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The big Bat was overhead yesterday PIC
William81
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We live about 45 miles from Whiteman Air Force Base so we hear these overhead from time to time...Very distinct rumble as they get near. I could hear this one for a while before it popped out of the clouds for a couple quick pics...
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The Marines are doing touch and goes here in Wilmington in their F18's. I just watched one go vertical in a hurry till it was out of sight.
We are in the flight path from Whiteman. I love seeing the helos and the C's flyover. I'm thinking that the Stealth isn't low enough at my place to see it on its way in or out.
#1 started experiencing migraines when she moved up here. We tease her, saying a tracking beacon has been activated. When the black ships fly over they ping and prompt the migraine.
Late husband was MI with a TS/SCI clearance. We joke that we are all chipped so they can keep track of us.
I grew up near Amarillo Air Base (before LBJ moved the BUFF's north) and would often see them down low.
Knew Vietnam was ramping up when they started showing up in camo.
I was driving down I-65 where it goes by Louisville airport one day and a C-5A took off over me.
It may not have been that low but I sure thought I was gonna be inhaled!!
Before the COVIDs I worked on base and had F22s buzzing around all the time. Now I work from home up on the side of the mountain and the departure south to the MOA is supposed to go around us, but lots of times it’s right over us. It’s really neat during Red Flag to hear the different airframes coming back to the roost, pairs of fighters from different countries going over. You can distinguish them all by the sound.
Less than 2 miles from runways at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in NC. Live under the flight path . Think I have seen everything in inventory at least once
Sweet. I only saw once on Guam
Freedom flyin'
A waste of money & technology.
Am I the only one who remembers the 9/11 attack, when NORAD couldn't get so much as a Piper Cub in the air?
Neal
Neal, I was on duty that day and the skies were empty because we made them that way.
Civil aviation was stopped for a purpose.
I used to drive from my office to my main machine&tool shop about 50 miles away a few times/week. I would go by the old Indy airport and it seemed weird not to have any aircraft in the sky. My guess is that this was done so if radar anywhere detected a plane, a fighter would intercept. They couldn't do that if there were 3K civilian aircraft in the sky. I sure hope that this won't be necessary again.
Knew what the heading meant right off somehow. B-2.
I am thinking the crack about NORAD on 9/11 had to do with the fact that there were not any assets armed up ready to engage at the time this happened.
As I recall, the closest responding fighter aircraft to flight 93 were preparred to actually ram the commercial jet if necessary because they had no weapons on board.