Jets in formation

At about 3:20pm today I was in Boca Raton and saw 3 jets flying south in a tight formation just near the beach. The biggest may have been a GIV or GV and it looked plain white. I looked for an orange stripe to indicate it was the coastguard, but saw none. The other planes were slightly smaller and I don’t have much detail from them. Any idea what that could of been? or did anyone see this?

I’ve seen something similar in Long Island. Probably a photo session?

They flew right over my house yesterday, coming from the north, one looked like a fighter jet. I am in Royal Palm Beach, it appeared they were turning east to land at PBI. Jets all day everyday over me when landing on 9L/9R :smiley:

Sounds fun. Too bad there’s no STARs/SIDs over my house. I’m about as close to the airport as you can without having one.

Story on the photo op here:

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Includes pic and vid goodness…

Well my post was before the fly-by happened. I was referring to a formation flight I saw 2-3 years ago on Long Island shore.

Nowww…how tallybanner came up with the thread just before it caused a scare, makes me wonder if he/she can look into future! :smiley:

Hey guys! Someone just sent me this thread on Facebook. I was in the one of the airplanes that was doing the formation flight. It was Learjet 55, a G- IIB and an L-39. We were doing a mini airshow for a charity event in Boca.

I took some pics from my iphone. If you want to see them, post your email!

Feel free to post right here. Insert the link and post the img tags on either end link%20to%20foto

OK, Koreelove, we see that Phantomjet doesn’t want them, but several others among us are curious. Would you please post them (e.g. Photobucket) and link to them here? Thank you kindly.

Yea, it is fun , but no heavys :frowning: unless you consider the 757 a heavy, but i don’t. All is good though!!

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and thanks to everyone else :slight_smile:

p.s. I said I would email them becuase I can easily do that with my iPhone.

nevertheless, it was a cool experience :slight_smile:

Yup, that was definitely what I saw. Thanks so much, I never expected that when I posted. It was pretty cool to see and must have been even cooler to be a part of.

yes, me too!! Did you all land at PBI as I suspected ?

no, we took off and landed from FXE

It was fun, but really scary for me. I have done that before and when we took off I wasn’t sure what we were doing, i was just along for the ride. Then the captain told me we were doing a formation flight. So I grabbed a pillow and held on. It’s not often you look out the window and see a airplane flying right next to you. You can’t really tell how far away they are.

When we were landing, the L-39 was right next to us, then when we touched down, he shot up. ATC was happy to have an airshow and thanked us after. BNut still…I was scared, but I trust the pilots :slight_smile:

very nice photos