We are an air refueling unit, but they have these little dart-shaped planes like the T-38 as well. Not sure why we have them (maybe so we have planes to fly to help train the fueling unit?), but I know they're part of the local operation. They talked about them on a tour I took of the base a while back, but I can't remember for certain what the plane was called. Plus I see them flying around nearly every day. Some of those pilots like to open up the throttle on the way up and it makes a nice sound. And by nice I mean really, really loud.
To my knowledge (being ANG - no not in nebraska), Nebraska doesn't have T-38s only the KC-135. The T-38 are used to train fighter pilots to assist with getting used to pulling high g's (major reason that NASA uses them as well). Granted, i haven't been there in a long while but the unit in Lincoln has no purpose for T-38s. They had to have come from out of state. The story about them coming from Texas makes since because our largest T-38 training unit is based in San Antonio with a few squadrons scattered around.
I can promise you we have similar planes here in Lincoln. I see them probably four days out of every week, minimum. They're not flying here from somewhere else, like the 747s and AWACs that come here from Omaha to use the runway for touch-and-goes. These planes I'm talking about are stationed here.
The fly-by planes for tomorrow are not the planes I'm talking about, which jives with the guy saying they're his cousin and wingman. These are different planes than what we fly, and definitely a different paint job. Ours are similar in shape, maybe a little smaller, and have a darker, solid paint job. Ours are similar in shape to the "MIGs" from
Top Gun, if that helps.
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