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On 3/12/25 4:31 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>> In article <UvkAP.369542$gmf6.254265@fx45.iad>,
>> Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>> I was hiking last weekend (1200' trail altitude) and pair of
>>> blackhawks flew overhead at maybe 1600' - definitely audible
>>> for miles coming _and_ going.
>>
>> Be glad you didn't get buzzed by an F-35.  I always found that
>> annoying when I was outside the wire.
> 
> I used to live a half mile from the threshold for 32R at
> Moffett during early 90s.   The constant drone of P-3's
> doing touch-an-go's became background noise.  However,
> the C-5A's landing at 0300 during Desert Storm were
> obnoxiously loud and could be heard when they were
> still over Las Gatos.
> 
> I spent one Friday before a Moffett field airshow at
> the threshold with a scanner watching the inbound
> aircraft 50 feet overhead - including a B-1B and an
> SR-71.
> 
> The best was when we had a base pass at Edwards to watch
> a shuttle landing. I lived in the LA basin then, and we
> always heard the double-boom as the shuttle flew over
> the basin; it was a 6am landing, so we went up the night
> before and rolled out a sleeping bag in the parking lot.

   Heh ... I was flying a little plane on what swiftly
   became kinda IFR conditions when an F-18 suddenly
   blasted by, 100' or less, at about 400 knots. If
   better weather I coulda made out his face. Under the
   conditions, all I could do is get on UNICOM and
   say "F-18 pilot, keep an eye on your radar !"

   It was probably intentional - fighter-jock fun.