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What a <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">distinct</span></span> sound a C5A Galaxy makes? :wink:
 
Yes.
 
When we played golf around Fort Lewis. You had to stop what ever you where doing until they passed over.
 
"That's an AK47!" "How do you know?" "It makes a VERY distinct sound when being fired at YOU!" I know you all will know this one. :smile:
 
Silverghost said:
I know you all will know this one. :smile:
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Mebby so, doesn't mean we're gonna swap spit in the shower though.
 
I was at a friends farm out in West By God Virginia. We heard a jet aircraft sound that just went on and on and on. Looked around, and no aircraft to be seen ???? Suddenly from over the ridge behind his house a C5A popped up. Scared me pretty well, as he did not clear the ridge by more than 100ft, and the ridge is not that tall behind the house. I could see the aircrew in the cockpit clearly. I guess they were doing some "nap of the earth" practice, but I had no idea that they did that in aluminum overcast like that. Very Impressive!
 
Things just seem to ~HANG~ in the air, too. So big there's no real "frame of reference" as to speed and altitude.

Altogether amazing, IMO. And I've logged a TON of hours in 'em as "aircrew", too.
 
jessebogan said:
I was at a friends farm out in West By God Virginia. We heard a jet aircraft sound that just went on and on and on. Looked around, and no aircraft to be seen ???? Suddenly from over the ridge behind his house a C5A popped up. Scared me pretty well, as he did not clear the ridge by more than 100ft, and the ridge is not that tall behind the house. I could see the aircrew in the cockpit clearly. I guess they were doing some "nap of the earth" practice, but I had no idea that they did that in aluminum overcast like that. Very Impressive!
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The WVANG based at Martinsburg (169th(?) TAG) has C-5s. The ship you saw was probably theirs. I taught some aircraft maintenance courses over there a while ago, but they still had C-130s then. But heard that they were getting C-5s soon.

Before the 130s, they had Connies. One of them is at Udvar-Hazy being restored by ex-West Virginia Air Guard (still Air Guard?) guys in their colors.
 
The eeriest sound I remember made by an aircraft was the F4's as they made touch and go landings a Miramar NAS. The howling an screeching was something else, especially at night, my girl friend would snuggle as we listened. Three years later, I was wearing the uniform, not an air dale, just a cruiser and destroyer man.

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