Fighter Jets? over the area

Anyone heard the jets flying low and slow over the area? Every couple months I hear them and when I talk to people nobody else hears them. They are super loud and flying slow as you can hear the rumble for good minute or two on each pass. I have been hearing them for the past 15-20 minutes or so, I went outside to see if I could get it on camera or see anything. I saw an aircraft making circles over the are, it was very loud, I saw a couple faint red lights on it. It was flying from Southeast to Southwest mostly in a circle pattern. Although there may have been more than one.

They are still flying over now. I got a good video, uploading it now to Youtube. You can hear it, but not sure you can see the red lights.

Anyone know if these are fighter jets or something else?

Video (you can't see them really, just hear them) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWbAj6QUB-g

 

I believe they were cargo jets.. C-17's??

 

sounds like freedom

 

Hear them at least once a month over Four Oaks!!!

 

The low, slow, quiet ones are c-117's usually out of Pope Army Airfield at Ft. Bragg. They have made some really cool showings of formation flying around here, Sometimes twenty at a time. usually two or three.
The loud ones you usually hear (like today) and don't see are F-15 Eagles, out of Seymour Johnson AFB. they are usually in transit or cool down around here, go outside Goldsboro and see some neat things occasionally.
Other neat ones I have seen around are Apache choppers, Osprey and harrier VTOL's and a very rare pair of A-10's always extremely low.
They make a lot of appearances in the skies over JoCo and they can be a little loud every now and then but I'm glad they're ours!

 

C-17's not 117's Pope also has c-130's they use a lot.

 

We definately heard them last night - they were around for a long time. Confused my 18 month old since he could hear them but couldn't see them

 

One of the best aircraft in the USAF arsenal.

 

In Myrtle Beach back before the Air Force base closed, you would the A-10's flying in and out, two by two, throughout the day.

 

Craig,

Are all of those planes, used in our military, painted like that?

Sherry

 

Wart hogs. They also are headed to be moth balled.

 

Sherry,

The only planes I've ever seen actually painted like this were the A-10 Thunderbolt II.....aka the Warthog. And they were either painted like this or with a shark's mouth look.

 

Thanks. Very cool paint job.

Sherry

 

The A-10 has a titanium "bathtub" for the pilot because it is a ground attack plane and a lot of fire can come form beneath, which is why the engines are mounted higher too. The gatling cannon can actually slow the plane down when it fires too. The depleted uranium slugs were an environmental concern after the liberation of Kuwait and the destruction of the forces fleeing into Iraq.

 

A-10 gun runs, notice the ground test requires the aircraft to be tied in place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD1j5lksoko

 

Slow aircraft too due to the nature of its mission. We used to say it was the only jet succeptable to a bird strike from behind.

 

prefer the videos where you can hear what the gun sounds like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2KbwPMU18

 

Saw two jets fly over Holly Springs today, just after 11 o'clock. Looked like f-15/17/18 style. Only two, in formation, flew from New Hill/Apex area over Fuquay-Varina, and headed back towards Cary
Neat to finally see em in the daylight

 

sirputz, they came over the cleveland school area today hauling ass and making noise

 

As quick as you see them, they're just as quick at disappearing.