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Title: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: Henry on June 13, 2011, 07:54:53 PM
Hi Henry,
This plane was circling over Fairfax Village , today at around noon. I saw it 3 times, flying very low.
Got any clues?

Jo

(http://www.vtgrandpa.com/photos/albums/icestorm_080309/00715_G.sized.jpg)

Here is a huge photo

http://www.vtgrandpa.com/photos/icestorm_080309/00715_G?full=1 (http://www.vtgrandpa.com/photos/icestorm_080309/00715_G?full=1)

Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: VT Maineiac on June 13, 2011, 08:13:17 PM
I'm not an airline specialist, but they were doing a "fly-by" (or whatever the term is) for BFA elementary students.
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: 7F24 on June 13, 2011, 08:28:14 PM
It was a C130 just out training.  He was flying low because he was VFR(visual flight rules) and the clouds were low.  They flew all over the area including over Burlington.
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: al brodeur on June 13, 2011, 08:34:43 PM
bingo! C-130 noisey devils
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: Mike Raburn on June 14, 2011, 01:13:16 AM
C-130s were a staple here in Anchorage at the AFB until the C-17s came out and were based here.

The C-17s just don't look right "lumbering" into the sky....

If you were blind folded and tossed into a C-17 hull, un blind folded you'd swear you were in a C-5.

They are that wide inside.

Amazing planes the C-17s AND C-130s.
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: cedarman on June 14, 2011, 08:38:55 AM
My thought seeing the photo was C-130.  It is the same basic model as the "Fat Albert" the Navy Blue Angels fly for air shows.  The take off / landing distances needed are impressively short considering the size of the plan and their cargo load capacity.
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: NPM, LLC on June 14, 2011, 08:54:19 AM
The C-130 pilot was a Fairfax graduate (not sure if I can give their name, so I won't) who was in Burlington for a short while.  Nice picture, Henry.  I wish I would have grabbed my camera when he banked right over my house...simply amazing!!!!    I know his mom was thrilled!
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: Chris Santee on June 14, 2011, 09:33:06 AM
it sure put a smile on this old airdale's face.
would love to see an RA-5C fly again.
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: Scott on June 14, 2011, 10:45:14 AM
It used to fly right over IBM for hours every day. I assumed it was for touch n go or cargo drop training.
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: Stand Alone Defense on June 14, 2011, 11:27:46 AM
C 130's YUCK HATE THOSE THINGS!!! Use to ride in those a lot in the Bees.
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: Travis on June 14, 2011, 01:20:21 PM
I felt like the air traffic controller in the movie Top Gun when he buzzed my house. I think 50 feet lower and he could have been driving on the road.
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: nancyd on June 14, 2011, 06:20:40 PM
It scared me half to death! I heard this loud noise coming towards my house. I thought a plane had lost control and was going to hit. I wasn't looking out the window at the time... Just heard thIs overpowering rumble come closer and closer. I thought this is it.... Then it went away.... Until the second time... And third time. I wasn't thrilled.
Nancyd
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: al brodeur on June 14, 2011, 06:30:10 PM
 C 130 one of the worlds most popular aircraft and its old I first flew in them in the early 60's
civilian version is the L 480 which is 12 feet longer we used to load two S58'T' helicopters in them and go to Saudi  5 trips--no wonder I am deaf
how about some F4's like the austronauts flew--Conrad and Gordon both we our squadron pilots and Gordon set the cross country speed record in one
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: woodstoves2 on June 14, 2011, 08:01:04 PM
'Nam 67&68 ... just a passenger (military standby). It took me upcountry, stopping at every landing strip along the way....up, down, up, down... rarely flying  level. The seats were more like bicycle racks. And the temporary duty trips to Japan were torture...cold. long, and noisy. But, it beat walking.
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: mkr on June 15, 2011, 12:27:24 PM
I wished I was home so I could have seen it. What a joy for Uncle Marc to fly over the school for Neice and Nephews to at least see him flying overhead.  They were doing low flying training that day during his layover here. 
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: Mike Raburn on June 17, 2011, 01:40:11 AM
Quote from: cedarman on June 14, 2011, 08:38:55 AM
My thought seeing the photo was C-130.  It is the same basic model as the "Fat Albert" the Navy Blue Angels fly for air shows.  The take off / landing distances needed are impressively short considering the size of the plan and their cargo load capacity.

When I was stationed at NAS ADAK our station plane was and old C-130 that USED to be a FAT ALBERT.

I rode it home to Anchorage one weekend,,,,, they placed forward facing non-reclining seats in it.

I agree with Josh, worse flight I ever did have.

I rode a C 141 from Adak to Anchorage once....
Web troop seating along the side and half pallets in place in the middle.
COMFY AS HECK! Best flight ever!
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: 7F24 on June 17, 2011, 04:30:20 AM
I rode in a C141 shoulder to shoulder in the cargo nets with a full load of pallets from Naples to Rota to Philly...not so comfy after 4 or 5 hours.
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: mirjo on June 19, 2011, 08:55:24 AM
I didn't know until seeing this post what type of plane it was flying so low (nor the nostalgia it evoked) I did fear for a few minutes, however that there might be an MCI in Fairfax,  when this plane could barely be seen through the trees flying over Hillcrest Farm/Huntville Rd as it circled around the area a couple of times!
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: 501morty on June 19, 2011, 09:12:13 PM
Everyone was correct; it was a C-130 Hercules.  I have been in the Military for 18 years and just recently had the opportunity to execute a training mission in my home state.  It could not have happened without lots of help from my father; Buck.  He is a retired SMSgt from VTANG. Thanks Dad, Happy Fathers Day!  Vermont provides a unique training environment, in that it offers both mountainous terrain as well as flat lands.  To the folks that were frightened, you can rest assured  our training mission was executed safely and with professionalism.  Without the great training we receive, we would not be the well prepared armed forces our nation expects of us.   Take care Fairfax; I can not  wait to be a resident again when this part of my life is over.   See you soon.  For the kids that saw us above, stay in the books, study hard, and you can do anything you put your mind to!
Title: Re: I Know We Have Airplane Specialists On This Forum
Post by: Mike Raburn on June 21, 2011, 01:29:38 AM
Quote from: 7F24 on June 17, 2011, 04:30:20 AM
I rode in a C141 shoulder to shoulder in the cargo nets with a full load of pallets from Naples to Rota to Philly...not so comfy after 4 or 5 hours.

Naples, Italy to Rota, Spain,  to Philly in 5 hours?
5 Hours?