Things you find in the air.

[bcp]

Heard a radial engine pass over. FR24 showed an airliner icon, so I ignored it. Figured it was another non-transponder plane I heard. Clicked on the airliner icon and it said 90 knots. I investigated. It was a Murphy Moose.

Bruce

 

[MossRoad]

Heard a radial engine pass over. FR24 showed an airliner icon, so I ignored it. Figured it was another non-transponder plane I heard. Clicked on the airliner icon and it said 90 knots. I investigated. It was a Murphy Moose.

Bruce

Never heard of it. Looked it up. Interesting.

 

[BravoXray]

Was flying eastward in northern Ohio one afternoon, and my Monroy Traffic Alert started advising of traffic 5 miles and ~1000 feet below me. It didn't give a bearing to the target, so I kept watching, 4 miles, 3 miles, 2 miles, still 1000 feet below and gaining on it fast. Finally at 1 mile, directly ahead I spotted it below and off to the left, was the Goodyear Blimp. I was returning to Akron from a ND football game that weekend.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

One Saturday morning early, (about 25 years ago) I heard all of these radial engines; I ran out side and there were three B25s and an AT6 Texan. My neighbor ran out too; turns out he was a sheet metal worker who repaired these old ships when they got shot up in WWII.

 

[MossRoad]

Was flying eastward in northern Ohio one afternoon, and my Monroy Traffic Alert started advising of traffic 5 miles and ~1000 feet below me. It didn't give a bearing to the target, so I kept watching, 4 miles, 3 miles, 2 miles, still 1000 feet below and gaining on it fast. Finally at 1 mile, directly ahead I spotted it below and off to the left, was the Goodyear Blimp. I was returning to Akron from a ND football game that weekend.

When I was a little kid, my dad took me over to the Elkhart airport one evening to see the Goodyear blimp moored there, in town for an ND football game. We were watching the guys working with the helium truck. It was pretty cool, all lit up in the dark. They had a rope around the blimp so you couldn't get too close. A guy walked up and was talking with my dad. Then my dad picked me up and we went over to the blimp with the guy. He took us into the cabin and put me in the pilot's seat! I grabbed the yoke and turned it back and forth. Typical little kid.

I always used to love the fall football season. We'd be out in the yard, and hear these weird engine sounds, and we knew it was the blimp coming. If flew over our neighborhood often. Another aircraft with unique engine sounds.

 

[Dftodd]

Heard a high pitched buzzing while out walking my dog. She then completely and utterly lost her sh#t.

Puffed up, growl resounding from her toenails, and barking up a storm.

Looked around and then up. Someone was flying a drone.

When it started moving in our direction, she decided she had enough and dragged me to the house

 

[/pine]

I can't remember what shuttle it was...but one time the 747 carrying the space shuttle back from a CA landing...stopped overnight at MacDill AFB because of weather at the cape...we drove over to the base to watch it land...

 

[MossRoad]

I can't remember what shuttle it was...but one time the 747 carrying the space shuttle back from a CA landing...stopped overnight at MacDill AFB because of weather at the cape...we drove over to the base to watch it land...

That would have been cool to see!

My wife and I were driving through Florida one day. From the Disney area, straight east to the coast, then down towards Miami. As we neared the coast, we saw cars parked all over the sides of the roads. I asked a guy what was going on. He said a space shuttle was going to launch in about 5 minutes! So we got out, looked in the same direction as everyone else, and then we see this BRIGHT GLOW behind some palm trees about 3 miles away and a whole bunch of white smoke! Then up goes the darn space shuttle! WOW!!

15 seconds later, the sound hits us! You could feel it in your chest, even at 3 miles. Very cool! Hung around for 5 minutes, then got back in our car and left.

Many years later, we were at Disney with our kids. We walk out of It's a Small World, into the bright sunlight, look up, and there goes another space shuttle, but much farther away. WOW again. Couldn't hear it at Disney, but you could see the smoke and fire from the engines.

So we got to see them launch twice, and both were unplanned, and just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.

 

[Buckeye Guy]

I live relatively close to the Dayton airport and Wright Patt AFB(15 miles or so), so every year during the air show and other events I get to see just about every kind of aircraft fly overhead. Over the last 28 years, the most memorable have been the thunderbirds, the Memphis Belle, Stealth bomber, a P-38 lightning, A-10's, P-51's, B-1B, and many more. 25 years ago I got to fly a T-6 texan at the Greene county airport.

 

[bcp]

I once lived where a WWII airbase was turned over to the county for a local airport. Airline service was by DC-3, then later the F-27.

One day I hear a different noise, look up, and see a DC-10 landing. A few hours later I arrive at the airport. The plane had an engine problem indicated, so landed there.

There was no way to get the passengers off. A forklift was brought in, and using a pallet with rails on 3 sides, unloaded the passengers.

Several hours later a 727 (rear stairs) arrived with mechanics, and left with the passengers. Later the DC-10 left. Indicator problem, not engine problem.

Bruce

 

[bcp]

Same airport, a different biplane than the common crop dusters flew over. Go check it out, and it turns out to be a Boeing 40, airmail and passenger plane. Got to walk around, talk to the pilot, etc. Airports weren't restricted then like now.

Bruce

 

[Dftodd]

That would have been cool to see!

My wife and I were driving through Florida one day. From the Disney area, straight east to the coast, then down towards Miami. As we neared the coast, we saw cars parked all over the sides of the roads. I asked a guy what was going on. He said a space shuttle was going to launch in about 5 minutes! So we got out, looked in the same direction as everyone else, and then we see this BRIGHT GLOW behind some palm trees about 3 miles away and a whole bunch of white smoke! Then up goes the darn space shuttle! WOW!!

15 seconds later, the sound hits us! You could feel it in your chest, even at 3 miles. Very cool! Hung around for 5 minutes, then got back in our car and left.

Many years later, we were at Disney with our kids. We walk out of It's a Small World, into the bright sunlight, look up, and there goes another space shuttle, but much farther away. WOW again. Couldn't hear it at Disney, but you could see the smoke and fire from the engines.

So we got to see them launch twice, and both were unplanned, and just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.

I lived in the Orlando area for 12 years. I've watched some night launches from Cape Canaveral on several occasions from my back yard.

You would see a bright orange ball rising into the sky. Then it would disappear for a second or two. Then you would see a bright orange ball continue up, while another orange ball went back down. I believe those were rocket launches that I was seeing.

I was also one of the only people at out rental company I worked for cleared for security to drive anywhere around Caneveral.

I've had my F550 service truck parked next to the crawler that moves the shuttle to the launch pad.

That thing was Massive!!!!! Made that F550 look like a child's toy car was parked next to it.

 

[civilian]

I can't remember what shuttle it was...but one time the 747 carrying the space shuttle back from a CA landing...stopped overnight at MacDill AFB because of weather at the cape...we drove over to the base to watch it land...

We were at Edwards AF Base in CA for the 4th of July landing of a shuttle. Then the prior landed shuttle was taking off mated to the 747. We have seen the shuttle crawler in FL. Also been on Vandenburg AF Base and saw their verticle Shuttle Assembly building. Original plans was for the AF to have their own shuttle. Because of ?, theirs went to the Cape instead. Jon

 

[BravoXray]

The crawlers were built by Marion Power Shovel in Ohio and Rockwell International. They are each powered by two 2,750hp Alco locomotive engines that power 16 electric motors to drive the tracks. Original cost was $14 million each.

 

[BarryTX]

Heard a high pitched buzzing while out walking my dog. She then completely and utterly lost her sh#t.

Puffed up, growl resounding from her toenails, and barking up a storm.

Looked around and then up. Someone was flying a drone.

When it started moving in our direction, she decided she had enough and dragged me to the house

Lol. Poor dog.

 

[oosik]

Later in the summer we will hear a buzzing sound. It's folks with their powered ultra light aircraft. Sounds like a lawn mower. My dog will come over and sit down - right next to me - as we both watch.

 

[ultrarunner]

Air Force 1 landing and then on the tarmac at the very small Salzburg Austria airport which is very close to city center... A patriotic moment for sure.

President Reagan was there to dedicate the opening if the American Diplomatic office.

Air Force One dominated as this really is a small airport and even smaller then although once the Concord landed on a promotional tour with lots of prep and I believe nearly empty...

 

[MossRoad]

Air Force 1 landing and then on the tarmac at the very small Salzburg Austria airport which is very close to city center... A patriotic moment for sure.

President Reagan was there to dedicate the opening if the American Diplomatic office.

Air Force One dominated as this really is a small airport and even smaller then although once the Concord landed on a promotional tour with lots of prep and I believe nearly empty...

Air Force 1 has landed in South Bend numerous times over the years. If I go out to the end of my driveway I can see it landing or taxiing by. I can see the blimp when it parks overnight hear as well. And most ND home games get a military flyby. On of the perks of living in a college town.

 

[MossRoad]

From my mailbox. Air Force 1 moving around, a Goodyear blimp, and a Met Life blimp at night.

 

[JethroB]

Directly behind my house about 500 feet is an abandoned crop duster hanger and the remains of the grass landing strip. Mr. Ben operated out of there until the mid 80’s. Mostly he flew a Pawnee but one year he had a Stearman. That one would wake me up quick in the mornings. In and out all day long spraying for nearby farmers. A joy to watch, as graceful as a ballet dancer. He finally had to retire due to failing eyesight.