Is It Thunder?.....No It's a CF18

Sunday, September 06, 2009 05:30 AM

CF18 comes in for landing at Prince George Airport on Saturday afternoon, leaving everything else a blur.

Prince George, B.C.- If you were driving anywhere near the Prince George Airport yesterday afternoon, you might have heard what sounded like thunder around 2:00.

Nope, not thunder, and if your car started to shake you knew you only had to look up....... as a CF18 was coming in for a quick visit and refuelling stop.

Captain Craig Sharp stopped in to have lunch with his folks. Originally from Mackenzie, his family moved to Prince George when he was about 10.

Always a thrill to see, and hear these jets, and to wish the best of luck to it's pilot.

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Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 05:30 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: DPJ on September 6 2009 8:43 AM

Another refueling customer. Lets see the big jets come in to refuel to use the runway to the full extent.

Posted by: BCRacer on September 6 2009 9:19 AM

This is Canadian....they will stop...as for the yanks...well.....they may come if we offer free fuel!

Posted by: Palopu on September 6 2009 12:19 PM

Give me a break. He stopped here because his family was here. He probably didnt even need fuel.

Posted by: gus on September 6 2009 1:15 PM

expensive lunch ...

Posted by: Harbinger on September 6 2009 4:56 PM

He must have a lot of pull to get the keys to the plane just to drop by fer a visit. I wonder if he had to pay for his own fuel use?

Posted by: Bridget on September 6 2009 8:37 PM

Wow, my insides were rattling as the jet flew over my house. Loud but impressive.

Posted by: wrinkledawg on September 6 2009 9:14 PM

Totally freakin cool,
nice to see a local boy thats made good.

Posted by: SteveB on September 7 2009 2:26 PM

They keep a pretty tight leash on the flight plans for those guys. I'm sure they let him touch down on a point A to point B run that brought him close to PG.

I think for the yanks to stop you have to pay them money to take our free fuel. Thats how free trade works after all. And then they'd probably claim it was tainted and sue our country for millions in damage and stress.

Posted by: metalman on September 8 2009 9:34 AM

SteveB the Yanks would probably claim our fuel is unfairly subsidized, and they would know, because the United States of America would never ever subsidize any sector of her economy. I would have to believe that Captain Sharp's flight plan was such that he was permitted to stop in on his way by, so to speak. I am sure that there is quite a cost for extra fuel anyway, but it could also be looked at as good P.R. I think it says a lot for our armed forces, kinda brings it home to see one of our own cruise in on military time.
metalman.