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Huh? F-5E's?
Posted by Bones-coa on Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:06 AM
Guys, I was just standing outside of my work near a Georgia Air Guard base and saw a pair US Air Force F-5Es land. I thought that aircraft had been retired? The air force is till using them? I know they weren't air guard aircraft as I saw the USAF designation on the tails.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:09 AM
aggressor aircraft?
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Posted by Bones-coa on Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:13 AM
Hmmm...could be. I couldn't tell for sure, but they were either camoed in Dark grey or green.
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Posted by Bones-coa on Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:18 AM
Well, something's up. About 6 F-15's just landed too.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:52 AM
Maybe trainers. At a recent airshow the had an active T-38. I thought they'd be all gone too. It was also done up in camo.
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Posted by Bones-coa on Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:56 AM
Heh...actually, I saw T-38's out here last week. They were white and red with Navy markings. These were definately F-5's. Now, I'll admit I'm guessing they were E models.

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Posted by allan on Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:16 AM
Were they twin seaters?

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:17 AM
The T-38 at the airshow was air force and was, i believe, from a training squadron.
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Posted by Bones-coa on Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:18 AM
I couldn't tell for sure if they were twin seaters but I don't think so.

They were totally clean...no drop tanks or anything.

I'd say in the last hour, at least 15 or 20 F-15's have landed. They were carrying a pair of drop tanks each.
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Posted by allan on Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:25 AM
Busy day, huh?

If those F-5s/T-38s dont have wingtip Sidewinder rails, theyre most likely T-38s.

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Posted by Bones-coa on Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:26 AM
Actually, plum, you may be right. They may have been T-38's. I just looked up the T-38 at fas.org and I didn't realize that the F5 and T-38 were basically the same aircraft.

The trainers I saw the other day looke similar to an F-5 but were smaller and only had one engine. I thought those were T-38's.

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Posted by Bones-coa on Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:29 AM
Found em. T-45. These are what I saw the other day.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/t-45.htm
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:16 AM
FYI. Some F-5's had one engine. As for the plane actually being a T-45, maybe you need new glasses. ; )
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:31 AM
the f5's with 1 eng were f20's. the t38 is still in active af service as are the at38b's. the at38 could very well be mistaken for an f5 as they also had camo schemes.
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Posted by Bones-coa on Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:34 AM
Right...but the F-20's were never in service so obviously it wasn't them. Smile [:)]
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Posted by Bones-coa on Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:26 PM
Well, an E-3 just landed so there is definatly something going on! Man, I'm not getting any work done today!!

Dana
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:43 PM
Are you in Florida? If so, might just be for security, the President is over here today, ya know!
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Posted by Bones-coa on Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:44 PM
Well, I'm in Savannah GA. That is kinda close to Florida. What part is he in?
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:15 PM
since we have a long post about F-5's (even though they seren't really F-5's) I'd like to say that I'd like to see a new tooling F-5 series in 1/72. If we can get Hasegawa to do a F-20, why not an F-5?
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Posted by 72cuda on Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:22 PM
Hey Bones;
yeah the T-38's being used by the USAF are either White from Altis AFB, Edwards AFB, Canavral AFS (NASA), Tinker AFB, Dk & Lt Grey from Tinker AFB, Altis AFB, Gunship Grey from Whiteman AFB, Black From Holloman AFB, Beale AFB, but the single engined A/C are the USN's T-45's the USAF only uses T-6's, T-37's, & T-38's now they retired the rest around 1994 or 5

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 14, 2003 4:52 AM
I'm guessing they were AT-38's from LIFT (Lead In FIghter Training) out of Moody AFB, GA. Probably doing a cross-country. The 479 FTG has two units flying camo versions of the T-38. The 49 FTS at Moody flys T-38C's (two-tone grey) and the 435 FTS flys AT-38B's (three-tone grey/blue). Here's a link with a photo of two camo AT-38B's:

http://www.af.mil/media/photodb/photos/021203-O-9999G-009.jpg
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 14, 2003 6:28 AM
Maybe with the bad weather forecasted to blow through much of the states, the USAF has moved aircraft to different locations out of harms way.

Darren
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