Don't have any sky shots, but you can hear them coming and see the shadow cross the driveway ... had to run for cover !
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Those Hueys were a bit low
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StevenFromTexas
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Off topic, but someone did an incredible concrete job! 
CaptainCrunch
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Fun fact. The shadow of an aircraft caused by the sun will be the size of the aircraft regardless of the aircraft's altitude.
Yep.
The difference between 1,000 ft. and 20,000 ft. isn't much when compared to 93 million miles.
I live about 30mi SE of Travis AFB in California. For about 5 days in a row, there was 2 or 3 flights of fighter jets coming from the direction of Travis, and bookin' it towards the SE Very high, very fast, and VERY loud. My wife, son, and son-in-law all saw at least one flight, But me, the airplane guy, never did see one. SON-OF-A .......!
Travis is a big logistics base and has no fighter aircraft based there. There is, however, an Air National Guard base in Fresno which is in the general direction they were headed. They fly F15's
Travis is a big logistics base and has no fighter aircraft based there. There is, however, an Air National Guard base in Fresno which is in the general direction they were headed. They fly F15's
I haven't researched this myself, but there are posts on the Internet that disagree. I can naturally find a post that disagrees with anything, it's just this one sounds pretty credible. The argument is that the theory would be true only if the sun were a point source (it isn't), and there were no atmospheric effects. In that case, the theoretical geometric answer would be true. The shadows would also have perfectly defined edges, which this one doesn't.
Disagreement post to read if you really want your head to hurt: Is the Shadow of an Airplane the Same Size as the Airplane?
Consider that this is a still image taken from a paused video made by an IP camera of a moving object.......
I was there, on the backside of the property when they visited. They were just above the tree tops, you could feel the noise. National guard team, either doing some training, looking for a medicinal growth field (of which we have a few), or just having a bit of fun 
The noise from a CH-47 Chinook lowering a pallet full of 500 lb. bombs to the flight deck of an aircraft carrier below is deafening. The extreme mechanical percussion from the rotor blades when under such stress from all the weight it's carrying will practically render you speechless and thoughtless in minutes if you're not wearing adequate hearing protection. It's like someone slapping their cupped hands on your ears on both sides of your head at the same time while also hitting you on the top of your head with a rubber mallet.
Yes, I now wear VA-supplied hearing aids.
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