So the Army has been kinda busy......

[Duke Dillio]

On the UH-60 thing, I remember scraping up a general off a mountain in the ROK.  It was the same year that the entire chain of command for the LRS unit there was relieved after they killed a KATUSA and another soldier on a jump.  Both guys landed in a river and there was no water team on the ground.

I've been in two Blackhawk "incidents."  Fortunately noone was injured in either case but very disturbing to me.  I wouldn't bee too upset to never have to fly in one ever again....

[Hawk200]

Aviation is enherently dangerous, both to the crews and those on the ground, be it military or general aviation. Letting your awareness slip for even a few seconds will, at best, leave you maimed for life. The obvious worst is death. It's not just limited to 'Hawks.

You guys in Chinooks are spoiled  . You rarely have to worry about walking into blades.

[Fireball]

We live under a low level military training route and are treated to the flyby of some sort of military aircraft almost daily. And I mean LOW, about 500-1000 AGL. Most days it is a C-17 or a flight of F-15s or 16s. We've even had a Blackhawk make an emergency landing in my hay field. About a year and a half ago I counted 16 C-17s fly over in formation, awesome.

But the latest has got to be the coolest. I was sitting here a couple of evenings ago when I heard an unfamiliar aircraft reveberation, I stepped outside in time to spot three V-22 Ospreys fly over. Very cool!

[DNall]

It was definately cool, don't get me wrong. But we live in a small community. It's rare to even see a LifeFlight bird, let alone an Army bird flying. No one roped in my yard, but I was ready to get out of the way in case they started to fire that huge gun sticking out of the front

What you saw was probably an MH-60 and that "huge gun sticking out of the front" was a refuling probe.

GC

Can you imagine the recoil though? 

Aviation is enherently dangerous, both to the crews and those on the ground, be it military or general aviation. Letting your awareness slip for even a few seconds will, at best, leave you maimed for life. The obvious worst is death. It's not just limited to 'Hawks.

Think 60s are bad? Don't walk in front of my gun cause I can't absolutely guarantee it won't go off or explode that double feed w/o me touching anything, don't touch nothin cause you'll get a real nice shock and the rockets might do funny stuff. Other then that just stay the hell out of the way cause I can't see crap around the airframe & nothing I can do about it anyway.

[Duke Dillio]

What are you flying DNall?  Apaches?

[Hawk200]

What are you flying DNall?  Apaches?

He's in school to drive ( ) Apache's. Not much else in the Army has guns and rockets.

[cap235629]

What are you flying DNall?  Apaches?

He's in school to drive ( ) Apache's. Not much else in the Army has guns and rockets.

OH-58 Kiowa.......

[cadet cmsgt dotson]

i live were they do mountain traning missions and  f-16s fly over so low that you can wave at the ploit and he can wave back its super cool and just a week ago there was a blackhawk go above my house with the side doors open i saw the 2 polits and gunners

[Hawk200]

What are you flying DNall?  Apaches?

He's in school to drive ( ) Apache's. Not much else in the Army has guns and rockets.

OH-58 Kiowa.......

Delta models, and just barely.

I'd bet money that if DNall was in training for Kiowa's he wouldn't even mention that he was a pilot. For some reason, a lot of people hate the Kiowa.

He may fly one of the TH-67's while he's down there, but that's as close as he's gonna be to flying a Kiowa.

[cap235629]

I was just pointing out another armed Army airframe.

[afgeo4]

I enjoy the sound of F-16's over my house regularly - especially now that they're ramping up night flying.   

Too bad in a few years, that sound will be gone for the silence of Reapers zipping around.   

Total silence, since from what I've read, the Reapers will be housed and launched from Ft. Drum, where a detachment from the 174th will be located. The take-off/landing and maintenance ops would take place at Drum, while mission pilot/sensor operator and unit ops/support would be located at Hancock. Reapers (nor any other UAVs) aren't allowed to operate out of public airports.

[afgeo4]

We live under a low level military training route and are treated to the flyby of some sort of military aircraft almost daily. And I mean LOW, about 500-1000 AGL. Most days it is a C-17 or a flight of F-15s or 16s. We've even had a Blackhawk make an emergency landing in my hay field. About a year and a half ago I counted 16 C-17s fly over in formation, awesome.

But the latest has got to be the coolest. I was sitting here a couple of evenings ago when I heard an unfamiliar aircraft reveberation, I stepped outside in time to spot three V-22 Ospreys fly over. Very cool!

You mean this? No folks, this isn't modified. It's a flight of 15 Globemaster IIIs fromn Charleston AFB, SC over the city of Charleston, SC for a training exercise.

[Hawk200]

I was just pointing out another armed Army airframe.

Not all OH-58's are armed, only a select few. Delta models are capable of being armed, and are commonly referred to as a Kiowa Warrior when they are.

The Kiowa is primarily a scout/observation helicopter.

The biggest difference is that all Apaches have guns, and/or rockets and missiles. Some Blackhawks are armed, but the airframe is not primarily an armed one. Same with the Kiowa.

[DNall]

What are you flying DNall?  Apaches?

yep. be a while yet before I get to start shooting things. 

[JohnKachenmeister]

I live near Patrick AFB.  The only flying unit is the 920th Rescue (USAFR-- C-130's and MH-60 Pave Hawks).  There is a C-17 that makes regular visits, and sometimes Tweets from Georgia come by on training flights.

Back when we had an aero club, it made flying interesting.

[♠SARKID♠]

You mean this? No folks, this isn't modified. It's a flight of 15 Globemaster IIIs fromn Charleston AFB, SC over the city of Charleston, SC for a training exercise.

That picture is screams awesome.  Isn't there a wake turbulence issue though?

[SDF_Specialist]

Talking to my father in law this evening. He was telling me that he saw two F-16s and an A-10 flyby his house, then a KC-135 (which I got to see) flyby not too long after that.

[PHall]

You mean this? No folks, this isn't modified. It's a flight of 15 Globemaster IIIs fromn Charleston AFB, SC over the city of Charleston, SC for a training exercise.

That picture is screams awesome.  Isn't there a wake turbulence issue though?

Notice the horizontal and vertical separations between the aircraft. (It's not a visual illusion.)
There are set vertical and horizontal separations for aircraft in formation. (AFI 11-17 Vol III)
With Station Keeping Equipment (SKE) you can do this in IFR conditions and even at night.

[SAR-EMT1]

From everything Ive heard the Globemaster has the most computerized controls of almost any airframe (save maybe the new Raptor)

The thing is really good at SF work.

[Stonewall]

Here at Lackland AFB, there always seems to be a C-5 flying in circles.  My guess is they can only get one of the 7 or so birds to fly at a time so they take turns behind the wheel. 

I remember standing by for take off out of Indonesia when a C-5 came in over us bringing in relief supplies for the tsunami.  We were in a G-4 and I felt like a toy airplane next to the real deal.

Growing up in a navy town and 2 or 3 miles from an ARNG blackhawk and apache unit, it never got old seeing those bad boys fly over my house.  Just makes you feel good.