Heartfelt thanks to Seymore-Johnson AFB

[belchfire]

The pilot group at Corporate Airlines has had a
rough few months with the loss of our Flight
5966 and then the death of CA Chris Miller last
saturday in a car wreck.

Yesterday afternoon (02/08/05) about 1530 EST as
the graveside prayers were concluding some of
your F-15's shattered the silence of a perfect
North Carolina afternoon. Thank you! As we
were putting our Brother Pilot to rest nothing
could have been more appropriate! Thanks for
helping us give Chris a good send off!

If we ever meet the pilots that were flying those
sexy fighters their money is no good...the drinks
are on us!

Good Hunting Guys and Gals...

 

[Mongoose69]

belchfire,

I've still got lots of buds back at See-My. With just a little more info, I'll give them a ring. Was this a "missing man" formation? And where were you located (especially if it wasn't a planned formation)?

I'm sorry for your loss...

Mongoose

 

[belchfire]

No missing man formation and to my knowledge it was unplanned,
just really good timing on someone's part.

Wayne Memorial Park is the graveyard, I think that it is
SW of the Base (but I was not driving) and (again a guess)
North of Mt. Olive.

 

[Mongoose69]

Ahh, that's the departure corridor for anyone going to the south from RW 26. I still might be able to find out who it is if you're interested.

 

[belchfire]

Yeah, sure, find out or at least direct them to
this page so they get the message.

I don't know if it will help, but seemed like
they switched runways while the flight was
out, landing opposite of the departures.
Either that or they made a pass opposite
direction to landing and reversed to land.

I'm sure other groups may not appreciate
the timing but for us it could not have been
better.

Thanks,

Belch