OT: What I seen flying yesterday

[hews500d]

My house sits under a military training route plus a tanker track, so usually not many days go by without a Blackhawk helicopter, C-130, or the occasional fighter(s) (that you can tell is a fighter by the noise but it's so darn high you can't see). Usually once or twice per week a KC-135 or KC-10 will go thru while refueling a C-17, that is awesome to watch thru binoculars !

Anyway, I was outside yesterday and heard this "god-awful" roar suddenly, definitely nothing commercial, looked up to see this HUGE contrail behind some clouds and then out from behind them appears a B-52 !!! Haven't seen one of those fly thru here in years ! Yesterday was definitely an "active" day on the MTR, saw a KC-10, think I may have heard a couple more B-52's, by then it was too hazy and cloudy to see...

Now if the military would just make this a low level training route for the Buff's !

Darrell

[Tweek]

We get to see them over here at RIAT every year. Don't think I'll ever tire of seeing a B-52 flying past in full chat.

[stansdds]

Things are much quieter around here since the Virginia Air National Guard closed their base at Richmond International Airport and moved to Langley AFB.

About the only military aircraft I now see are Blackhawks. There is a restored T-28 Trojan hangared at my local airport, so on many weekends I hear it flying around.

[SabreAce]

I'm jealous - I've never seen a B-52 in flight, and I've always wanted to. Best I can hope for around here, military-wise, is the F-15s from Otis ANGB going past about once every four years.

[oakfloor]

Oh yeah! I saw them scramble from March AFB many times back in the day, the whole wing flying over one after the other.

[kilo delta]

The only thing I regularly see flying around these parts is my mother-in-law on her broomstick. :wiggle:

[Matt Wynn]

where i live here in the UK is under one of the routes the RAF and USAF use, so not many days pass where i don't see a Eurofighter or F-15...

[JimC1702]

When the B-52s were stationed at Griffis AFB in Rome, NY, we used to see them all the time flying up and down the Mohawk Valley.

Jim

[Matt Wynn]

The only thing I regularly see flying around these parts is my mother-in-law on her broomstick. :wiggle:

KD, you just made me lose a mouthful of my beer :icon_lol: that was priceless... :icon_lol: