All this airplane talk...you guys know , Luke AFB is practically in my back yard, and Luke is this huge training base for the F-35’s, they are in the air all the time and flying right over my house. I keep riding out to Luke , there is farm road close to the runway and I want to get a photo of an F-35 taking off behind my bike.
Do you think I can ever catch those birds taking off. I see them flying around and I ride out there and sit and sit, and nothing. Someday....
Back in the late 80’s when Luke was THE big training base for F-16’s, I used to drive out there in my pickup , with lunch from McDonalds and you could park right off the end of the runway. I would sit on my tailgate eating my lunch and those F-16’s would absolutely roar directly over me , about 30’ above. It was a hoot.
9-11 changed all that forever. You can’t park anywhere along that road anymore, and there are TWO layers of new, tall , chain link fences topped with razor wire. Ahh well....the world has changed.