OBIO
August 8th, 2010, 13:24
Sometime between 3 and 3:30 pm Ohio time, I was heading down to the pond to do a little fishing. As I was heading across the meadow, I heard the sound of a jet aircraft coming my way..coming in from the south. At first I thought it was one of the smaller twin engine business type jets that fly around here a lot, but as the plane got closer I knew that wasn't the case.
What it turned out to be, to the best of my knowledge, was a KC135 or something of that size and shape. 4 turbofan engines in underwing nacelle pods. It wasn't a 747...wasn't that big.
But what surprised me was how LOW and SLOW this big bird was. It was down in the small GA air space....2 thousand, maybe 3000 feet. Down were I normally see Pipers and Cessnas and the Beechcraft V-Tail Bonanza flying. And I know that large planes look like they are flying slower than they actually are...but this bird was not in a hurry at all. Maybe 180 mph, maybe even less.
I wish I knew a way to look up air traffic coming through KMFD (Mansfield Lahm Regional) airspace between 3 and 3:30 pm this afternoon. Heading north, 4 engine jetliner type aircraft. BIG jetliner. Would be interesting to know exactly what the plane was, where it came from and where it was going.
There is a chance that it took off from KMFD on runway 14, then turned north. My house is 3 miles east of the end of runway 14..so that is a possibility.
OBIO
What it turned out to be, to the best of my knowledge, was a KC135 or something of that size and shape. 4 turbofan engines in underwing nacelle pods. It wasn't a 747...wasn't that big.
But what surprised me was how LOW and SLOW this big bird was. It was down in the small GA air space....2 thousand, maybe 3000 feet. Down were I normally see Pipers and Cessnas and the Beechcraft V-Tail Bonanza flying. And I know that large planes look like they are flying slower than they actually are...but this bird was not in a hurry at all. Maybe 180 mph, maybe even less.
I wish I knew a way to look up air traffic coming through KMFD (Mansfield Lahm Regional) airspace between 3 and 3:30 pm this afternoon. Heading north, 4 engine jetliner type aircraft. BIG jetliner. Would be interesting to know exactly what the plane was, where it came from and where it was going.
There is a chance that it took off from KMFD on runway 14, then turned north. My house is 3 miles east of the end of runway 14..so that is a possibility.
OBIO