Calmly doing our thing on a boundary survey this past Thursday when suddenly I hear a strange noise in the sky. Look up and there are three black helicopters flying mighty low to the ground almost directly overhead. My first thought was a memory of watching the skies on 9/11 and seeing no aircraft of any kind despite being less than two miles from an airport. Fortunately, they weren't looking for me. Here's a link to what they were really up to:
Part of Fort Campbell is in the county I live in.
There have been many days that I just packed the gear up and gave up on working. Too much noise from the Chinook training flights.
I enjoy the peace and quite of surveying in the small county I live in. After about the 20th fly-over, I finally realize the quite is gone for the day.
Sometimes, I'll try to go to a job at another end of the county. I swear those pilots follow me!!
S.O.P. in S.E. Cleveland County
The Muldrow Army Air Support Facility in Lexington, Ok. keeps the air humming around here.
Between the CH-47 and Blackhawk maintenance and the OHP Hughes 500 flights helping the local sheriff look for weed patches in the woods, you're never alone. Most are readily apparent due to the noise.
However, I have seen a few over the years that come and go at a low altitude that make very, very little noise...(?!) Just the rush of the wind over the fuselage. A little unnerving at times. o.O
I must be on the flight path between bases.
Have seen most every type of aircraft pass overhead at some point in time thru the last 27yrs.
Never have gotten used to the transports flying just above the treetops.
Remember back in the 80s below Jefferson that a Harrier was playing hide and seek in and out of the clouds along Big Cypress Creek.
At first I thought it was falling out of the sky and I swear it was going backwards.
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About 20 years ago there were a couple stealth thingies that would make a U-turn about 20 miles north of my house every Wednesday around noon. A few times we were eating lunch in a cafe near their flight path. My co-worker would always say, "Did you see that?" To which I always responded, "See what?"
Here where I live Lockheed/Martin has a pretty good sized plant. They built and maintain the C-5, are still building the C-130 Hercules, provide upgrades for the P-5 Orion, and built parts of the F-22 and F-35. If airplane noise bothers you this is definitely not the place to be.
Andy
Nacogdoches, Texas is not on any flight path that I know of. With the exception of medical helicopter flights, you may not even see another low flying aircraft for a week or two. Once when our boys were about 7 or 8 years old and playing baseball, there was an airshow at the local airport. When the old planes buzzed the city that Saturday to let everyone know they were in town, every player on the baseball field stopped what they were doing to look up and watch the planes circle. We quickly learned to call time out before a ground ball to shortstop became an in the park homerun - no kidding! Fast forward several years when our sons were freshman in high school on the baseball team. We had a tournament in Marshall, Texas at the Airport Park Baseball complex. We took the baseball coach aside and warned him about playing next to the landing strip, because our sons had basically never seen many airplanes and would turn and watch the planes when they came in to land. He looked at us like we were crazy, but the week after the tournament was over, he called us aside and said that we had been right. Hard to believe in this day and time, but still pretty much true here today.
Was sitting out near Prospect Reservoir to meet with the local irrigation folks a couple of weeks ago just North of DIA, glanced up to see a B-2 bomber quietly moving from West to East pretty low to the ground. Not a common site for me.
When we see black hielo's above us, they are generally DEA or DPS and are looking for pot fields.
This is a terrific website; I love to read you guys' posts but seldom make entries. But here goes.
I have observed them well past midnight sometimes. They show up well with a full moon.
My brother was in the Air Force; he told me some info he slowly learned after decades moving up the various classified levels of the security clearance ladder.
A lot of it is too disturbing for me to tell here. Few people would believe it anyway. When people have to face things that don't dovetail with their belief systems, they ridicule and worse. Kind of like Galileo who observed that the earth revolves around the sun. He was kept under house arrest the rest of his life.
Then there is the privacy issue: Everything is monitored, phone, internet,etc., as we all have learned the past year. So I would just like to say:
We have a covert government that does black ops, here on us the domestic population as well as well as overseas. The part of the Pentagon budget that is black (covert) is almost equal to the regular Pentagon budget. That is hidden.
Would you believe the best way to maintain secrecy with black ops is to operate below the surface of our planet ? My brother says you have to be willing to sign a 2 year agreement to go underground. That's right, work, sleep, recreation,etc., all underground in massive tunnels and concrete offices. So that does not work well for family people in general.
Many black helicopters are used in response to military bases that report unknown flying objects hovering silently within just a few hundred feet above sensitive areas such as nuclear control facilities, nuclear storage bunkers, nuclear launch silos,etc. They are observed visually and on radar at the same time. Sometimes these objects disable launch facilities, then they turn that facility capability back on or power is restored when these UFO's leave. Kind of like telling us, you are just punks, we are the real grown ups.
There's a lot going on that the public just cannot know, if they were told, few people could get up in the morning and go to work.
Nasa decided in 1967 to keep photos taken on the far side of the moon secret, even though some former Nasa employees have come out and given interviews. Domed structures and rectangular abandoned structures were in the photos. Enough said.
Nasa's excuse: "Culture shock"