A low flying plane...

I live in a surrounding state and saw a large plane that looked like an older bomber or a cargo plane. It may have been the same plane. It was within the past 2 or 3 days. I saw it when I was going to work some time before noon. I work my own hours so I can not be very accurate. LOL I think it is because we are closer to Washington, D.C. and they are setting up special safe zones in the mountains in case there is a problem at the capital. They used to have the bomb shelter in the Greenbrier Hotel in WV. Since they are no longer going to use it in case of an emergency, YOU KNOW they are creating or have created another. For about 2 years we used to hear what sounded like a helicopter hovering around 1 o'clock pm every night. You couldn't see anything. Nothing. It didn't have any lights. But it was there. We are not the only ones to hear it. Rumor also has it that there is a test flight zone in the Appalachian area. So don't be surprised if you see something that appears to be a UFO. It will probably not have aliens piloting the ship.

My college is only 6 kms away from Air Force Academy, so all the routes of the trainee pilots pass from our college and I'm very much habituated to those sounds. Every now and then some Jets also come by to give the students a special training and twice every year, there is a pass our parade, so we get to see a lot of aerobatics performed by the aircrafts. It's fun watching this because I love to observe planes and try to understand them. bourne

When I was growing up I lived in a house that had a view of one of the runways at Glasgow airport,and a friend of the Family was a Pilot based there,so that got us the opportunity to look around some! Since then,I've always enjoyed airshows and such,seeing the planes up close..sounds like that may have been a C-135 Hercules transport that buzzed You,they have quite a distinctive sound to the engines,having 4 propellers,and can fly low and slow...In Northern Ireland,We've had Army helicopters overhead for Years,between small spotter machines to troop transports..I can recognise most of them by sound! I Live and work near Lough Erne,a large freshwater lake-last Week at work,after sunset,I noticed a Helicopter apparently searching over the water,and realised it was An Irish Coastguard Sea King SAR Helicopter..I read online next day a Young Girl suffered a spinal injury in a Wakeboarding accident,and the Coastguard got called in to help..As Long as the machine's under control,it can be exciting..if it's out of control,it's Scary!

When I lived in Maryland I wasn't too far from Andrews Air Force Base and some of those planes came in so low that we could read the numbers on the bottom! The take offs were worse because there were a lot of fighter jets on the base and, when they took off, they took off! Now that I live in nowhere Florida we rarely see any planes and, if we do, they're way up high.

I find it scary. Why are they flying that low. It has happened at my house once or twice. I just don't like it. It is like they are hiding from someone or something. Or looking for someone. I mean why do they get that close?

It sounds like it was something exciting to have something fly that low. It doesn't happen every day does it. Once in a while a low flying aircraft is amidst my area but I am not to worry. I wouldn't say that it is scary because I feel there is a big rarity that a plane would drop down on us.

Where my parents use to live they were really close to a military base (actually 3) and the planes would do fly overs all the time. There is actually regulations regarding military planes and how hihg/low, fast/slow they can fly over residential areas.

Hi foxyfire, hmmm...I have not tried this..I will be having mixed emotions if I am in your situation..LOL! I will be scared as well as excited! LOL! Scared why they are that low and thinking, do we have any bad people around us! Things like that! At the same time excited that the place is well guarded! LOL!

We have had those low flying planes here where I live and yes it's kinda scary to see for I always wonder "could there be something wrong and we'll hear about it on the news or something" A month ago we had one of those planes that take off out of air ports fly really low over our area and I could literally see the windows of the plane that's how low it was. It made the ground rumble I sat at my bay window just watching it slowly go by and thought "please go higher and make it to your destination" Now we have an air port that is 1/2 hour away from where I live and I know that planes move at a high rate of speed and need to start going lower as they approach their landing destination but this is to low to soon. So yeah I know the feeling it cn be exciting but scary at the same time.

I have never seen any low flying plane and if by chance I happened to see one I'll call for help. If it's some kind of a military plane then I'll avoid it and get as far as I could. i don't what their intentions are so maybe it's best to report the to the authorities and get as far as possible.

We sometimes get helicopters, when the hospital needs one and they happen to come in our way. Also planes/helicopters from the National Guard. But nothing as close as you described it. I had that experience, when I was in school. The school was on top of the hill with a small airfield on the next one and a lake and dam behind another hill. They had exercises to bomb the dam and also to parachute. They also used the school to fly down for pretend bomb droppings. We one year had a classroom in the top level of the building. A helicopter came in so close we thought he would come through the window. The pilot and copilot just grinned and waved at us. I mean, they were so close the blades just rotated barely above the building. If we would have opened a window they could have easily jumped inside. The school filed a complaint with the military after that event. After all, that was highly dangerous and a little mistake could have cost some of us our lifes. At the time, we of course thought it to be highly interesting and funny, lol. Anyhow, after that they stayed away from the school and used other buildings for 'practice' purposes.

where I am at it is more in the country now , so i dont see too many planes flying anymore . My parents live close to an airport , and sometimes we will see low flying planes and that can be scary . When I was in nyc and shea stadium they have an airport super close and every so often planes will just wizz by , and it will get super loud , now that is pretty scary and annoying

Well it's not very often but, it definitely freaks me out. It's been awhile. I live in NY and after 9/11 there was alot of helicopters flying around and military planes for a very long time. I live 45 minutes (by car) from NYC so the planes were flying close for an extended period of time. Whenever I heard the sound of plane after 9/11 I shook. It took a very long time to get over that feeling. I still have'nt flown since then. I was always terrified of flying and now you can just imagine. I am getting ready to take my first flight again to see my Mom in Florida. With all the new airport rules and regs I'll be freaked out for sure.