Yesterday morning, I heard several high flying jets go over my house. Time was I would log on here to check on what's going on. Then in the afternoon I watched annapolis graduation and realized those jets were the Angels.
Not the first time. I live on one of the approaches to pax river.
When I worked on the base, the bi yearly airshow was outside our hangar. We got front row seats, without the crowds, to the rehearsal. And the day of the show lots of people watched it from their boats on the bay.
That is awesome! I would love to have a house in the area, we have a friend who lives there and was a Naval Aviator, now he flys for Delta out of their Atlanta hub.
My husband and I took an early retirement on Oct 31, 2018 and the next day on Nov 1, we checked into our hotel on Pensacola Beach, turned on the TV and they were announcing that POTUS had added a last minute Rally in Pensacola! We got to see the Blue Angels on Friday fly in their Homecoming Air Show and the next day POTUS' Rally! I'm still pumped from those beautiful events!
The irony of my life is I don't totally trust things that fly in the sky but my entire working life I was associated with aircraft, including my years on the Hill where I worked for two pilots and was privileged to meet a good number of greats in aviation. One of my bosses was instrumental in building the Smithsonian air museum and he arranged for an early morning tour conducted by Mike (?) Collins, the astronaut. I wasn't important but I had a front row seat to some interesting history.
I'm excited you were witness to so much history. I think that must hast been very memorable to be toured by Mike Collins! You should write a book or a blog!
God bless you, but no. When I first started working on the Hill, with an inside look on what it was like to give up privacy and actually face the pitfalls of money and fame, I got a very clear revelation about the price one pays. It was too dear for me. Not for all the rice in China would I enter that fray. And I do not regret that decision but acknowledge I have had an interesting life behind the scenes.
I have seen what the pursuit and attainment of money has done to my brother. Money isn't that important to me, and nothing is worth the loss of my privacy. I'm glad you ultimately didn't get sucked in also.
I know the feeling. I may be different though. My lack of trust isn't because I have a fear of flying (I don't) - it is because I know what can be easily done to most planes by the passengers. Specifically the ones with entertainment systems are the ones I worry about the most.
Note - most of the egregious vulnerabilities as well as potential pathways between the public airplane network and the control network are likely fixed, or are impossible to exploit in the case of an airline using a one-way fiber data diode that doesn't have a physical return path. If they rely on a firewall or ACLs for protection they are vulnerable. There may also be new(er) vulnerabilities now due to ground-to-air satellite communications (not StarLink, but other satcom). A DHS red team broke into a plane on the ground in an airport using this method a few years back.
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Here are a couple articles talking about these vulnerabilities:
I believe the first world countries and their airlines are probably safe from most - if not all - of these methods now. Third-world airlines... if your plane has chickens on board you might want to pray.
Lol. No chickens, but we once caught a flight from Beef Island where we met the pilot in the bar and takeoff was delayed because of goats on the flight line. Does that count?
I've been on everything from military planes, to little baby prop planes that carried 6-8 people, to Lear or Gulfstream jets, to the biggest Air Bus/Boeing planes. The Gulfstream I was on was a flight from Peterson AFB to Scott AFB, and on to Andrews AFB. My dad was getting a kidney transplant while I was at NORAD so I got emergency leave and took space-A to get home. The only flight out was marked as private, but a General saw me at the counter and overheard me talking about my Dad. He offered to take me on that private flight, and it turned out he was the Superintendent of the Air Force Academy, and was a former Thunderbirds pilot. His pilot was also a former Thunderbirds pilot. Both of them were great guys. I may have been on one of his last flights since he retired around that time. He even did the take-off and landing himself, and turned it over to the pilot in-between.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Hamm
One of the baby prop planes I was on got boxed in by another plane and a fuel truck while at the gate waiting to take off, and me and 3 more male passengers had to get out - in freezing and snowy weather - and push the plane 180 degrees and then about 50 feet towards the runway so the pilot could turn on the engines safely.
One time on China Southern the flight attendant had to give me her jump seat so my legs would fit. The room between the seat rows was just too narrow and I couldn't sit down. I towered over everyone on the plane.
I also took the same flight every Friday for over a year a while back, and the same flight attendant always had my snack and a Scotch waiting for me when I boarded. Nice older lady getting ready to retire. She would give me a bag with the wine that had been opened on the flight (recorked) so I could take it home - they can't use it the next day anyway - and have a couple of good dinners with my wife before I turned around and left again Monday morning. I flew 166 flight segments that year.
I've also been on flights where we were struck by lightning (once even at the gate while the door was still open), a guy died on one and we were expedited for landing and taxi straight to the gate at DFW, and I've sat beside several celebrities (I always got upgraded when I flew all the time). I sat next to Pitbull (and his dog), Amar'e Stoudemire (and the rest of the 2004 US Olympic Basketball Team was all around us), and President Carter was even on one of my flights, although he sat in Coach. Amar'e let me try on his $50k watch with diamonds all around the face, and Tim Duncan let me try on one of his rings. I sat next to a Dallas Cowboy defensive player once (can't remember his name - they haven't won since the late '90s) and he let me try on his Superbowl ring. It didn't even fit my thumb.
My favorite one was an emergency leave flight (when my dad died and I was overseas) on a C-5. The flight was nearly empty (aside from the cargo) so the crew chief asked me if I wanted to go into the bay and throw a football around for a while. That bay was huge! I'm sure the chief knew why I was on emergency leave, so he kept me occupied instead of sitting there thinking about a funeral. We went from Germany, to Bangor Maine, to Andrews AFB. My family still lived in Maryland so it was the perfect route for me.
We were mere miles from you. My sister and I were the next in line to get on the bus when they said no more room. We were disappointed, but had a great time with everyone else outside. Bought my MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hat. It was the only time I have actually seen Air Force One fly over. They flew so low, because they were coming in for a landing, that you could actually see people in the windows! Sent chills! We were in the field, outside the gate to PNS airport. They fly directly over my brother’s house every time. I will usually go to the shows at least once a year, on Pensacola Beach, but can’t get off the beach till 2 am! lol Congrats on the retirement, I retired in 2020. Let me know if you ever come this way again. Maybe we can get a few from this area for a meet and greet, starting with Notimportant81!
That would be so special to finally get to meet everyone I'm at least in the area!
That Rally was packed and it was in medium sized hangar...SO SORRY you didn't get in after all of that waiting! We had fun standing outside in the field and we got their early. I started a WWG1WGA Chant. What a day! Afterwards we went to McGuire's Pub to eat! Yum! 🍀
This is the thing I miss the most from my time in the USAF. I was only stationed at one base that actually had planes - RAF Alconbury, UK. The others were the Pentagon, Ankara Turkey, and NORAD. Alconbury though was awesome. The planes I remember were the A-10 and the TR-1. One is quiet until it is 500 ft directly above you (screwing with people walking on the road by the runway) and the other is dorm-room-shaking loud since it took off at a big angle to keep civilians from getting good pictures of the classified equipment on the nose of the plane. Its been over 35 years since I left that base, and I miss seeing and hearing that daily. I fully agree with that old saying, calling that noise "the sound of freedom".
Jets from Pensacola Naval Air Station flies over into Alabama where I live. Don't know if they are the Angels or not though. I did get to see them up close when I went to one of their shows years ago and was fortunate enough to be on the tarmac as they did their show. Afterwards we got to get pictures with them. It was so cool!
Its weird. I use the website and it’s not working on either my phone or my tablet. However my husband uses the app and he says it’s working on his phone.
Yes, there is respectful and somethings different respectful. I was also caught by the foreign military saluting during our national anthem. And that every country was playing our national anthem.
There was a line of military members meeting him, saluting and shaking hands like when he does a commencement address at a service academy.
Note - when JD did the address at the Naval Academy graduation the other day they of course did not salute him - he is not in the chain of command. Only the President. A lot of people don't realize that.
I've been posting these videos by Dan the last few days (there's been a few of them) and hardly get any attention, so decided not to post this one yesterday when he posted it. Here's the other Fighter Jet videos Dan has posted over the last week, maybe someone can figure out what he's trying to tell us...
I always pay attention to your posts GDZ...you do great work fren! The problem I have is there are so many great posts here and not enough hours in the day! 😺
A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a cyberattack where a target system is flooded with traffic from multiple sources, aiming to overwhelm its resources and make it unavailable to legitimate users.
I follow Dan on FB and there are no current post showing. He usually post every other day. There is no 2025 post, one 2024 and all the rest are old post from 2017 to 2021. I just looked again before answering. Now even the post are categorized into 1 year, 2,3,4, etc. and not the actual posts.
ETA: The correct layout is back, but still no new post.
ETA2: ….and it’s back to normal at 10:25 CST
Yesterday morning, I heard several high flying jets go over my house. Time was I would log on here to check on what's going on. Then in the afternoon I watched annapolis graduation and realized those jets were the Angels.
Omgosh! How cool the Blue Angels flew over you house!! 😎✈️
Not the first time. I live on one of the approaches to pax river.
When I worked on the base, the bi yearly airshow was outside our hangar. We got front row seats, without the crowds, to the rehearsal. And the day of the show lots of people watched it from their boats on the bay.
That is awesome! I would love to have a house in the area, we have a friend who lives there and was a Naval Aviator, now he flys for Delta out of their Atlanta hub.
My husband and I took an early retirement on Oct 31, 2018 and the next day on Nov 1, we checked into our hotel on Pensacola Beach, turned on the TV and they were announcing that POTUS had added a last minute Rally in Pensacola! We got to see the Blue Angels on Friday fly in their Homecoming Air Show and the next day POTUS' Rally! I'm still pumped from those beautiful events!
The irony of my life is I don't totally trust things that fly in the sky but my entire working life I was associated with aircraft, including my years on the Hill where I worked for two pilots and was privileged to meet a good number of greats in aviation. One of my bosses was instrumental in building the Smithsonian air museum and he arranged for an early morning tour conducted by Mike (?) Collins, the astronaut. I wasn't important but I had a front row seat to some interesting history.
I'm excited you were witness to so much history. I think that must hast been very memorable to be toured by Mike Collins! You should write a book or a blog!
God bless you, but no. When I first started working on the Hill, with an inside look on what it was like to give up privacy and actually face the pitfalls of money and fame, I got a very clear revelation about the price one pays. It was too dear for me. Not for all the rice in China would I enter that fray. And I do not regret that decision but acknowledge I have had an interesting life behind the scenes.
Well, I agree, fame is not for me, either!
I have seen what the pursuit and attainment of money has done to my brother. Money isn't that important to me, and nothing is worth the loss of my privacy. I'm glad you ultimately didn't get sucked in also.
I know the feeling. I may be different though. My lack of trust isn't because I have a fear of flying (I don't) - it is because I know what can be easily done to most planes by the passengers. Specifically the ones with entertainment systems are the ones I worry about the most.
Note - most of the egregious vulnerabilities as well as potential pathways between the public airplane network and the control network are likely fixed, or are impossible to exploit in the case of an airline using a one-way fiber data diode that doesn't have a physical return path. If they rely on a firewall or ACLs for protection they are vulnerable. There may also be new(er) vulnerabilities now due to ground-to-air satellite communications (not StarLink, but other satcom). A DHS red team broke into a plane on the ground in an airport using this method a few years back. . Here are a couple articles talking about these vulnerabilities:
https://ioactive.com/in-flight-hacking-system/ https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/magazine-features/inflight-cyberattacks/
I believe the first world countries and their airlines are probably safe from most - if not all - of these methods now. Third-world airlines... if your plane has chickens on board you might want to pray.
Lol. No chickens, but we once caught a flight from Beef Island where we met the pilot in the bar and takeoff was delayed because of goats on the flight line. Does that count?
Pretty much.
I've been on everything from military planes, to little baby prop planes that carried 6-8 people, to Lear or Gulfstream jets, to the biggest Air Bus/Boeing planes. The Gulfstream I was on was a flight from Peterson AFB to Scott AFB, and on to Andrews AFB. My dad was getting a kidney transplant while I was at NORAD so I got emergency leave and took space-A to get home. The only flight out was marked as private, but a General saw me at the counter and overheard me talking about my Dad. He offered to take me on that private flight, and it turned out he was the Superintendent of the Air Force Academy, and was a former Thunderbirds pilot. His pilot was also a former Thunderbirds pilot. Both of them were great guys. I may have been on one of his last flights since he retired around that time. He even did the take-off and landing himself, and turned it over to the pilot in-between. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Hamm
One of the baby prop planes I was on got boxed in by another plane and a fuel truck while at the gate waiting to take off, and me and 3 more male passengers had to get out - in freezing and snowy weather - and push the plane 180 degrees and then about 50 feet towards the runway so the pilot could turn on the engines safely.
One time on China Southern the flight attendant had to give me her jump seat so my legs would fit. The room between the seat rows was just too narrow and I couldn't sit down. I towered over everyone on the plane.
I also took the same flight every Friday for over a year a while back, and the same flight attendant always had my snack and a Scotch waiting for me when I boarded. Nice older lady getting ready to retire. She would give me a bag with the wine that had been opened on the flight (recorked) so I could take it home - they can't use it the next day anyway - and have a couple of good dinners with my wife before I turned around and left again Monday morning. I flew 166 flight segments that year.
I've also been on flights where we were struck by lightning (once even at the gate while the door was still open), a guy died on one and we were expedited for landing and taxi straight to the gate at DFW, and I've sat beside several celebrities (I always got upgraded when I flew all the time). I sat next to Pitbull (and his dog), Amar'e Stoudemire (and the rest of the 2004 US Olympic Basketball Team was all around us), and President Carter was even on one of my flights, although he sat in Coach. Amar'e let me try on his $50k watch with diamonds all around the face, and Tim Duncan let me try on one of his rings. I sat next to a Dallas Cowboy defensive player once (can't remember his name - they haven't won since the late '90s) and he let me try on his Superbowl ring. It didn't even fit my thumb.
My favorite one was an emergency leave flight (when my dad died and I was overseas) on a C-5. The flight was nearly empty (aside from the cargo) so the crew chief asked me if I wanted to go into the bay and throw a football around for a while. That bay was huge! I'm sure the chief knew why I was on emergency leave, so he kept me occupied instead of sitting there thinking about a funeral. We went from Germany, to Bangor Maine, to Andrews AFB. My family still lived in Maryland so it was the perfect route for me.
Still no chickens though...
You don't trust things that fly in the sky?
I don't much trust the sneaky critters that come in the house and fly either.
We were mere miles from you. My sister and I were the next in line to get on the bus when they said no more room. We were disappointed, but had a great time with everyone else outside. Bought my MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hat. It was the only time I have actually seen Air Force One fly over. They flew so low, because they were coming in for a landing, that you could actually see people in the windows! Sent chills! We were in the field, outside the gate to PNS airport. They fly directly over my brother’s house every time. I will usually go to the shows at least once a year, on Pensacola Beach, but can’t get off the beach till 2 am! lol Congrats on the retirement, I retired in 2020. Let me know if you ever come this way again. Maybe we can get a few from this area for a meet and greet, starting with Notimportant81!
That would be so special to finally get to meet everyone I'm at least in the area!
That Rally was packed and it was in medium sized hangar...SO SORRY you didn't get in after all of that waiting! We had fun standing outside in the field and we got their early. I started a WWG1WGA Chant. What a day! Afterwards we went to McGuire's Pub to eat! Yum! 🍀
Yep, McGuires is the best!
We always put our dollar on the wall by our table! 💵
I assume by "there" you mean southern MD. And if your friend was a pilot at Patuxent he was likely a test pilot, a special breed.
I lived on Solomons Island when I was a kid and used to listen to the jets fly over my house all the time. It was awesome. My mom worked at Pax river.
This is the thing I miss the most from my time in the USAF. I was only stationed at one base that actually had planes - RAF Alconbury, UK. The others were the Pentagon, Ankara Turkey, and NORAD. Alconbury though was awesome. The planes I remember were the A-10 and the TR-1. One is quiet until it is 500 ft directly above you (screwing with people walking on the road by the runway) and the other is dorm-room-shaking loud since it took off at a big angle to keep civilians from getting good pictures of the classified equipment on the nose of the plane. Its been over 35 years since I left that base, and I miss seeing and hearing that daily. I fully agree with that old saying, calling that noise "the sound of freedom".
How old are you? If you're around 40 to 44 you may have attended high school with my kids. And I may have known your mom. Small world.
Did you live there long enough to participate in the yearly opening of the Tiki Bar?
II lived there when Bunky Hipple owned the Tikki Bar. I'm a few years older than the numbers you posted though and we moved away before high school.
Actually we used to live right behind the Tikki bar, but the house is no longer there.
Jets from Pensacola Naval Air Station flies over into Alabama where I live. Don't know if they are the Angels or not though. I did get to see them up close when I went to one of their shows years ago and was fortunate enough to be on the tarmac as they did their show. Afterwards we got to get pictures with them. It was so cool!
Some of my coolest memories are being on the beach in Pensacola when the Blue Angels are flying practice runs over the beach! The crowd goes wild!
Now that sounds fun.
I think something is wrong with X.
Its weird. I use the website and it’s not working on either my phone or my tablet. However my husband uses the app and he says it’s working on his phone.
Maybe they are under attack but I can still see ,
It's been having issues all morning
Make sure your device’s software is up to date. Oftentimes apps wont work or won’t work well if the system isn’t updated.
https://nitter.poast.org/DanScavino/status/1926071572046979424
Video 59 seconds
u/#q59
Posted at 8:23 ET
u/#q823
I believe it was a Saudi prince that called Trump The President of the World.
Yes he did and the military I believe in Qatar saluted and he saluted back.
Yes, there is respectful and somethings different respectful. I was also caught by the foreign military saluting during our national anthem. And that every country was playing our national anthem.
There was a line of military members meeting him, saluting and shaking hands like when he does a commencement address at a service academy.
Note - when JD did the address at the Naval Academy graduation the other day they of course did not salute him - he is not in the chain of command. Only the President. A lot of people don't realize that.
I've been posting these videos by Dan the last few days (there's been a few of them) and hardly get any attention, so decided not to post this one yesterday when he posted it. Here's the other Fighter Jet videos Dan has posted over the last week, maybe someone can figure out what he's trying to tell us...
https://greatawakening.win/p/19BGK5a4zj/dan-scavino-posted-a-13-second-v/c/
https://greatawakening.win/p/19BGK6iTqh/dan-scavino-posted-2-videos-with/c/
https://greatawakening.win/p/19BGOjz5FN/dan-scavino-posts-yet-another-mi/c/
I always pay attention to your posts GDZ...you do great work fren! The problem I have is there are so many great posts here and not enough hours in the day! 😺
I tend to read everything posted lol.
Gone. Several threads have posted x links that are gone this morning.
If you hit refresh you can get it. X has been under stress attacks since RFK Jr's MAHA report was released.
🤔
I clicked the link and it loaded. X though, is having issues in general
Ok...thanks qa...do you think they are under attack?
It's possible. Israel seems to be kind of mad lately.
probably DDOS attacks - distributed denial-of-service.
A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a cyberattack where a target system is flooded with traffic from multiple sources, aiming to overwhelm its resources and make it unavailable to legitimate users.
X under attack I suppose!
All current Facebook post are deleted too. Only one 2024 and everything else is 2017-2021. 🤷♀️
What do you mean?
I follow Dan on FB and there are no current post showing. He usually post every other day. There is no 2025 post, one 2024 and all the rest are old post from 2017 to 2021. I just looked again before answering. Now even the post are categorized into 1 year, 2,3,4, etc. and not the actual posts.
ETA: The correct layout is back, but still no new post. ETA2: ….and it’s back to normal at 10:25 CST
Yeah it was having some issues.
What I was asking about was facebook. I didn't see any issues with new posts on FB.
No shortage of not especially helpful comms.
nice Dan find! and 8:23 —> 20:23 — keeping track of who the military will go after for the false Russia collusion treason
u/#q2023
Makes me wanna watch LA Speed Check again 😍
Sick reversal at 48 seconds! If you ain't following Dan, you ain't doing it right.