Smoken D Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Just sat down on the puter and noticed a very loud noise that I recognized. Knew he was low, ran outside and he had just flown over my place headed East. Then he just did one heck of a "U" turn like I have never seen before. My dang camera hard to focus. [/url]">http://http://s383.photobucket.com/user/dradbrown/media/BATWING_zps30719b0b.png.html'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 THAT'S BATMAN!!! Cool experience, D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubborn Dutchman, SASS # 61363 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 "My dang camera hard to focus." It's kind of hard for a camera to focus on something it can't see. Nice shot any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 HIde! Look out for the Black Helicopters too. They're coming to get you!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 By the time you hear it..........too, too late. Boom! you've been vaporized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Balz, SASS#46599 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 "Are they friendly Spirits?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted May 15, 2014 Author Share Posted May 15, 2014 HIde! Look out for the Black Helicopters too. They're coming to get you!!! They fly by during night maneuvers eye level out my slider Live on a 150' bluff over the lake. "Are they friendly Spirits?" Think it was the Missouri Spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boulder Canyon Bob# 32052L Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Very cool. I live about 15 miles as the B1 bomber flies from Ellsworth Air Force base. They frequently fly over our house and my wife and I run out and watch them. Very imprssive. One day as I was traveling on I90 near the base they were doing "touch and goes" the pilot would turn and run parallel to the freeway very low and then floor it. The first time I thought my truck was going to fall apart. I stopped and watched him do it a couple more times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Are they as loud as the [sadly] now-retired F-117? One of those flew over many years ago, and I was fairly astonished at the noise. They might've been hard to see, but you could sure hear 'em! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Are they as loud as the [sadly] now-retired F-117? One of those flew over many years ago, and I was fairly astonished at the noise. They might've been hard to see, but you could sure hear 'em! I thought the same thing when I heard one. I live under the landing pattern at Wright-Patterson AFB. We usually get C-17s, C-5s and C-130s coming in. On occasion we get something more fun, such as an F-15 or two or a couple of A-10s. I remember my astonishment a few years back when I saw a B-52 come in. I remember my heart sinking when I've seen the E-4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Speaking of Elsworth's "Bones" (B-1 = B-one, hence "bone"). Over in Afganistan they have been known to make runs over enemy personnel without dropping ordnance (preserving it for further use). Those runs apparently have been known to produce the "runs" among those over whom they fly supersonically! As for the B-2 Spirits, they are part of the 509th Bomb Wing. In case the number of the unit sounds familiar, they trace their heritage to the 509th Composite Group, to which the Enola Gay and Bock' Car belonged. B-2's are "dual capable", B-1's are not. Funny thing...last night TCM was playing "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart and June Allison. On AMC they were playing "The Joe McConnell Story" staring Alan Ladd and...June Allison! That gal sure was type-cast as a pilot's wife. Jimmy Stewart's character was ficticious, though he was an actual flying hero during WWII. OTOH, Joe McConnell was America's Korean War triple ace. Sadly, he survived both WWII and Korea only to augur in in an experimental F-86H he was testing at Edwards AFB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted May 15, 2014 Author Share Posted May 15, 2014 Are they as loud as the [sadly] now-retired [/url]">http://http://s383.photobucket.com/user/dradbrown/media/509thProject2_zps0058a8b3.jpg.html'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted May 15, 2014 Author Share Posted May 15, 2014 Here is a photo of it lit up [/url]">http://http://s383.photobucket.com/user/dradbrown/media/509thProject001_zps59b32ed7.jpg.html'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger #3720LR Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Hardpan, here's a photo I personal took. 117Fs over my place a few years back. I happen to live under approach to Palmdale's Plant 42. And just outside the Edward's flight test center. I see all sorts of strange things. BUT the B-2 has only flown overhead here at night. I know it's sound and it's silhouette so I know when to go outside and look, hoping for a glimpse. Usually the B-2 arrives with a noisy masking escort aircraft or two. They very from time to time but they are the noisy ones in are arsenal. The B-2s come in with no lights on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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