Racinbob 11,044 #1 Posted October 11, 2019 Every weekend that Notre Dame has a home game one of the things we look forward to is the low flying military aircraft coming over the house. I don't know if it's practice runs or they are just putting on a show for the locals but it's cool. This week it was two large prop planes, maybe cargo? I couldn't manage to get both of them in one picture but the two of them were close. It never fails to send chills down my spine. Even more so when the fighter jets go over. Their speed and noise combined with the low altitude rattle the entire house. These big guys seemed to fly so slow that I could keep up with them on my Wheel Horse. 9 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adsm08 2,022 #2 Posted October 11, 2019 C-130 Hercules. I don't know what's been up with them lately, but I've seen a lot of C-130s going low and slow lately. A few months ago I saw one far off and I was sure it was a blimp because it looked like it was barely moving. As I got closer to the airport though I could see it was just doing circles at what has to be close to minimum airspeed. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,981 #3 Posted October 11, 2019 We get RAF planes over every so often. Mainly fighter jets on practice/training flights. Sometimes if there's an exercise on the Hercules. They come over that low at times, you can see the pilots. About 20 yrs back, during a big exercise, six chinooks came over together at 1-30 am. The noise was deafening. I reckon no-one was asleep between Carlisle and the Solway coast. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dclarke 4,032 #4 Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) Last week one day these three bi planes flew over our house. They were all painted yellow and we’re flying pretty slow too. Edited October 11, 2019 by dclarke 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adsm08 2,022 #5 Posted October 11, 2019 A few years ago I was sitting in the living room and the front window started shaking and a noise that sounded like thunder. I looked outside and there was a flight of two Blackhawks and five or six Apaches heading roughly along a line that would head from Indian Town Gap towards the area of the Maryland/Virgina military bases. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 48,781 #6 Posted October 11, 2019 2 hours ago, Racinbob said: if it's practice runs Probably is Bob. They used to fly low & slow like that through my area and what they where doing was practicing using the Fox River and other land marks for aids to navigation in case other nav aids did not work. Mostly C-130's and A-10's. My house is very close to air routes from Milwaukee/Chicago to Minneapolis/St. Paul. We also had an military air base 100 miles away they used. Haven't seen them in quite awhile so guessing they stopped doing it for one reason or another. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edgro 677 #7 Posted October 11, 2019 Had a couple A10's fly over low on 9/11 for memorial at capital, pretty cool Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adsm08 2,022 #8 Posted October 11, 2019 3 hours ago, edgro said: Had a couple A10's fly over low on 9/11 for memorial at capital, pretty cool All out air traffic near me for weeks after 9/11 was A-10s. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
