Roman Lilligren captured the two F-15 fighter jets from the New Hampshire Air National Guard and a KC-46 Pegasus refueling plane over Harvard Square. They were in town to fly over Fenway Park for Opening Day.
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And if this had been a Patriots game
By roadman
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 2:28pm
they would have played it yesterday in spite of the predicted rain - which came and went well before the game was scheduled to start anyway - as several people predicted would happen two days ago.
It rained again later in the day
By Ron Newman
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 7:05pm
Perhaps the baseball game would have been over by then, but perhaps not. The Red Sox did know that today would be a much better day. On one of the radio stations, I heard that there is always an scheduled off-day after Opening Day in order to allow such a delay.
Hypesters
By Cut from the team
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 2:29pm
I am so glad our tax dollars and military personnel and equipment are used to promote private investments. Even if they paid for the promotional stunt, I don’t think MLB is much of an inspiration for the military. Individual players and teams and coaches perhaps.
# 2. Major League Baseball (MLB) — $10 Billion
Calm down, Hypesters..
By Bunly Goodness
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 6:23pm
Relax.. The military uses these opportunities to train junior pilots and to help them gain needed flight time to become skilled airmen. The airtime would happen whether there was a ball game or not. No extraneous expenditure of tax dollars with these.
Let them fly over somewhere else then.
By Lee
Sat, 04/03/2021 - 2:18pm
Don’t want to be the experiment of pilots in training.
Pilots are continuously
By brianjdamico
Sat, 04/03/2021 - 9:41pm
Pilots are continuously accruing flight time, it keeps them well trained. Every second you spend in flight on a commercial aircraft is counting towards that pilots flight hours. There's a big airport in Boston that has many of these aircraft coming and going every day.
Man, this argument is really missing the point
By fungwah
Sun, 04/04/2021 - 11:54am
"Well, we were going to burn this pile of money somewhere, so why not do it in the middle of downtown so it makes a big spectacle?"
Maybe the people complaining are pointing out that...maybe...we shouldn't be burning a huge pile of money on something with relatively no benefit to the American people at all?
Almost as bad as
By LarryW
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 8:26pm
Partnering with a company that kills its own workers
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/24/mark...
Where is OUR Air National Guard?
By Briancj
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 2:59pm
Why did we have to call in New Hampshire?
WCVB has the F-15 being from
By brianjdamico
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 3:16pm
WCVB has the F-15 being from our own 104th Fighter Wing out of Barnes, which is the only unit in the MA Air National Guard with fighters. If you want an F-35, and a refueling tanker, you have to look elsewhere.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/watch-it-again-openin...
Not very good MPG
By Ann
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 4:19pm
So they can’t make it from Westfield and back without refueling? Is there a hybrid version of the F-15 available?
The F-15C that the 104th FW
By brianjdamico
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 7:58pm
The F-15C that the 104th FW operates has a combat range of ~1200 miles, and much longer with external fuel tanks. So they could easily make the trip from KBAF to Fenway and back without refueling, but they didn't just make a quick round trip out and back. And if they did refuel, it was part of the training mission that incorporated a flyover of Fenway.
Refueling Jets
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 6:16pm
NH used to have several attached to Pease when it was a SAC base. My BIL serviced them when he was active duty.
...KC-46 Pegasus refueling plane...
By Rob
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 7:03pm
April 2nd and the Sox are already out of gas? Damn!
the real question is...
By Fenway Crank
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 8:39pm
how the heck did Roman get that shot!
Bravo!!!
I was out walking the dog
By WalkingTheDog
Sat, 04/03/2021 - 8:27pm
And I heard and saw them and wondered what the occasion was. Thanks for the update. Always awe inspiring to see them fly overhead, though never sure if that's good or frightening.
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