My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:56 pm
I am doing an article for the NMUSAF Friend's Journal about the history of this group and thought you might like to see some of the pics that I got. The men and women of this unit are top notch. Super nice people.
And the very well maintained historic aircraft.
And the very well maintained historic aircraft.
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sat Dec 19, 2009 4:36 pm
They also have an A-7 if anyone wants to see it
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:06 pm
Well, of course we want to see it! I miss seeing the F-16 trainers buzzing around here. They moved that wing out of MacDill years ago. The tanker wing just isn't the same thing!!!
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:23 pm
Great pics. I have always loved to see the 178th fly their fighters around here. When I was taking flying lessons with the Aeroclub at WPAFB , we would do touch and go's at Springfield ANGB. It is pretty neat having F-16's fly by you in the traffic pattern.
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:10 am
Beautiful pics! The only time I've ever seen their aircraft was while taxiing past their base in the Yankee Air Museum's C-47 (I took one of their "day trips" from Willow Run to NMUSAF a few years ago. I can heartily recommend it..not all that expensive, and worth every penny!)
SN
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Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:43 am
Dude, tell me you atleast swung by "Young's Dairy" before you headed out. 
Shay
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Shay
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Semper Fortis
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:56 pm
No I didn't. What is Young's Dairy?
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:08 pm
Must have meant this place, never been there or heard of it myself.
http://www.youngsdairy.com/
http://www.youngsdairy.com/
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sun Dec 20, 2009 7:26 pm
mustangdriver wrote:No I didn't. What is Young's Dairy?
Only the best place to get ice cream in the Dayton area (if not all of Ohio
but I biased). It's just down the road from where you were. In fact on a good day I like to take the kiddies there and let them get slobbered on by the goats, while I pull up a picnic table with a double scoop of banana and watch the 178th go at it. A little while ago they had a Danish squadron out visiting in their Vipers.Some of my best memories as a kid are of the Springfield Guard trimming the tree tops in their A-7 Corsair IIs, back in the early '90s.
Shay
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Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sun Dec 20, 2009 7:44 pm
That one pilot must have spent time as a "Panton"...
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:06 pm
Shay,
Thanks for the heads-up about Young's Dairy.
Ice Cream & Warbirds make a wonderful day even better.
Thanks for the heads-up about Young's Dairy.
Ice Cream & Warbirds make a wonderful day even better.
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:35 pm
APG85 wrote:That one pilot must have spent time as a "Panton"...
What is that ?
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:51 am
mustangdriver wrote:APG85 wrote:That one pilot must have spent time as a "Panton"...
What is that ?
The picture of the pilot in the cockpit with his fist up and two fingers. Thats the "Push it up" symbol of the 35th FS "Pantons"...part of the 8th FW "Wolfpack". I'm assuming that pilot spent some time in the 35th...
Re: My time with the 178th Fighter Wing
Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:29 am
It was not a Danish Squadron Visiting. The Dutch train all their F-16 pilots at Springfield. I believe that they have a six year contract with the 178th. You can see their planes in the pics. They are the f-16's that do not have the cat on the tail and have a red, white and blue roundel on them. The Dutch planes are F-16A/B's that have undergone their upgrade program. I have met alot of the Dutch pilots and they have all been great guys and love the flying weather here in the States.