David from Kansas
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All afternoon. Not unusual as there is a bombing range about 30 miles from here. Sometimes they go right over our house. Interesting how they almost disappear when going away from you.
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Dave in GA
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Have you seen any drones watching you?
David from Kansas
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No, but when that thing is coming directly at me I'm wondering how many pics it is taking. They fly really low. Well, it looks low, anyway.
David, I hear you. I live within 25 miles of a military base. They have coppers. I"m not so found of them flying low. I"ve often wondered if there are any aviation laws about low flight. Thy get right down on the deck once in a while. Flying low late at night is a bunch of bull. Not like they don’t have their own land to fly over.
Aaron SEIA
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I was driving east on 70 one night and saw this light. Bet it was 10 minutes or so. Kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally saw one of those things on the dark side of the bulb. Gave me chills all night. Wish I were someplace where I could complain about the military buzzing me. I get a Blackhawk flyover every once in a while and have had a couple of those huge 2 rotor choppers fly over. Used to see some Huey's when I was a kid.
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LeonardWD45
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My house is in the glide path for McChord Field. I have C-17's, C-5's, KC-135/10's, and USN aircraft flying over all the time, day and night. The Navy jets are the loudest with their unmuffled exhaust.
Just the sound of freedom to me.
Leonard
Just the sound of freedom to me.
Leonard
GeneMO
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I am about 30 miles, as the buzzard flys, from Whiteman, their base. I still enjoy watching them, but they are pretty common place.
But these drones are something different. I walk around on the farm giving a "finger" to the sky, just hoping some politician is watching.
Gene
But these drones are something different. I walk around on the farm giving a "finger" to the sky, just hoping some politician is watching.
Gene
Larry Wallace
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If you are in Kansas then you must be talking about Smoky Hill Bomb Range SW of Salina. Cool place. I wouldn't be too concerned about any of those B-2's taking pictures of you. They are pretty busy inside of the plane setting them selves up for the next "bomb run". It's all about training not spying.
They are from Whiteman AFB, Knob Noster MO. When the pilots are not flying in the B-2 they are flying the T-38 Talon which is a high speed trainer aircraft.
Years ago I was driving back from Salina along K-4 highway and noticed an A-10 Warthog flying along side of me. Seconds later his partner came into view flying away, above, and in front of me. They were from Richards Gebaur (sp) KC, MO., which is now closed down, and had been training at Smoky Hill. Those A-10's raised the hair on the back of my neck when I realized that had I been a target....... A twenty millimeter, or is it thirty?, gatlin gun is a very good weapon to have on your side. Just ask Al Qaida.
If you see one A-10, look around as there is usually another close by.
LW
They are from Whiteman AFB, Knob Noster MO. When the pilots are not flying in the B-2 they are flying the T-38 Talon which is a high speed trainer aircraft.
Years ago I was driving back from Salina along K-4 highway and noticed an A-10 Warthog flying along side of me. Seconds later his partner came into view flying away, above, and in front of me. They were from Richards Gebaur (sp) KC, MO., which is now closed down, and had been training at Smoky Hill. Those A-10's raised the hair on the back of my neck when I realized that had I been a target....... A twenty millimeter, or is it thirty?, gatlin gun is a very good weapon to have on your side. Just ask Al Qaida.
If you see one A-10, look around as there is usually another close by.
LW
farmer boy
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I live about 12 miles from a tank range. Not really much action from it, but not having lived around a base before this, it's very different. #1- Alot of tanks, LAV's and all green crew cab pickups driving around everywhere. #2 Every few months they do some bombing. Can't feel much from here, but get any closer and things vibrate and get loud. Not sure how the town 4 miles away deals with it. #3 Really bright light that I can easily see from here that does not coincide with the bombing. #4 They had a big training exercise last September, soliders posted all over the place with rifles, sleeping in the ditches over night, standing in front of traffic and getting out of the way at the lest second. On the bright side, I feel pretty safe.
Richard from SE AZ
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WE live 100 miles South of Davis Monthan AFB which is IN Tucson and 70 miles East of Ft Huachuca. Davis Monthan has a bunch of A-10s stationed there and they fly in and out of Ft Huachuca. The A-10s practice dog fights over our valley, something I was not aware they did. Kinda neat to watch them chase each other around and shoot off flares. They occasionally fly really low , sometimes over our house. My grandson was flashing them with a mirror one day and they must have seen it cuz they both flew side by side over our house really low and turned canopy to canopy as they flew by. What a thrill!!!
David from Kansas
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We see the A-10s occasionally and when near enough to the bombing range can hear those guns firing. First time I heard it years ago I couldn't figure out what it was until I saw the A-10s then put two and two together. Was a really weird sound.
About 5 years ago a plane, some type of fighter, accidently dropped a practice bomb in my son's pasure and started a fire. He lives only a few miles from Smoky Hill Range.
About 5 years ago a plane, some type of fighter, accidently dropped a practice bomb in my son's pasure and started a fire. He lives only a few miles from Smoky Hill Range.
I live near Ft Drum. We get lots and lots of aircraft flying low over us. Way I look at it, if flying low over my place during training helps save one American life or keeps someone from getting wounded or helps the boys learn how to kill the enemy better, then by God, fly as low as you want as often as you want boys!
God Bless America and Semper Fi!
God Bless America and Semper Fi!
BANDITFARMER
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A mile from me the local BTO has an airstrip and owns a AT-6 Texan trainer and other smaller aircraft. He is friends with the war bird museum in Batavia Ohio and several times a year them fly in and out of his place and play around in the skies above use. You haven't lived till your house has been rattled by a P-47 ThunderBolt! 15 yeas ago I heard a roar coming from our woods and looked to see 2 C-130s pop up just above tree tops (with green debree fling) and drop back down to 30 feet hugging the ground. They were so close the pilot was waving and the crew standing in the side door (witch was open as well as the tail ramp) were waving and you see there faces plane as day! The dogs and cows went NUTS! Whats life without some excitement! Bandit
smallercrawler
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Several years ago was walking my dogs about sunrise on the banks of a river at the base of a dam. Really enjoying the peace and tranquility, communing with nature. Next thing I experience are 4 F15s on the deck, out of the sun, making a mock run on the dam. They then went full burner, pulled up, two split right and two split left and disappeared. Really sends a chill down your spine. Even my deaf dog felt the concussion from their passing.
In the 80's I was working on the Ford test track at mile 18 of Alligator Alley in the everglades and there was a bomb range north of us and the fighter bombers would roll upside down over us at about 100 feet and wave as they went by. Exciting. Also, when living in NC north of Marietta GA we would hear and see the F-22's being test flown about 300 feet above the mountains. Strangest noise I ever heard ffrom an aircraft.
David from Kansas
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Almost straight west. South of Ellsworth.
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