before I put up my first tower 30 years ago I was warned about just such things
in this area. so I called the local base and gave the operations officer my
coordinates and told him the tower would be up the next weekend. sure enough a
flight of A-10's came through, did a few circles, and went on their business.
they were regular visitors until the local wing was upgraded, now I never see
their replacements. but it sure was interesting to be able to wave at the
pilots as they circled you on the tower. more recently we had a c-130 coming
through usually late in the evening, he scares me because he comes right over a
small ridge and you can barely hear him before he is right on top of you... I
have never gotten any of the bases that were suggested as sources to admit it
was one of theirs, but after a few calls it seemed to go away... I didn't
really want to stop them, I just wanted to make sure they knew there was a 190'
tower on their normal path.
Sep 18, 2014 02:30:49 PM, k4wi@earthlink.net wrote:
Looking at the W9ZUC incident and the clip below it about the
duster/tower made me think back about several incidents with mine. I
live directly in a MOA (military operating area) and 20 or so years ago
maybe more a F4 blew over my tower while I was working at the top
exceeding the speed of sound. He put a sonic boom on me which i would
have jumped off if i had not been securely fastened to the tower.
Normally it is illegal to create a sonic boom over the continental US
but they had a waiver in order to re-certify the F4's before giving them
to the national guard. this turned out to be pretty regular for the
next several months. Another time I was up at daylight standing on my
porch looking at my 140' tower which was hidden in fog from about 50 ft
and up when i could hear helicopters coming my way. I could tell that
they were heading right at my tower. They were flying right at the
bottom edge of the fog. They came into my view a couple of hundred ft
from the tower. One broke left; the other went right. I thought was
going to witness a big one for a minute! Scary! 73's Cort K4WI
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