HOLY CRAP!

[mysteryowl]

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]

1. I once lived right under the landing pattern (depending on the wind) of Navy jets.

Yes, it’ll rattle your windows all right.

When people flinched at the nearby bar, the old geezers would say, “sound of freedom.”

[mysteryowl]

7. "Sound of freedom"

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]

13. They were so close over us we could see the rivets on the underside of the plane.

I was a heluva lot younger then, now it would drive me batty.

Terrified the dogs. They never seeme to get used to it.

I’m 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 weren’t dropping bombs!

They did accidentally drop their tow targets a few times.

[mysteryowl]

14. Sorry to ask, what is a "tow target"?

I know it ruins the fun you are having with "tow target", I want to have fun too. What is it?

[cwydro]

16. One plane tows a target. I assume that was a different kind of plane, but I've forgotten.

Then the fighters shoot at it. (I assume it’s 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 someone’s boat, another time in a trailer park. Caused all kinds of an uproar!

[mysteryowl]

20. Okay, thanks for explaining.

[cwydro]

22. Yeah, when it fell - the metal chain or cord or whatever came down too, so there was damage.

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]

24. Stayed in Texas,near an Air Force base, one night. Asked for a wake up call, the clerk laughed.

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]

2. Trump goin after the hurricane ? He is the chosen one who can call that up I guess

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[mysteryowl]

4. Ha!

[Totally Tunsie]

15. Save the day...

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[lunasun]

17. HA but more like Mighty Mouth imo

[Totally Tunsie]

18. As in

[lunasun]

21. + + yep

[Captain Zero]

32. I love the moobs on him

In this cartoon

[Totally Tunsie]

34. ...and the tiny hands, too!

[FakeNoose]

26. Dr. Strangelove!

Great flick, I haven't seen it in way too long.

[rzemanfl]

3. Many years ago an Air National Guard guy buzzed his parents

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]

5. Wow, what a story!

[rzemanfl]

10. I should add it was explained to me who the pilot was,

who his parents were, and how I never saw it.

[mysteryowl]

12. I see nothing!

[rzemanfl]

30. That's right, I never saw that F-100 fly down the street in 1971. n/t

[nocoincidences]

6. I live on the flight path to Oceana

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]

8. I know, right! So late in the evening. What is up with that?

Yet, what time of day would be good for that?

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. In order to get good at flying and landing at night.....

you have to fly and land at night.

[mysteryowl]

11. Well... that is logical.

[Duppers]

29. BTDT, so I can empathize.

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]

19. Bringing back memories of sonic booms. Those were fun.

[brewens]

23. We were golfing during the local airshow one year and were down in this little canyon

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]

25. Quite a rush indeed.

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]

27. I only knew what those planes were from seeing what was scheduled for the show.

We didn't get much of a look at them from the hole we were in.

[Blue Owl]

31. By the time you hear 'em they're gone...

[Sogo]

33. I lived for a few months near what was then

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.....

[SweetieD]

35. I live near nellis air force base and hear stuff all the time. I guess I'm used to it.