Update On Events In Death Valley

[ski3pin]

A couple of sad news items. A man was found dead in Panamint Valley along Lake Hill Road -

Man Reported Missing, Found Dead

and a Navy F-18 crashed in the south end of Panamint Valley with the death of the pilot -

Super Hornet Crashes Near Trona

 

[Mighty Dodge Ram]

Sad news on both accounts. I think about those "18" pilots whenever they fly final over our house, returning from desert practice.

 

[Ted]

On many of our trips to Nevada and Death Valley we enjoy watching the jets out training. It is exciting and fun when they make a low level run several hundred feet over head. They have even acknowledged Mrs. Ted's wave with a wing wave back.

Not much info on what may have happened to the gentleman in DVNP. I hope he was doing what he enjoyed.

 

[Missing Link]

On many of our trips to Nevada and Death Valley we enjoy watching the jets out training. It is exciting and fun when they make a low level run several hundred feet over head. They have even acknowledged Mrs. Ted's wave with a wing wave back.

Not much info on what may have happened to the gentleman in DVNP. I hope he was doing what he enjoyed.

I do not wish to diminish the seriousness or sadness of this thread but to build on Mrs.Ted''s experience, we were camped on the east side many years ago and Mrs. Link trundled off into the bushes to relieve herself. Seconds later, in the full squat position she was startled by the roaring engines of a super low flying fighter jet and received a wing wave. She swears that she could see the pilot looking in her direction as he passed.

 

[ski3pin]

Another death in Death Valley -

Man Found Dead Near Zabriskie Point June 14, 2022

 

[teledork]

On many of our trips to Nevada and Death Valley we enjoy watching the jets out training. It is exciting and fun when they make a low level run several hundred feet over head. They have even acknowledged Mrs. Ted's wave with a wing wave back.

Not much info on what may have happened to the gentleman in DVNP. I hope he was doing what he enjoyed.

Friend was sunbathing nude in a campsite in Saline Valley. A jet was flying low and slow. She met the pilot later that evening in one of the hot pools because he shied away when she told her story.