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Originally Posted by farmerjumperdon
My turn off-topic, just because the experience was so memorable. There was a grass fire about a mile from our house, and this bright yellow C-130 firefighting aircraft made several very low, full throttle, very steep (wings perpendicular to ground) passes right over our farm. It was so large, and so low, and so loud, and with it standing on one wing - it just gave us all goosebumps watching it. And I mean close; close enough that your instinct was to get out of the way.
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My dad was working in Missouri on a freeway a few years back. One night they set up the concretre batch plant which stood about 90 feet high. The next afternoon two B-1s took evasive action because of it. After that they moved a bit further east.
We've had a few C-130s flying around the house here (AF base next door) and they are wicked loud. They also seem to always look closer than they really are. I'm getting to where I can tell an A-10 by the sound though. There is this high pitched whistle that comes off of them.
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