F/A-18 Landing at SJC. Why?
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F/A-18 Landing at SJC. Why?
Earlier today a Hornet landed at SJC. I’ve been plane spotting there for years, and have never seen a fighter takeoff or land out of SJC ever before. Moffet is just a few miles NW of SJC. Fighters fly in and out of Moffet regularly. Was the F/A-18 that flew into SJC most likely having a technical issue which prompted an immediate landing?
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Earlier today a Hornet landed at SJC. I’ve been plane spotting there for years, and have never seen a fighter takeoff or land out of SJC ever before. Moffet is just a few miles NW of SJC. Fighters fly in and out of Moffet regularly. Was the F/A-18 that flew into SJC most likely having a technical issue which prompted an immediate landing?
Did you get a look at any squadron markings?
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No, Google keeps their private fleet of airplanes there. They have an agreement with the feds to run experiments in labs set up on their aircraft and they do flight testing with NASA stuff as well. They just built a huge corporate jet facility out there.
It’s a win win. Google gets a huge airport in their backyard. NASA keeps their facility in a town where the property value of that airport way exceeds any value the government possibly gets from it. The locals stay happy since it is now part of the local economy and google will spend the money to keep them happy and the deal intact.
I flew an aircraft in there a few years ago when I flew for Uncle. It is a great, historic place. We were the only show in town though, and had the giant base ops ramp all to ourselves. The blimp hangar was being redone at the time and we got to take a look around.
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No, Google keeps their private fleet of airplanes there. They have an agreement with the feds to run experiments in labs set up on their aircraft and they do flight testing with NASA stuff as well. They just built a huge corporate jet facility out there.
It’s a win win. Google gets a huge airport in their backyard. NASA keeps their facility in a town where the property value of that airport way exceeds any value the government possibly gets from it. The locals stay happy since it is now part of the local economy and google will spend the money to keep them happy and the deal intact.
I flew an aircraft in there a few years ago when I flew for Uncle. It is a great, historic place. We were the only show in town though, and had the giant base ops ramp all to ourselves. The blimp hangar was being redone at the time and we got to take a look around.
It’s a win win. Google gets a huge airport in their backyard. NASA keeps their facility in a town where the property value of that airport way exceeds any value the government possibly gets from it. The locals stay happy since it is now part of the local economy and google will spend the money to keep them happy and the deal intact.
I flew an aircraft in there a few years ago when I flew for Uncle. It is a great, historic place. We were the only show in town though, and had the giant base ops ramp all to ourselves. The blimp hangar was being redone at the time and we got to take a look around.
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I flew a NASA load in there in the C-5; it was great history and blimp hangar is amazing. Always memorable as we left for home on 9/10/2001. Chaired the weekly scheduling meeting the next day at 0830 only to end it in record time.
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