[TowerTalk] planes and towers

[David Robbins]

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 at 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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