Must be a Memorial day air show around here somewhere.. A couple of what looked like CH-47's passed over my yard nice and low.twice today. Once heading southeast and a few hours later heading the opposite way. I forget how damned LOUD those things are. You don't just hear them, you FEEL them. I thought they were going to shake the roof off the place. Nice stuff. I wish they'd come by more often.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
There's an ANG post right across the freeway from where I work, and the squadron regularly trains in the Chinook. We see them flying low and slow all the time.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
We have an ANG post about 8 miles from here. Chinooks happen a couple times a week. every so often we see blackhawks and once I was surprised to see a couple Cobras.
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some people are like slinkys, not really good for anything, but still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
Lots of Navy and Marine chopper traffic around these parts, I see some big ol' honkin' heli pretty much every day. The Osprey is beginning to show up now and then as well. Those are rather bizarre craft.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Around here we don;t get much in the way of interesting air traffic. Mostly just commercial and business air traffic and occasionally police operations.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Ive not heard a helicopter as loud as the Sky Crane that flew low and directly over my house a number of years ago....i thought the place was going to come down!
The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
I live under Wright-Patterson's NE landing vector. I see all kinds of aircraft every day. I don't even pay attention to it any more. I did hear engines i am not familiar with. Went outside, it was 3 B-29's. One does not see that everyday.
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"Sadly, it always takes a few martyrs to get the ball rolling." Colonel Tim Boldman 2001
"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."--William James
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Whoa! No, one does not.
I cant tell you how enamoured i am with the rumble of radial engines. The song of another era right there. Seeing only ONE B-29 would be cool...but 3? Awesome!
The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
Yeah! I remember watching a guy in a T-6 Texan doing aerobatics at an airshow once. Compared to the guy in the Pitts Special who preceded him, it was pretty mundane stuff but the sound was fabulous.Originally Posted by N7YA
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All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
There is a fly-in of B-29's every year at The Air Force Museum. They had one cut open that people can walk through. If you ever come to Dayton, you MUST allow at least 2 days. Admission is free!
I was in the crowd when the SR-71 Blackbird landed. They have several Air Force 1 crafts that you can walk through. Unfortunately, they lost the bid for a space shuttle.
They do have an example of about every aircraft ever made. Go to the website. Take the virtual tour. One could spend a month on their website.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/index.asp
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cul de n8tb
"Sadly, it always takes a few martyrs to get the ball rolling." Colonel Tim Boldman 2001
"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."--William James
"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." Victor J. Stenger
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