2005 09 13 Spotting at KNGU

Today we were gonna check out Langley AFB, home of the 1ste Fighter Wing, flying the F-15 and F-22. After a short stop at the harbour of Norfolk where we saw some aircraft carriers and a submarine we headed to Langley.
In the morning there was zero activity. Shortly in the afternoon we saw two F-15's and three F-22's preparing for take-off. But, this was to be expected, we first had a control from the MP to see what we were doing there. Although it wasn't her intention to help us but we found out that all of these jets were leaving Langley because they feared the incoming hurricane Ophelia. As soon as we heared that we weren't gonna get one descent shot of the Eagles or the Raptors we setted off to NAS Norfolk. While we departed another six Eagles left there nest.
After we found a nice spot in the small civilian part of the base, we saw an E-2C landing and there was a C-2 Greyhound performing some touch and goes. After several rounds the C-2 landed and we wanted to leave. By the time we were at our car, we were already blocked by two vehicules of the MP. They asked us to show us our ID and what we were doing here. After they checked ours ID we were free to go.

Atlhough we didn't made a lot of pictures, it was still a nice day.

E-2C  US Navy  serial unknown
C-2A Greyhound  US Navy  162159

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