Did anyone else hear/see the three low flying jets around midnight? I thought they were going to take off the roof. They made the doors on a bookcase rattle, the cats went for cover and it woke up DH, he thought he dreamt it. Any ideas on who to complain too?
They woke me up a few hours ago, my brain went from "Was I dreaming that? " to ... "Was it a natural disaster, like an earthquake or tornado? Wait ... were those fighter jets? Is there something wrong??? " I had to get up and check the news.
I heard em too. I woke up and thought,"what the hell is going on." Must of been the military. It doesnt happen every night so I am cool with it. I just wish I had got up to see them.
Oh, they don't even wake me. I grew up 15 mins. off Fort Bragg/Pope and right behind military training acreage, so I'm used to it. Probably coming back to base from some off-site training maneuvers.
I've seen those military planes often. Apparently their flight pattern takes them over here, through Lillington (where I used to live) on their way to Fort Bragg. They always seem to come in threes. I wonder why.
FYI: The military planes circle the Radar Tower off Raleigh Road near Coats Crossroads (NC 210). That wierd dome thingy is a major East Coast radar early warning site. (it's in the field off to the Right as you go towards Benson or 310.) Years ago it did not have the dome cover & you could see the half moon antenna turn "Looking" for the Russians! Scary!
I was up and saw them from my front porch. Looked like C5a'S. They were definitely under the 1000 foot minimum. When they went by I could see the antenna tower on hwy 210 behind them, and the red light on top of it was above them. When I first moved out to this area they used to come directly over my house at 300 to 500 feet. The whole darn house shook. It took an act of God and the FAA to get them to get them to stop. Instead they moved the Pope AFB aproach pattern 1/4 mile southeast, which must be your house now. :lol: :lol: Those things carry 10,000 gallons of fuel. Can you imagine what a neighborhood would look like if they had a flight failure at 500 foot off the ground? No chance to ditch in a field at that elevation.
Sounds like the people you bought the house from left out that minute detail. Unless its an everyday thing, I like the sound of those military jets. Never gets old. I grew up around SJAFB. The turbofans on those transport planes now are quiet compared to eight thundering older-generation engines pushing loaded B-52s into the air. Of course, I wouldn't particularly care for them rattling me out of bed nowadays. Although I slept through Hurricane Fran so I can probably sleep through something like that.
Yes, I can imagine. I saw the Pentagon on 9/11. I don't think they were headed to Pope, from what I saw. This has only happened once before that any of us can remember and it was about the same time last year.
Several times a year they change flight patterns so that the pilots and navigators have different landmarks to target in on when making approach runs. They will also make day and night flights to to further train with the new landmarks. Also it is often over stated as to how low they are really flying, especially from an untrained observer who is located on the ground. I mean if you think about it in terms of a football field being 300 feet long (360 feet if you count the endzones) Craig
You can poop in one hand and complain in the other. See which one fills up faster. Were are just a hop skip and jump away from Goldsboro.
Very rarely are you going to hear F-15E's from Seymour Johnson at low altitude in western Johnston County...even eastern Johnston County. The type of low altitude training they conduct is done so mostly over the Dare County bombing range. Much different sound too at low altitude...from a transport plane. I was going up I-95 toward Kenly one day when a F-15 (think it was an "E" model) streaking very close to the ground flying over I-95 at high speed, but not enough to break the sound barrier. I presumed that because it was out of the ordinary, that it could have been they happened to be in the air and was called to intercept a small plane or something. It seems that around this area, you're more likely to hear A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthogs), C-130 Hercules turboprop transports, C-17 Globemasters and the occasional higher altitude F-15. Plus, throw in a Chinook (double rotor) helicopter, Blackhawk and an Apache ever so often...mostly from the Guard unit stationed at RDU. Most activities east of I-95 is going to be from Bragg and Pope. Although, I have seen a growing number of Osprey tilt-rotors from Camp Lejuene/Cherry Point. It is a very, very rare occasion for me to see the big C-5 Galaxy because they are not stationed anywhere that close by. That is an enormous aircraft mostly used for very heavy lifting operations...tanks and other armor/artillery vehicles, helicopters, tractor trailers, fleet of Humvees, etc. Most of the large transport planes I see transversing the skies above around here are the Globemasters which look sort of like stubby C-5s and I think they (Globemasters) are stationed at Charleston, SC and work in tandem with the 82nd Airborne.
