Not a tractor but............(pic)

David from Kansas · Mar 7, 2018

it certainly can be disrupting when one flies over low when on a tractor or combine. Had the craap scared out of me many times as we are in the area these and other military aircraft are making their bombing runs over Smoky Hill Bombing Range. Just caught this one approaching on a turn and came right over us.

old · Mar 7, 2018

Where I am in Missouri it is common to have the wart-hogs fly over or many different types of helicopters. Fort lost In the woods is south east of me and Whiteman's air force base is north west of me

old-9 · Mar 7, 2018

We had a local spray pilot that loved to fly low over farmers working the fields. 60's-70's , not many cab tractors. He died in a crash , don't know why or how. joe

jeffcat · Mar 7, 2018

That is a big C-17 cargo plane. They are much bigger than they look. Also very quiet engines compaired to other stuff. Really neat when you see one of those C-5A starlifters. Damn they are big!

504 · Mar 7, 2018

We were stripping a rock quarry west of Mark Twain Lake,there was about 20 ac of bare rock. Flat as a pancake. Those jets would drop in on us for practice bomb runs,when you heard them, you had to look the other way or they were gone before you saw them.

1970-1655 · Mar 7, 2018

I was in a small boat fishing a large lake when an F-16 came in very low from behind. He was so low he had to turn it up on it's side to pull up over the creek channel without clipping the wings off. I never heard it coming so I almost fell in. I could read the pilot name as it went past. On the following Monday I asked our engineering manager if he thought it was funny, that was me on the lake. He got a good laugh out of it. He said they usually are about 20-30 feet above the water there.

RusselAZ · Mar 7, 2018

On the farm in north Kansas in the 60's One section we farmed was (had to be) right under the flight path for B-52's and B-58's out of Salina air force base and from one in Oklahoma. Many times I have clutched the tractor or combine thinking something was coming apart. The B-52 were bad enough but the B-58's made a banshee scream just before the explosions of the jet engines womped you. They were flying under radar following the land and were really low. B-58's were super fast. Back then the military planes had dirty engines and sometimes, especially the B-52's with 4 blowing smoke, you could smell the burnt jet fuel. They were fun to watch when you were heading south and saw them coming and wave at the pilots.

In the 80's you could see B-1's flying low over Interstate 80 around Paxton Nebraska.

Dsmythe · Mar 7, 2018

I was out checking cows one day up in the North Georgia Hills, Clarkesville to be exact. I was on a horse. I heard something and looked up in the air. It was a C-5A.
Yes, they are Big and Yes, it shook me up. I had never seen anything like that. It was in 1971, I think. I believe they were being built down in "HotLanta". Dsmythe

David from Kansas · Mar 7, 2018

We still see some B-52s flying around here but not as many as in the past. Lots of planes from out of state use the bombing range here, to include the warthogs.

Busflyer · Mar 8, 2018

(quoted from post at 00:46:38 03/08/18) That is a big C-17 cargo plane. They are much bigger than they look. Also very quiet engines compaired to other stuff. Really neat when you see one of those C-5A starlifters. Damn they are big!

C-5 is a Galaxy
C-141 was the Starlifter and they have been turned in to beer cans.

wisbaker · Mar 8, 2018

On a B-52 you'll have 8 engines turning jet fuel into smoke and noise or the pilot's having a really bad day

shinnery · Mar 9, 2018

It was the B-36s that had 6 turning and 4 burning. I grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas and we were about 6 or 7 miles from the end of the runway and maybe a half mile off center. It was interesting when LeMay would have them clean the base, Three B-52s and a KC-135 and repeat until they were all gone.

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