WOW! Where did THAT Come From

[sunflower-n-ks]

And where was it going?

Was out in the tree line that runs along the pasture fence watering the geese. I hear this HUGE roar, took a bit to realize what it was, looked up just in time to see this WW11 bomber flying just above the trees. Sooo close, sooo loud. Flying so low, it was there and then gone so fast. I didn't even have time to get out from under the trees to really see it.

Flying straight west. ?? Usually anything military flies at a directional angle or straight south here. Maybe an air show somewhere?

[FarmboyBill]

I seldom see bombers, but there are air shows in Tulsa and OKC, and Im right in line with them thereabouts. I have several times seen flights of pursuit planes in formation 2 to 5. I once saw a squadron of WW 1 planes. maybe 6 of them. Took a LONG time to get across the sky. Worh looking at from beginning to end.

[foxtrapper]

Yea, WWII bombers fly for air shows, not for military service any longer.

[GrannyG]

Sometimes we have 5-6 helicopters coming over our house...love to see them...guess they are from Dyess AFB....love to see those planes flying...and always say prayers for the pilots...

[FarmboyBill]

Ill never have a love for helocopters. They take me back to where I dont wanna remember

[julieq]

We're close to Mountain Home AFB so we have military jets flying over all the time.

[highlands]

Cool! That's exciting. We get high flying military planes of all sorts but one year ago we had a very low flying, very big one go right over our house and I actually got a photo. See:

http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/2010/10...-overhead.html

Pays to have my camera in my pocket!

[tinknal]

I used to work on a ranch in Montana. The Bombers from the airbase in Great Falls used to do low level runs around the country side. Low enough that that they had to gain altitude to clear the hills. We would wave to them and they would wave back! The roar was incredible. One day I was swathing hay when one approached me from behind. The sound hit me as it was just overhead. I purtey near pooped my Levi's.....

[julieq]

Originally Posted by highlands

Cool! That's exciting. We get high flying military planes of all sorts but one year ago we had a very low flying, very big one go right over our house and I actually got a photo. See:

http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/2010/10...-overhead.html

Pays to have my camera in my pocket!

Kuhl photo! Our horses would have gone nuts if a plane that size came over at that low of an altitude.

[EDDIE BUCK]

Around here its these most everyday.They shake the ground to.

[sunflower-n-ks]

I am in a military flight pattern, so the current stuff, planes and choppers are not unusual at all. Both high flying and low flying. I even saw a chopper refueling from a plane one day. That was different. I was coming down the hill on the highway and realized there was something next to me. Huh? The plane and chopper were following the highway and at a low altitude putting them at just about the sane level I was on the hill, doing the refueling. Less than a mile I needed to turn to go home. Should have stayed on the highway to watch it longer.

Over a week or so, there was a stealth fighter that went over about the same time in the mornings. I only saw it once, but there is NO mistaking the sound they make. Very unique. They may stealth, but they don't sneak.

But those very old bombers are just not in the air that much, and when it was so low and right over head, wow

[Paquebot]

You probably saw the B-17 ALUMINUM OVERCAST. Her schedule has her in Liberal, KS on 25 and 26 October. She's one beautiful bird!

www.b17.org/faq

Martin

When I lived in Fargo there was an air show at the Fargo airport. I sat in the back yard and watched the Blue Angles perform, including pulling out right over the house. They were so low they were definantly in shotgun range. I expect they are not allowed to overfly a residential neighborhood anymore?

When I camp in Superior National Forest, NE of Duluth, I hear loud booms like a close lightning strike. It took awhile to figure out that the boys from the Duluth Air Guard were running their F14s over mach 1 and these were sonic booms. They are only supposed to do that over Lake Superior. I had not heard a sonic boom since the 1960s.

[quietstar]

Bill, I know what you mean about choppers. Sometimes I am outside working when I realize I'm tighting up and tense. About then is when I catch the first beat of chopper blades and know whats up. Choppers around Da'Nang were always in friendly hands, but they often foretold death and destruction on the wing...Glen

[sunflower-n-ks]

Paquebot - Thanks for the link. Yes, it surely was the B-17. It has been more than a few years since I went to air show (DS did a line of t shirts with WW1 and WW11 designs) and it was probably the B-17 that was at a lot of them. Huge setting on the ground, but, unexpected overhead.... I am just so glad I was outside to see it.

It would have been going in the direction of Liberal. At the speed it was going, it would have been well into the afternoon before it got there though.

[pookshollow]

We live a few miles from Hamilton Airport, where they have the Warplane Heritage Museum. Every now and then we have the Lancaster bomber flying overhead. Always a treat to see it.

Helicopters are either heading for the hospital or looking for marijuana . . .

[Cabin Fever]

I used to work in St. Paul, MN next to the downtown airport (Holman Field). Once a year there would be a warbird airshow at this airport (http://www.commemorativeairforce.org).

Restored WWII bombers and fighters would constantly fly low over my office trailer. I'd hear the unmistakeable sound of their engines and would rush outside each time one flew over to enjoy the sight and sound.

The only WWII plane I ever flew in was this PBY Catalina. The old plane actually had some patches on it that were made of old flattened coffee cans!

Here it is after our landing in Hudson's Bay, NWT, Canada


And here is the PBY at its airport in Churchill, Manitoba.

[akaRach]

Cool stories and great photos!

We have a lot of different air traffic around here too, low flying mostly looking for pot grows. But a neighbour has a pilot friend who occasionally stops in flying a helicopter.

[poorboy]

Before that turmoil over in ------- land they flew training missions nonstop daily, for months came over my house directly overhead several times daily.
the stealth's I had never seen before, directly over the house before hearing them, knew something was up when that level of activity occurred without prior history.

[BFFhiredman]

Ancient History Story:

I was a teen in the mid 60's and was plowing one spring. I heard / felt loud noise and vibrations and thought the old Ferguson 40 was about to die. I shut it off and realized there was huge flight of B-25's passing over. Must of been 100+. It took them quite a while to pass over. They were flying low. 3-4K feet, I'd guess. A few years later I was telling a co-worker who had served on B-25's during WWII about the planes and he told me the year and approximate date they had passed over. He was a real history buff and knew that a large group of B-25's were moved from a base in northern Michigan to an "airplane graveyard" someplace in west Texas. He said they were eventually scraped. I remember thinking what a sight it must have been for friend and foe to see the hundreds of B-17's and B-25's as they passed over during WWII.