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For you folks living in the central region of NC along the I-40 corridor and up towards the Blue Ridge Parkway, when the weather starts deteriorating tonight, you may hear some F-15E Strike Eagles fly over at low altitude.

They like to train during ice storms. I've heard and seen them on several occasions during bad weather, especially ice storms, in the past.
 
Qball said:
For you folks living in the central region of NC along the I-40 corridor and up towards the Blue Ridge Parkway, when the weather starts deteriorating tonight, you may hear some F-15E Strike Eagles fly over at low altitude.

They like to train during ice storms. I've heard and seen them on several occasions during bad weather, especially ice storms, in the past.
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Is that a really good practice?? I mean flying fast assed planes in ice storms?? Seems not too bright to me.. but what do I know, I'm going out streaking tonite......
 
Bailey Boat said:
Is that a really good practice?? I mean flying fast assed planes in ice storms?? Seems not too bright to me.. but what do I know, I'm going out streaking tonite......
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For them it is. Those are all-weather interdiction fighter bombers. All-weather means any weather.
 
The sound you hear will be the sound of FREEDOM!!!

I had a couple 15s from Seymour break the sound barrier over my hunting spot a few years ago. Never even saw em.

Here's an F-18 getting struck by lightning. Pretty sure that puckered up the ol butthole.

 
Back when I was active in the BSA with my son's troop, almost every time we went to Camp Raven Knob a couple of F15s would make a pass low over the Knob during the week. Rumor was they used the lake as a nav point cause of it's unique shape.
 
Dave951 said:
Back when I was active in the BSA with my son's troop, almost every time we went to Camp Raven Knob a couple of F15s would make a pass low over the Knob during the week. Rumor was they used the lake as a nav point cause of it's unique shape.
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I live right out of Mt Airy, its a military training route... I see all kinds of stuff coming through there. House was shaking about 10 pm one night , I knew it wasn't AirCare... Took my PVS14 outside....4-5 blacked out (Nightstalkers, I assume) Blackhawks. 300 ft off the deck. Pretty awesome.
 
Sneakymedic said:
I live right out of Mt Airy, its a military training route... I see all kinds of stuff coming through there. House was shaking about 10 pm one night , I knew it wasn't AirCare... Took my PVS14 outside....4-5 blacked out (Nightstalkers, I assume) Blackhawks. 300 ft off the deck. Pretty awesome.
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Here's an interesting story I have to tell regarding Mt. Airy. One night, back in Aug. of 1994, my wife and I spontaneously decided to take a trip down to Myrtle Beach with our daughter who was 5 months old at the time. It was around 9pm or so and we had no reservations or anything planned out ahead of time.

So he we were traveling down 220, we were coming from High Point, and somewhere between Asheboro and Ellerbe, my wife and I heard this strange humming noise. Something catches my attention out the window to my left. I look up and see this strange formation of lights in the sky. It was already dark by this time. I pulled off to the side of the road and got out to get a better look. At first I was startled beyond belief. It looked like a gigantic boomerang shaped aircraft or some kind of craft flying over. Just a huge boomerang shaped craft is the only way I could describe it.

Well, after it passed out of sight, we got back in the car and continued on our way. When we got to Rockingham, my wife said she wanted an ice cream cone, so we stopped at a Dairy Queen or something similar right there on 74. While I was standing in line, I heard a distinct sound and immediately knew what I was hearing. There was a whole bunch of A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft doing touch and goes at the nearby Richmond County Airport. Why they were down in Rockingham practicing maneuvers at that hour was beyond me. That squadron had already moved out of Myrtle Beach a few years before and relocated up north somewhere.

Those aircraft have the same GE turbofan engines that the Navy's S-3 Viking carries and is a smaller version of the turbofans that used to be equipped on the C-5 Galaxy. At high altitudes, they don't even sound like jet engines. They sound more like a muffled vacuum sweeper just humming along.

When we got a motel room in Myrtle Beach, and started unpacking, I flipped on the television just in time to see a repeat of the local 11 o'clock news. They were interviewing several of these witnesses who lived in Mt. Airy about this huge boomerang shaped UFO that they saw flying over from the northwest to the southeast. After sitting there thinking about the approximate time we had our sighting on 220 and hearing the approximate time these witnesses reported seeing what they saw, and then thinking about the approximate cruising speed of an A-10, it was obvious that what they saw in Mt. Airy was the same formation of A-10s we saw down on Hwy 220.

I laughed and thought about calling the news station and explaining the deal, but it was late and we were tired with a 5 month old so I left it alone and decided not to spoil it for those folks. Lol.
 
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Qball said:
Here's an interesting story I have to tell regarding Mt. Airy. One night, back in Aug. of 1994, my wife and I spontaneously decided to take a trip down to Myrtle Beach with our daughter who was 5 months old at the time. It was around 9pm or so and we had no reservations or anything planned out ahead of time.

So he we were traveling down 220, we were coming from High Point, and somewhere between Asheboro and Ellerbe, my wife and I heard this strange humming noise. Something catches my attention out the window to my left. I look up and see this strange formation of lights in the sky. It was already dark by this time. I pulled off to the side of the road and got out to get a better look. At first I was startled beyond belief. It looked like a gigantic boomerang shaped aircraft or some kind of craft flying over. Just a huge boomerang shaped craft is the only way I could describe it.

Well, after it passed out of sight, we got back in the car and continued on our way. When we got to Rockingham, my wife said she wanted an ice cream cone, so we stopped at a Dairy Queen or something similar right there on 74. While I was standing in line, I heard a distinct sound and immediately knew what I was hearing. There was a whole bunch of A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft doing touch and goes at the nearby Richmond County Airport. Why they were down in Rockingham practicing maneuvers at that hour was beyond me. That squadron had already moved out of Myrtle Beach a few years before and relocated up north somewhere.

Those aircraft have the same GE turbofan engines that the Navy's S-3 Viking carries and is a smaller version of the turbofans that used to be equipped on the C-5 Galaxy. At high altitudes, they don't even sound like jet engines. They sound more like a muffled vacuum sweeper just humming along.

When we got a motel room in Myrtle Beach, and started unpacking, I flipped on the television just in time to see a repeat of the local 11 o'clock news. They were interviewing several of these witnesses who lived in Mt. Airy about this huge boomerang shaped UFO that they saw flying over from the northwest to the southeast. After sitting there thinking about the approximate time we had our sighting on 220 and hearing the approximate time these witnesses reported seeing what they saw, and then thinking about the approximate cruising speed of an A-10, it was obvious that what they saw in Mt. Airy was the same formation of A-10s we saw down on Hwy 220.

I laughed and thought about calling the news station and explaining the deal, but it was late and we were tired with a 5 month old so I left it alone and decided not to spoil it for those folks. Lol.
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you shut yer mouf, we have bigfoot here too.
 
One of the coolest, yet kind of scary things, moments I've had was 4-5 big black jets. Now I say big I'm talking freaking huge one day out of nowhere they fly over Mooresville. They were so damn low that they disappeared behind so 50ft pine trees at the top of a smal hill. I'm gonna say at most 3-500ft off the ground all following each other by 100-200 yards.

At first I was like WTF then I was all dang that's cool then I was all WTF grabbing my phone to make sure nothing was going on. Again these were big big jet planes with at leas three engines each side.
 
Cowboy said:
One of the coolest, yet kind of scary things, moments I've had was 4-5 big black jets. Now I say big I'm talking freaking huge one day out of nowhere they fly over Mooresville. They were so damn low that they disappeared behind so 50ft pine trees at the top of a smal hill. I'm gonna say at most 3-500ft off the ground all following each other by 100-200 yards.

At first I was like WTF then I was all dang that's cool then I was all WTF grabbing my phone to make sure nothing was going on. Again these were big big jet planes with at leas three engines each side.
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The Air National Guard used to have at least one B-1 stationed at the ANG base at Charlotte Douglas. Maybe you saw a few of those flying over real low. They aren't small, especially when their wings are not swept. They have two engines under each wing very close to the fuselage. But the noise level even without afterburner at low altitude would be extremely loud if they were flying directly overhead.

I'd say more than likely you saw a formation of C-17 military cargo jets flying in formation. They too are now based at the ANG at Charlotte Douglas International. The only thing that doesn't match is the color of the aircraft you witnessed. C-17's aren't black. Actually, with the exception of Vietnam era B-52s and the SR-71, I can't think of any very large modern military aircraft that are black.

However, when looking up at the bottom of a dark gray military aircraft against a bright overcast sky, they may very easily look like they are black. But who knows. There are strange things flying around out there for sure.
 
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The Air National Guard used to have at least one B-1 stationed at the ANG base at Charlotte Douglas. Maybe you saw a few of those flying over real low. They aren't small, especially when their wings are not swept. They have two engines under each wing very close to the fuselage. But the noise level even without afterburner at low altitude would be extremely loud if they were flying directly overhead.

I'd say more than likely you saw a formation of C-17 military cargo jets flying in formation. They too are now based at the ANG at Charlotte Douglas International. The only thing that doesn't match is the color of the aircraft you witnessed. C-17's aren't black. Actually, with the exception of Vietnam era B-52s and the SR-71, I can't think of any very large modern military aircraft that are black.

However, when looking up at the bottom of a dark gray military aircraft against a bright overcast sky, they may very easily look like they are black. But who knows. There are strange things flying around out there for sure.
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These were cargo and were black as can be. Heck the flew right over my head then did a hard bank to the left. What confused me the most was the color.
 
I had a client the other day and I noticed and emblem he was wearing. I asked, do you fly? He said, yes, he a pilot. I asked commercial or military. He said military. He was a C5 pilot. When I mentioned that my brother in law was a cargo loadmaster on a C5, he asked if he was based out of California or Delaware. (The two primary bases for C5's.) After I told him, I asked where he was based out of. He looked at me and said, The Pentagon. :rolleyes:
Large cargo transports will fly low speed nap of the earth to avoid detection. High speed fighters have a hard time seeing them.
 
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