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Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:45 am

F-15 Eagle near Pyrocumulus

Some pictures from the Oregon Gulch fire, credit: Oregon Air National Guard
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I wonder if they flew through it?

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Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:52 am

Re: F-15 Eagle near Pyrocumulus

Zero chance they flew through it. Cool photos though.
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Tue Aug 05, 2014 9:49 am

Re: F-15 Eagle near Pyrocumulus

Wow.
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Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:49 am

Re: F-15 Eagle near Pyrocumulus

cool 8)
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Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:32 pm

Re: F-15 Eagle near Pyrocumulus

That is eerily impressive. Mother nature is a bitch.
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Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:09 pm

Re: F-15 Eagle near Pyrocumulus

We just had a CF18 struck by lightning a couple weeks ago not far from where I live. I bet that pilot stays a bit further away from storm clouds now...
Love the clouds that the smoke make though. Looks pretty powerful.
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Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:06 pm

Re: F-15 Eagle near Pyrocumulus

Nice shots! First student I ever soloed is flying for the Oregon National Guard. Wonder if one of them was him? :D
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Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:34 pm

Re: F-15 Eagle near Pyrocumulus

tcj wrote:I wonder if they flew through it?

:lol:
Not if they wanted to used the compressor or turbine sections of the engines again... that fine ash destroys them in minutes or seconds.
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Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:28 pm

Re: F-15 Eagle near Pyrocumulus

Prolly hosing around in the TFR.. :D

Cool pix, though.

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Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:31 am

Re: F-15 Eagle near Pyrocumulus

That fire has been a complete and total bitch.... Winds pick up real bad over there in the afternoons and evenings.... It doubled in size three nights in a row...

I have friends up there on a private strip, his cub is sitting at my place now.... Fire came through and took out is water system but left his house and hanger so he got lucky... His neighbors to the south lost everything...

Cool pics of the F-15s though..

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