Midafternoon miscellany, installment #1: Fly-by; road-work news

FIRST NOTE: We guessed wrong when we speculated about the source of the jets some saw/heard earlier today — turns out it was a Boeing F22 stealth-fighter arrival. Here’s video and info on the KING5 site. Seems they were en route to a Museum of Flight ceremony; the MoF is celebrating Boeing Field’s 80th anniversary later this month AND of course a week after that, it’s Blue Angels mania (see you there?).

SECOND NOTE: Road work just announced for Highland Park this weekend. Note from SDOT:

SDOT crews will repair the concrete pavement on SW Holden Street between 11th Avenue Southwest and Highland Parkway SW in Southwest Seattle. A detour will be in place for all traffic starting at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 19. By no later than 5 p.m. the same day the traffic will be reopened to eastbound traffic. By noon on Sunday, July 20, the street will be opened to westbound traffic. The street will remain open to pedestrians throughout the project.

6 Replies to "Midafternoon miscellany, installment #1: Fly-by; road-work news"

  • mike July 17, 2008 (5:54 pm)

    the f22s are parked across from the museum of flight and will leave tomorrow afternoon.

  • WSB July 17, 2008 (6:08 pm)

    thank you – is it the spot where the Blue Angels usually park? if so I may just go over and be a cool-plane geek in the morning before the day starts getting nuts. am also busy asking the Museum of Flight to please put us on their media list.

  • mike July 17, 2008 (7:38 pm)

    yeah it is the same spot, I don’t think its visiting for the museum of flight. I just stumbled onto these which are probably better than any of us will get.

    http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=5931727

  • Eddie July 17, 2008 (8:48 pm)

    F-22 Raptor is a Lockheed product. Boeing builds the aft fuselage and wing sections for it across the street at the Developmental Center. Boeing also does a lot of the avionics work – using that funny looking 757 that is always parked north south right at the south end of Boeing Field.

  • WSB July 17, 2008 (10:56 pm)

    One of the reports I read mentioned there was to be some sort of ceremony at the Museum of Flight. Thanks for the insights, all ye aviation experts …

  • GenHillOne July 18, 2008 (7:43 pm)

    Wrong on your Twitter Thunderbirds speculation??? If you’re including those, then nope, you were right…we saw them when driving northbound on I-5 but I don’t know if they came this far up. Super cool show for my passengers (and when I was brave enough to look up)!

    http://events.airforce.com/details.htm?event_id=3728

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