And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Having been overflown/near-flown by one in the wild (and looking down on it from above at the time) 1) you don't hear it coming until it's nearly there 2) when you do hear it, the engine noise sounds like it's going the other way 3) for exercises, they had a T-38 chase flying several hundred feet above and behind it, slightly offset, likely because that's theonly way the E-3 flying exercise control could tell roughly where it was.
We were building a movie set in the dry lake north of Baker, and the plane was over the mid-valley, actually below our elevation at the road. Appeared to be sneaking south to north into a Red Flag from Nellis. Hoovered in towards us obliquely, did a shallow turn northeast, and popped over a distant ridge and dropped back down. When we noticed it coming, and for its entire transit, it was at an altitude where you could have hit it with a dirt clod from a Wrist Rocket.
No shadow? How does it do that?!
ReplyDeleteThey are visually tricky. The times I've seen them in flight my brain has gone "what the heck is that". Especially true if you first see it edge on.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like Groom Lake. Lots of strange things happen at Groom Lake.
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Having been overflown/near-flown by one in the wild (and looking down on it from above at the time)
ReplyDelete1) you don't hear it coming until it's nearly there
2) when you do hear it, the engine noise sounds like it's going the other way
3) for exercises, they had a T-38 chase flying several hundred feet above and behind it, slightly offset, likely because that's theonly way the E-3 flying exercise control could tell roughly where it was.
We were building a movie set in the dry lake north of Baker, and the plane was over the mid-valley, actually below our elevation at the road. Appeared to be sneaking south to north into a Red Flag from Nellis. Hoovered in towards us obliquely, did a shallow turn northeast, and popped over a distant ridge and dropped back down. When we noticed it coming, and for its entire transit, it was at an altitude where you could have hit it with a dirt clod from a Wrist Rocket.