A rare aviation sighting!

[littletommy]

Had a B52 fly over the house today! Also a C17, KC135, and numerous fighters old and new, but this one is rare to see.

 

[Peacekeeper3073]

Awesome, to many trees between us I couldn't see it.

 

[littletommy]

Awesome, to many trees between us I couldn't see it.

If it was a couple weeks earlier, we wouldn’t miss anything.

 

[snorko]

I was driving through SE Indiana looking at properties yesterday. It was mostly overcast. While stopped at a temporary traffic light in New Pekin I happened to look up and a C17 came in low through appearing out of the overcast, making a brief appearance, then disappearing back into the misty clouds. It was one of those "like a movie" moments.

 

[Brandon]

Caught a glimpse of a 747 freighter the other day. (Flightradar24)

Its cool to me, no where near as cool as a B52 though.

 

[littletommy]

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Caught a glimpse of a 747 freighter the other day. (Flightradar24)

Its cool to me, no where near as cool as a B52 though.

Flight radar is a great app! Always see something interesting on there.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Had a B52 fly over the house today! Also a C17, KC135, and numerous fighters old and new, but this one is rare to see.

Damn... somebody's got it out for you. I'm surprised you survived!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I know everybody jokes about watching out for the black helicopters but if you've got B52s coming after you...

 

[KellyinAvon]

I know everybody jokes about watching out for the black helicopters but if you've got B52s coming after you...

BUFFs are never in whisper mode like the black helicopters. Now the cruise missiles on the other hand…

 

[Brandon]

I know everybody jokes about watching out for the black helicopters but if you've got B52s coming after you...

We get several helicopters from Fairland around our place.

 

[littletommy]

We get several helicopters from Fairland around our place.

The Ohio river is a prime route for blackhawk helicopters from Ft Knox. I see them every night flying up and down the river. Sometimes they show on flight radar, but most times they don’t.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I’ve never seen a B52 in real life much less flying over the house. That neat. Once, when were living in Bloomington, they had some WW2 warbirds on display out at the airport and I got to see a B17 fly close by.

 

[littletommy]

I’ve never seen a B52 in real life much less flying over the house. That neat. Once, when were living in Bloomington, they had some WW2 warbirds on display out at the airport and I got to see a B17 fly close by.

This was only the third time I’ve ever seen one in the real. One of the other times was maybe 25 years ago at Thunder, and once at the Dayton air show.

 

[LtScott14]

I’ve never seen a B52 in real life much less flying over the house. That neat. Once, when were living in Bloomington, they had some WW2 warbirds on display out at the airport and I got to see a B17 fly close by.

Years back, I did a walking tour or Wright Patterson AFB Museum. Was really an eye opener as to the sheer sizes of real aircraft, tires, wingspan, engine cowling size, how tall the rear tails stood.
Seen some others at Grissom, and also a few of the older WW2 Warbirds flying in and out of Valparaiso Airport. The engines noise are very loud. You can smell the AV fuel burning.
They are history and awesome.
Go visit and enjoy those sights. Worth the trip.

 

[littletommy]

Years back, I did a walking tour or Wright Patterson AFB Museum. Was really an eye opener as to the sheer sizes of real aircraft, tires, wingspan, engine cowling size, how tall the rear tails stood.
Seen some others at Grissom, and also a few of the older WW2 Warbirds flying in and out of Valparaiso Airport. The engines noise are very loud. You can smell the AV fuel burning.
They are history and awesome.
Go visit and enjoy those sights. Worth the trip.

I used to be able to identify the warbirds by sound, but in the last couple of decades you just don’t see or hear as many. I think the two coolest sounding aircraft I’ve heard were the F14 tomcat and the F4u corsair. Both have a sound that you never forget.

 

[Leo]

I’ve never seen a B52 in real life much less flying over the house. That neat. Once, when were living in Bloomington, they had some WW2 warbirds on display out at the airport and I got to see a B17 fly close by.

They have a B52 in the Wright Patterson Air museum in the building. There is something amazing when you walk under the 185 foot wingspan, see the mass of the thing and realize that it can fly over 600 MPH. It is pretty pricey, but the EAA gives sky rides in their B17. one of those one in a lifetime things.

 

[Max Volume]

The largest tires I've seen were on the B-36 at Wright Patterson. Also love the B-58 Hustler and they were
stationed at Grissom back in the 60's. Read somewhere that a training mission was bombing
Chicago. How appropriate.