F-15 Eagle's at Barnes (KBAF) - June 17th, 2015

 

Spotting some F-15 Eagle's of the 104th Fighter Wing at Barnes Regional Airport at Westfield, MA on June 17th, 2015. Also in this video you will see the first flight of two on the Alert Scramble departure where they start rolling with no delay in full afterburner and immediately break away from the airport traffic pattern. An Alert Scramble departure is when they are dispatched and cleared for an immediate takeoff to intercept an aircraft that has entered a restricted zone, but in this case I believe it was a training flight only. The remainder F-15's departing from right to left were on their normal daily ops routine. Note: Sorry for the slight shakiness in the video while the F-15's were taxiing by. I was actually trying to wave to the pilots. Unfortunately I could not stick around this time to watch them return for landing as I had to get to work, but I certainly got lucky with timing to catch that massive departure.