Aviation Nerd /Worker for two great aviation museums / virtual pilot and real life ballast weight / Check out my YouTube channel (link below)

Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Joined November 2020
If you don't see much of me on the YouTube front..... I've been playing other games on the side. For instance, the Mass Effect trilogy..... And I have been having fun. Still a bit sad about Bioware.....
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A little plane spotting at Meacham today.
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youtube.com/shorts/CcoWkZxRU… Stopped at Vintage Flying Museum after work yesterday… Caught the Goose starting up and watched it leave.
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*Jaws theme intensifies*
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There was a B-52 in the pattern at the local base today. I just so happened to have been in that part of town, so I set up and got some pics and video.
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Someone has fun… You don’t see a Pilatus PC-7 around these parts very often….
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Fouga CM-170 Magister, a French two-seat twin-engine jet trainer. This example belongs to a private outfit in Fort Worth. I would love to fly this aircraft. It looks like a lot of fun.
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A couple of firefighting tankers came through Meacham overnight, and left this morning.
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Not every day that a 727 comes through town
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Some other aircraft that were flying at the Rose City Airfest, including 3 F/A-18C Hornets, a TA-4 Skyhawk, a C-17 Globemaster III, and a team of kit planes performing formation flybys:
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There were some L-39 Albatros jet trainers out at the Rose City Airfest, as well.
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A few shots of the Viper Demo Team F-16, flown by “FEMA”, performing at the Rose City Airfest in Tyler, Texas.
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Not easy to tell from this photo, but I caught some T-45 Goshawks going to Alliance.
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Cessna 172. This particular plane and I have a bit of history. Back in 2014, after a several years long hiatus from actually flying, I took a “rediscovery” flight in 87G, flying around the Eagle Mountain Lake area before landing back at KFTW.
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One of VMGR-234s KC-130J Hercules tankers made an overnight stop at Meacham. Caught him heading out this morning.
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youtu.be/YUrkx93ctT4?si=L_b4… Getting some practice in, just in case the Super Connie decides to throw a curveball at me when I do my audio-visual redo episode soon....
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Apologies in advance to any of y’all who are Patriots fans. I couldn’t resist…
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Attended the 2026 Big Band Hangar Dance at the Vintage Flying Museum, as I have done for at least 8 of the last 14 years. The DC-3 “Southern Cross” was the centerpiece of the event this year. Didn’t take too many pictures, but I did manage this black and white shot of the DC-3.
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The Coast Guard made a brief visit to Meacham Field today with one of their HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft.
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