About 12 laps over our house. Set off innumerable car alarms. They were ripping too
I didn’t see any of it but I certainly heard it. We Live near the U, on heavily tree lined streets so we can’t see much, but it sounded like afternoons I’ve spent in Weber County, South Ogden, etc, near Hill AFB, not what our little corner of the Salt Lake Valley is used to.
Anyone know what is going on? Are they expanding their training boundaries? It occurs me to ask if they are preparing for the 250th 4th of July Celebration? Or God help us, you know who’s 80th birthday celebration?
I’ve lived within 2 miles of my current address all but 4 years of my life, and the only thing I ever remember that compared to the noise of this afternoon, was the frequent flyovers at Rice Eccles when Air Force used to make regular visits.
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living in SLC for 25 years never seen more than a triple flying low an slow for the 4th or a team flying around 5,00 feet going somewhere none to fast.
This was 4 F-35’s ripping 45 degree turns in unison over and over again aprox 400+ mph. Sometimes lower than 1,000 feet. Seemed they were flying a loop from Millcreek staying east of I-15 to Provo and then back up the foothills and banking hard left turns in a big, but still pretty tight arch and punching it south. At least a dozen times. Wonder how much gas that cost? On one of the last go rounds they made almost a loose diamond formation north of 33rd but the rear two planes got close and broke off, then they really ripped it south under a thousand feet. Could see the pilots. Wild to hear car alarms going off and the birds were like “Uh, were gonna let those steel birds take over for a while…”
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It’s been a while since I saw this number, and it includes more than just fuel, but it’s at least $35k/hr to operate an F-35.
I started hearing about these flyovers last night as they were going on, but I was out in S. Jordan watching a grandson’s baseball game rather than home in the middle of the valley where I could have watched. I’ve seen and heard plenty from my days working in Clearfield though and my office was a couple of hundred feet from where we were making wing skins and nacelles for them.
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Given the unrest in the world I’ve got to admit these jet flyovers are pretty unnerving. When it’s by Hill where it regularly happens it is great fun to watch, but when they start zooming around you wonder if some terrorist activity has gone down.
Last night was remarkable in what they were doing. Hard banks and really low. Fun to watch but I checked the internet after the first pass.
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I have so much flying over my house every day, I wouldn’t have noticed. If it happened here on the west side.
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@Greginslc, I beg to differ. You woulda known. As @RockerUte was saying, this was pretty aggressive flying for not being over an airbase tarmac or the flats. Maybe they were doing mock persuits? Would be interesting for someone with
Combat know-how to opine.
They weren’t flying erratically: It seemed controlled, but definitely hard banks at high velocity and afterburners going. Ripping-the-air-apart loud. And they were scooting along! Giddyup!!
But they were up for like an hour.
I mean, they did at least ten or twelve passes.
It’s funny, because the news article is, like, “Oh a couple people noticed this…”
I mean, the entire east valley of Salt Lake had to be paying attention. I’ve never seen 4 millitary jets going that fast and that low (unless I was at an air show). I have never seen 4 jets banking corners that were almost vertical to the ground, with vaper trails comming off the tips unless they’re at an air show.
There used to be a time when news articles answered the who, what, where, when, why and how to fullfill complete journalistic standards
Jets fly over Salt Lake Valley for Utah Talons softball team’s opener, Hill Air Force Base says Jets fly over Salt Lake Valley for Utah Talons softball team's opener, Hill Air Force Base says
So they got a Lt. To describe this as “nothing to see” for a Softball opening? Softball?
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This reddit feed is much more comprehensive comentary and quite interesting
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I suspect they were deployed to intercept Chinese aircraft flying in paid data center agitators.
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Circling around a China balloon…
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Any event can request a flyover.
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