Just Saw One Of These Fly Over My Neighborhood Earlier

[KyCatFan]

Pretty unusual to see a V-22 Osprey flying through Louisville with no Air Force or Marine bases (the primary users of the plane I believe) nearby. I assume it was just passing through. I'm not sure if the Army ever uses the plane or not. It may have been doing some kind of exercises at Fort Knox. Wish I heard it sooner to get a picture of it. I was in the Air Force and worked around aircraft so I find things like this interesting.

 

[funKYcat75]

One flew over Lexington today too.

 

[Mashburned]

I heard a big boom?

Also, they say Armageddon is on Saturday.

 

[Willy4UK]

We got one down here in Tampa.

 

[*CatinIL*]

I heard a big boom?

Also, they say Armageddon is on Saturday.

Yep...

 

[UK_Is_Good]

Yep...

This is going to happen just as we are taking the victory formation against Florida.

 

[Kooky Kats]

No worries. Earth is flat.

 

[*CatinIL*]

This is going to happen just as we are taking the victory formation against Florida.

Just our luck!!!

 

[dgtatu01]

I’ve seen several of those fly over the Louisville area over the years. Wickedest military thing I ever heard was an Apache formation fly very low directly overhead at night. They were scooting and the bass those things were generating rattled my soul.

 

[KingOfBBN]

I thought Big Blue Sean had stepped up his drone game.

 

[TexKat]

Saw one here in Houston the other day as well. Beware....

 

[H. Lecter]

We're at war with Korea!

 

[CastleRubric]

Still mostly a Navy aircraft IIRC

There were actually several cancelled orders from the other US Svc's over the years

Japan bought a bunch though

There's a Naval Surface Warfare Ctr in Indiana I think
don't know if that's a possible origin

It could also possibly have been Boeing's property and being tested as it's on the way for USG delivery

 

[Marine_In_VA]

Still mostly a Navy aircraft IIRC

There were actually several cancelled orders from the other US Svc's over the years

Japan bought a bunch though

There's a Naval Surface Warfare Ctr in Indiana I think
don't know if that's a possible origin

It could also possibly have been Boeing's property and being tested as it's on the way for USG delivery

Marines replaced the CH-46 helicopter with them, so they have a bunch of em. I pretty much see them here in eastern NC every day.

 

[BlueRaider22]

We vacationed in Destin this yr. Saw a formation of 3 almost every single day going back/forth from presumably Eglin to Tyndall.

 

[Ryan Lemonds Diary]

We stayed in Mexico Beach FL a few years ago. It was pretty cool to see the fighter jets flying in an out of Tyndall to do training exercises everyday. There was no sleeping in though because those things flying over your condo at 8:00 will wake you up in a hurry.

 

[Kaizer Sosay]

Good night, sweet osprey.

 

[BoulderCat]

The Air Force Academy isn't far from me. One of the things I love are flyover's before a college football game. Part of the pageantry. I once saw one at a CU/CSU game, and I thought I could reach up and up and touch them. Angels on our shoulders. Coming out of the setting sun over the Front Range. It took my breath away. It pleases me so much to know that one of my best friends from Harlan became an F18 pilot, and there are men and women looking out for us everyday.

 

[CastleRubric]

Marines replaced the CH-46 helicopter with them, so they have a bunch of em. I pretty much see them here in eastern NC every day.

Is that Cherry Point?

 

[Marine_In_VA]

Is that Cherry Point?

Right outside of Camp Lejeune. Cherry Point has the C130s and the jets up there.

 

[CastleRubric]

The Air Force Academy isn't far from me. One of the things I love are flyover's before a college football game. Part of the pageantry. I once saw one at a CU/CSU game, and I thought I could reach up and up and touch them. Angels on our shoulders. Coming out of the setting sun over the Front Range. It took my breath away. It pleases me so much to know that one of my best friends from Harlan became an F18 pilot, and there are men and women looking out for us everyday.

Col Springs!

You also have a significant CDC site -- vector borne diseases if I remember correctly

Is Shriever Air Station still out there?
(Used to be called Falcon A/S when I visited)


Talk about a place with some interesting crap

Tesla once blew up the town's power grid I think
Peterson AFB is there and controls all of Air Force Space Command
NORAD

The Rams

 

[CastleRubric]

Right outside of Camp Lejeune. Cherry Point has the C130s and the jets up there.

Am I right to think that one of them is near "Cherokee NC"?

 

[Kooky Kats]

Is that Cherry Point?

I drove my sweetie up to Cherry Point in Pop's '59 Chevy...The fields were empty, laying in the back seat listening to Little Willie John. Yea, that's when time stood still.

"You know, I think I'm gonna go down to Madam X
And let her read my mind".
She said "That Voodoo stuff don't do nothing for me."

 

[Chuckinden]

The Air Force Academy isn't far from me. One of the things I love are flyover's before a college football game. Part of the pageantry. I once saw one at a CU/CSU game, and I thought I could reach up and up and touch them. Angels on our shoulders. Coming out of the setting sun over the Front Range. It took my breath away. It pleases me so much to know that one of my best friends from Harlan became an F18 pilot, and there are men and women looking out for us everyday.

Who was that?

 

[BoulderCat]

Who was that?

I would be betraying his right to privacy if I said. I'll only say they don't give the keys to one of those things to just anyone. I once drove 400 miles round trip just to sit in it's cockpit. They are not like private jets with all their fancy stuff. They are all business with just bunches of metal switches, and more instruments than I could count, and I can count. I'm amazed anyone can fly one of those things, but as I've said I'm damn glad they are out there looking out for you and me.

 

[Marine_In_VA]

Am I right to think that one of them is near "Cherokee NC"?

No. Opposite sides of the state. Lejeune and Cherry Point are about an hour apart on the east coast and Cherokee is in the far western part of the state.

 

[Chuckinden]

I would be betraying his right to privacy if I said. I'll only say they don't give the keys to one of those things to just anyone. I once drove 400 miles round trip just to sit in it's cockpit. They are not like private jets with all their fancy stuff. They are all business with just bunches of metal switches, and more instruments than I could count, and I can count. I'm amazed anyone can fly one of those things, but as I've said I'm damn glad they are out there looking out for you and me.

Right to privacy. Good God man, I grew up in Harlan County and just wondered who he is. Can we send him a HIPPA form to sign?

 

[ymmot31]

Don't know, don't care.

 

[BigTyrone]

Chem trails, bro.

 

[rudd1]

-played against cherry point in a rugby game at the cape fear 7's tourney in wilminton nc. They sucked and we kicked their ass...but they got their licks in. Dirtiest sob's I ever played against.