no missles?) or F/A-18’s or Apache’s or Blackhawks or whatever else they can get their hands on. One does wonder just how much this adds up to over the course of a season…
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