3 apaches just flew by my house

[timmy 0]

at the beach (florida pan handle) ive seen some f18 flying over the water, and often they break the sound barrier, and you here a loud boom.

[theavonlady 2]

Over a year ago, my husband and kids went on a 4x4 trip that took them through a vast firing range in Israel's Negev. No live training was being done in the range at the time. However, there was an area where several Apaches and Super Cobras were training. They did a lot of very low flybys and waiving the crafts over the jeep group's heads.

[Guest]

I once saw a real Trabant.

[rpc007 0]

you want noise? try an SR71 blackbird screeching over your house....

[PHY_Hawkeye 0]

When President Clinton Visited Belfast I saw a convoy of about 20-30 HELO's, Black Hawks and 'Nooks flying over our house at about 100ft. Now that was noisy.

[theavonlady 2]

Blackhawks go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth over our neighborhood all day and night. Ho hum.

[Wobble 1]

back right after sept11 an AWACS was based here at the local regional airport (its right between houston, dallas, and austin) and some dork neighbor of mine said "did you see that bomber thats at the airport?"

I beat him to death with a large rotory dome.

[Warin 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">if you want noise try 4 F/A-18 E/Fs flying around at 500 feet.  i think someone tried to sue the navy because it set their car alarm off.<span id='postcolor'>

Heh.

Some yahoo Canadian CF-18 pilot decided on a flight from CFB Comox to CFB Cold Lake to buzz his parents house in Vancouver.  As I remember, he stood it on it's tail and went ballistic. And broke the sound barrier. OOPS.  

Seems he broke quite a few windows in his parents neighbourhood.  From what I heard he got a fair bit of trouble when he reached Cold Lake.

[Wobble 1]

man.. it would be hard for me to hold back doing that..

call gf from cell phone.. "hey honey go out said and listen"

ssshhhh kwaboom!

[ralphwiggum 6]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wobble @ Mar. 16 2002,22:04)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">back right after sept11 an AWACS was based here at the local regional airport (its right between houston, dallas, and austin) and some dork neighbor of mine said "did you see that bomber thats at the airport?"

I beat him to death with a large rotory dome.<span id='postcolor'>

LOL!!!!!

Anyway, here's another thing I saw, but I'm not sure of it.

I was in Wilshire District in LA, and was looking out side of the 19th floor window. Suddenly, I see some afterstream(the clouds that is produced after jets fly? can't think of the word right now). Funny thing was that it seemed like they were trying to go behind each other.

[Wobble 1]

this is wierd, one time out at the ranch me and a few other guys were taking a break from spotlighting and just sitting there in the dark.. having a beer..

then in the northern part of the sky there was a flash then 3 seconds later one directly overhead.. then 3 more seconds later one in the southern sky..

about 10 seconds later we hear.. boooom.KABOOM!!!.... booom as the sound from the 3 different explosions? reached us..

never figured out what it was.

[ralphwiggum 6]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wobble @ Mar. 17 2002,01:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">this is wierd, one time out at the ranch me and a few other guys were taking a break from spotlighting and just sitting there in the dark.. having a beer..

then in the northern part of the sky there was a flash then 3 seconds later one directly overhead.. then 3 more seconds later one in the southern sky..

about 10 seconds later we hear.. boooom.KABOOM!!!....  booom as the sound from the 3 different explosions? reached us..  

never figured out what it was.<span id='postcolor'>

call Agent Scully at FBI

[rpc007 0]

maybe afterburners? they make huge streaks of fire behind em

[PHY_Hawkeye 0]

And another time last summer I was on a 747 heading to the USA and an F-16 flew past us heading in the other direction, about 500ft away. That was cool.

[LordZach 0]

when i was on a cruise some harriers buzzed my cruise ship. but as RPC said it was probably afterburners and breaking sound barrier.

[Wobble 1]

well the thing is if these were afterburners.. whatever made it would have to move from one end of the sky.. over me and to the other end.. in 9 seconds..

thats a wee bit fast.. and these explosions were not close.. so the object was very high and far away because the sound took several seconds to reach me... so the distance covered from the first to the third would be very great...

[Tovarish 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wobble @ Mar. 17 2002,01:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">this is wierd, one time out at the ranch me and a few other guys were taking a break from spotlighting and just sitting there in the dark.. having a beer..

then in the northern part of the sky there was a flash then 3 seconds later one directly overhead.. then 3 more seconds later one in the southern sky..

about 10 seconds later we hear.. boooom.KABOOM!!!....  booom as the sound from the 3 different explosions? reached us..  

never figured out what it was.<span id='postcolor'>

Possible that it was a meteorite shower

[Wobble 1]

hmm..never though of that.. only 3?

[Tovarish 0]

Why not?, Ive only ever seen one at a time, and they were all silent, but I know they can cause sonic booms, depends how far into the atmosphere they make it.

BTW on the topic of sonic booms, when I was a kid in Cuba and there were MiG-21's flying around, they were nearly always supersonic. You'd see them dart silently across the sky and half a minute later or so you'd hear the sound of a jet approaching...it'd get loud as hell and then die out after the MiG was long gone, I find it kind of weird now that I think about it since I know in most countries jets are limited to subsonic speeds over land, but then again I never heard the actual "boom" of one crossing the sound barrier, which in an island like Cuba makes sense, since the sea is never far. Then again I've never seen a house in Cuba with glass windows save for hotels.

[Mister Frag 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wobble @ Mar. 17 2002,08:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">this is wierd, one time out at the ranch me and a few other guys were taking a break from spotlighting and just sitting there in the dark.. having a beer..

then in the northern part of the sky there was a flash then 3 seconds later one directly overhead.. then 3 more seconds later one in the southern sky..

about 10 seconds later we hear.. boooom.KABOOM!!!....  booom as the sound from the 3 different explosions? reached us..  

never figured out what it was.<span id='postcolor'>

You probably saw and heard a bolide, a meteor that broke up in the atmosphere, producing a fireball and explosion.

[Badgerboy 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ive sat in a Jaguar back when they were in service, and a Tornado too. Those Jaguars were nifty little planes <span id='postcolor'>

We still do have them! Some are currently getting upgraded at RAF St Athan. They are staying in service until the Typhoon actually gets its ground attack capability (when it gets into bloody service), and at the moment we are using them as testbeds for EF tech. HMS is very impressive on one of these jets considering they are waaaay older than the engineers working on them.

Besides Jags are more fun to fly, the engines aren't rated too high, but there a bit puchier that say a GR4 or an F3.

Talking about those, I have a rather fantastic pic of a F3 that came down the other day..... birdstrike! Popped in the hanger before heading home, and there was a nasty brown film covering the nose and intakes, whilst another had punched through the vertical stabiliser. (Remember, the tail on a Tornado is full of fuel! Thats why its bigger than an F16's wing!

Man vs Nature..... the road to victory!

Oh someone mentioned we were thinking about getting AH64's. We've already got a bunch and the Army are throwing them around at the moment, finding out that they are a bit more delicate than the Yanks told us! BTW, they are all WAH-64 Longbows, not 1 in 3 like the Americans.

[christophercles 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Warin @ Mar. 17 2002,06:05)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">if you want noise try 4 F/A-18 E/Fs flying around at 500 feet.  i think someone tried to sue the navy because it set their car alarm off.<span id='postcolor'><span id='postcolor'>

When i was in queensland, an fa-18 flew UNDER the hieght of my hotel floor. I was like 15 floors up, it scared the hell out of me, because I was looking ontop of the plane

[Tex -USMC- 0]

North of us, in Lubbock Texas, they have a B1 airfield. anyways, the ranchers are always gettin pissed off at the Air Force because they practice their "on the deck" skills in the rural areas (translation: pretty much everywhere). These cows just freak out when these bombers zip over, goin just as close to Mach 1 as they are allowed... anyways, Ive seen em a few times, pretty impressive.

btw, we get all sorts of military aviation passing through our airport (Midland International Airport) most notably, Navy jets. I dont know why the Navy is out here, seeing as the nearest coastline is a good 950 miles away (give or take 2 or 300 miles). My guess is theyre just ferrying their F18s around.

[Supah 0]

I live under the approach to a dutch airforce base. Ive seen it all at low atlitude over my house:

F-16's (dutch,american,norwegian,portugese, turkish)

F-111 (saw the two ship when they went out of service from lakenheath)

Tornado's (german and british)

Harriers

Mig-29 (german and russian)

Su-27's (black knights demo team once visited the airbase) Su-22 (german)

F-18 (USN and swiss)

F-14's (USN)

S-3's (USN)

P-3's (Dutch and Norwegian(?))

F-104 (German, Italian, Dutch and turkish)

F-117's (fly past didnt land)

B-1 (flew past at VERY low altitude during a airshow)

E-3's (NATO and US)

KDC-10's (Dutch, Like a KC-10 only also has cargo capacity beyond KC-10, slightly less fuel)

MiG-21 (polish)

F-5's (Norwegian i suppose)

F-4F (german, IMHO still the coolest plane out there)

EA-6B prowler (USN)

C-130 (Dutch, Norwegian and american)

Transall (german)

AMX (italian)

MiG-23MF (Tsjech (dunno how its spelled in english))

Chinook, apache, Bo-105, Cougar, AB-412SP (SAR Yellow helicopters RULE! CH-53 (G) german.

Theres more but this is what i photographed at the Airbase a friend of mine flew F-16's out of there but he's retired.