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Sonic - sounding Military Jet just went over our suburb. It was house rattling kind of thing. It was low, nothing like what airplanes do. That has never happened here before and we have lived here a very long time. Everybody ran outside to look up. We saw neighbors were out.
Holy Crap!
Makes me very thankful NOT to be in a war zone.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Yes, itll rattle your windows all right.
When people flinched at the nearby bar, the old geezers would say, sound of freedom.
mysteryowl
(7,398 posts)Yeah, I can see a response like that, indeed.
There is a National Guard base about 45 min south of us, it must have come from there. We could hear it coming from a long ways off and could hear it for a long ways as it kept going. It must be a RUSH to fly something like that! Whew!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I was a heluva lot younger then, now it would drive me batty.
Terrified the dogs. They never seeme to get used to it.
Im like you, I used to think how terrifying it must be to be in a war zone with those guys deliberately trying to terrorize. Many in our neighborhood actually thought they were, but at least they werent dropping bombs!
They did accidentally drop their tow targets a few times.
mysteryowl
(7,398 posts)I know it ruins the fun you are having with "tow target", I want to have fun too. What is it?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Then the fighters shoot at it. (I assume its all computer scored, but I have no idea. It was a huge piece of some kind of fabric with a big target on it.
More than once when I lived down there, somehow they accidentally dropped the target. Once it fell near someones boat, another time in a trailer park. Caused all kinds of an uproar!
mysteryowl
(7,398 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Significant damage to property, but no one was hurt thank goodness.
Still it was amusing to those of us who were not all rah-rah on the Navy.
SharonAnn
(13,780 posts)Found out early the next morning, when the fighter jets took off, that there was no problem waking up. We laughed about that experience for years.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Captain Zero
(6,841 posts)In this cartoon
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)FakeNoose
(32,823 posts)Great flick, I haven't seen it in way too long.
rzemanfl
(29,573 posts)by flying a jet fighter down the street I lived on at the time. I had just moved there and hadn't a clue. Every soul in that little city would have denied it ever happened.
mysteryowl
(7,398 posts)rzemanfl
(29,573 posts)who his parents were, and how I never saw it.
mysteryowl
(7,398 posts)rzemanfl
(29,573 posts)nocoincidences
(2,231 posts)in Virginia Beach and the noise is deafening.
Lots of bumper stickers around here say: The Sound of Freedom because there is almost no place in the city you can avoid some kind of jet noise.
It's 9pm here and they routinely seem to be blowing out the engines around this time of day.
mysteryowl
(7,398 posts)Yet, what time of day would be good for that?
A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)you have to fly and land at night.
mysteryowl
(7,398 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)We lived within a few miles of Langley AFB for years, had pilots as neighbors. They had a habit of buzzing the wives at 6:30am & I mean LOW buzzes with F15s. I put up with it until my son was born, when I requested they stop. They did; they were actually nice folks, except for trashing Pres.Clinton.
Now we live under the flight path of Camp Perry. 2 nights ago a fair sized private jet came in around 2330 hrs when we were out walking our pups. It was loud and so low we could easily count the plane's windows. Naturally, we assumed it was brass flying in from DC & wondered what's up now.
Glad we don't have to hear that every night. My condolences.
Tech
(1,773 posts)brewens
(13,631 posts)where a couple holes are. We're just teeing off and two F-18's came screaming low right over us. It scared the crap out of us! No warning at all and they were right over us before we could even hear them! In that situation in a war, you wouldn't even have time to dive behind a rock if they were dropping bombs. It was quite a rush!
We did that every year for the airshow because the public course is right by the airport. See the show, golf and drink brewski's. It was a good time.
mysteryowl
(7,398 posts)You did not hear it until it was upon you. Wow. This jet tonight could be heard for a long ways off and a long ways as it went by. Different tactics I guess. I don't what kind of plane it was.
brewens
(13,631 posts)We didn't get much of a look at them from the hole we were in.
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Blue Owl
(50,529 posts)Sogo
(4,997 posts)Miramar Naval Air Base in San Diego. (Now it's a Marine base.)
The Blue Angels flew outta there.
It was a whole different level of loud when they were at it.....