Trump departs Mesa Arizona, October 19th, 2018

I attended the Trump rally last Friday night. Mesa is my backyard.
There were thousands of people and a line over a mile long.

I was roughly 200 people too far back in line in order to get a seat within the hangar to see Trump personally.

Prior to the end of the rally, I headed around to the opposite side of the airfield.
This allowed me to capture the President's departure and the escort.

There were 5 aircraft in total (that we could see).

It was quite a site. The sound of all 5 aircraft was pretty awesome.

a reply to: LedermanStudio

Your video is broken. Post a link and i’ll Help ya or fix it. I wouldn’t mind actually seeing the take off.

:edit: here ya go!

originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: LedermanStudio

Your video is broken. Post a link and i’ll Help ya or fix it. I wouldn’t mind actually seeing the take off.

I'm trying to figure out why it's broken...

www.youtube.com...
EDIT: thanks amigo. Apparently youtube still had it listed as private. Did you enjoy the video?

a reply to: LedermanStudio


Ya that was pretty cool! In the end it seems like you may have had the best seat

Holy Scit!! Thanks for posting! After seeing those take off and fly so slow, hearing the sound and seeing the light markings, I now know what I probably have been seeing flying above my house at nights and especially flying over this huge parking lot area (almost 1 sq mile of paved surface with odd activity at times) between 11pm & 2am years ago. I'd see what I thought was a 1-3 helicopters flying above this lot like it was doing very slow surveillance (it's a business) and it looked like they all flew off away from me, but I think they landed there. I never thought about the possibilities of these and I could never figure out why there would be a patrol helicopter let alone a few over this place at that time of night as they never have anything like that. The only difference was they had blue/red/white strobe lights at the bottom of the air craft that were strobbing at an odd pattern I had never seen before.

NEWS at 5....

Today, Trump held a rally in Mesa AZ and only 6 people attended it from extreme distance.... More to follow...

a reply to: Xtrozero

HAHAHA....

a reply to: LedermanStudio

What no Chewbacca dub? No imperial stormtroopers?!

This is an outrage!

It was kind of funny seeing the C-5 and C-17 sitting on the hard stands beside the passenger terminal at Sky Harbor.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
It was kind of funny seeing the C-5 and C-17 sitting on the hard stands beside the passenger terminal at Sky Harbor.

I did a lot of Presidential support back when I flew C-141s...we never broke, I guess that is why they used us so much. As the old story goes what do you call 2 C-5s and only one is on jacks....they only have one set of jacks...

a reply to: Xtrozero

The presidential transports are the only C-5s I've never seen broken.

originally posted by: Zaphod58


The presidential transports are the only C-5s I've never seen broken.

Back in the 80s our sister squadron at Travis AFB was C-5 and they could never make it past Hickam and we would go around the world and hardly have a write-up.

a reply to: Xtrozero

Yeah, it was amazing how many jets of all types made it to us and "broke".

originally posted by: Zaphod58


Yeah, it was amazing how many jets of all types made it to us and "broke".

The secret was they actually left home broke...

a reply to: Zaphod58

Broken, or "broken"?

a reply to: seagull

We always knew exactly how much money the crew had at any given moment. It usually went something like this-

Us-What's your status?
Them-Code 3 for (insert convenient failure)
U-Ok, we'll check with supply and see if we have to order parts or if we have them on hand. Go ahead down to the hotel and we'll let you know.
T-Ok, take your time.

A few days go by.

T- So how long until parts get here?(Realizing it was more expensive than they thought.)

A few more days-

T- Hey, we really need to get the jet fixed and get home. (Still some money, but pretty low)

Finally-

T- You know what, we're ok to fly it home like that. We'll just fix it when we get home.

a reply to: Xtrozero

Oh we knew what they were doing. We usually laughed.