Tinker AFB is local to me. Tinker is a huge maintenance and repair depot, so I get to see all kinds of aircraft flying around. BTW here in landlocked Oklahoma, Tinker AFB is the home base for the Navy E6 aircraft.

Not too long ago, I was driving on I-240 when I heard a LOUD roar, I looked up and saw a B1 on final approach, I'm guessing 500 feet up. Loved it!

I was on the last day of a 3-day trip MANY years ago. We flew into LBB or AMA (somewhere up in west Texas) and then had about a 3.5 hour sit before deadheading back to IAH. During that sit time, I watched a B1B do touch and go's for 2 solid hours. Made that sit time just ZOOM by...

About a dozen years ago my wife and I went to an Air show at the Chattanooga airport featuring the Blue Angels and a Tora Tora Tora reactment...also a low fly by over the runway by a B1 bomber...slow pass with wings out. It went out of sight...about 15 minutes later it came back over the runway on an oil burner run with the wings swept back taking everyone by surprise...that was the loudest, coolest and most impressive Aircraft I’ve ever seen...it just looked smooth

We stayed at the RV park on Ellsworth AFB (Rapid City) several times. Loved watching the B1Bs taking off, especially at night.

If I may do a slight thread drift, but can a DC3 really go 427 knots at 38,000 feet?

I just ran across this one on ADSBexchange dot com, and he seems to have flown non stop, so far anyway, from NAS Norfolk and is currently over SE Utah. He's showing CNV4921.

I always thought DC3's were a lot slower and didn't fly nearly that high. What he's doing now seems like Jet performance to me.

Edit: Currently just about North of ST George UT, if anyone wants to look.

EDIT AGAIN: Well that was weird. After it got to the Fresno CA area, the name on the display started changing back and forth from CNV4921 to ATTACK, then just before landing at NAS Lemoore CA it changed to A10. I'm going to assume it was an A10 all this time, that would account for the performance exhibited, except why would an Air Force A10 from one NAS to another NAS? It never identified with MLAT, which I think is the military version, instead it always showed ADS-B.

Weird. I wonder what actually flew, was this a mistake in input or something more? Who knows. Weird.

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Was stationed at two buses with the B1, Grand Forks (no longer a B1 base), and Ellsworth. Whicked airplane to say the least.
At weapons school the fighters would see them running low and fast and dive in on them only to go bingo fuel trying to catch it.
You want loud? That's the aircraft.

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If I may do a slight thread drift, but can a DC3 really go 427 knots at 38,000 feet?

No, it can't.

Unpressurized, they seldom climbed to their service ceiling of 23,000', and their typical cruise speed was closer to 150 knots.

Cruise altitude is more commonly 7,000 to 12,000'.

Well that rascal is back, CNV4921 the supposedly DC3 is now hauling ass from West to East at 41,000 feet at 471 knots, right by Lubbock TX.

I'm just killing some time looking around on ADS-B website, seeing how little is flying. Amazing what you can find.
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Agreed about how impressive the Bone is. I worked at Ellsworth (the EL on the B-1Bs tail) for 13 years before I retired. I saw many many flights ops over that time.

July 2006 driving north bound on interstate Cape Garauda , Mo. had air show off to my left. As we passed the far east end of the show a B2 (flying wing) doing low and slow manuvers. Was low enough that as he made a turn I could clearly see the cockpit window glass. Massive aircraft. How something so big and heavy able to stay airborne. ....................drill sgt.

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I was probably in attendance there as well. Put many miles in traveling to Dayton, Cleveland, Osh Kosh, etc. All the shows within driving distance of Chicago. I only remember a couple B1B appearances and I bet this was one of them.

I recall the F14 flying a couple times too in Ohio just can't recall exactly which shows. That was a more rare one to see also.

Hell yeah man! I was there one year when the F14 had a mid-flight engine flame out, right over the center of the field. I don't know what caused it, but the pilot was able to calmly land the plane in short order.

I saw my first B-1 while driving through the Davis Mountains of west Texas. I was driving through the area when one came screaming low through the mountains, rolling abruptly side to side. It startled the heck out of me, and i remember it seemed strange to see such a large aircraft making such quick maneuvers.

I used to travel on I-20 through west Texas a lot so when I was in the area of Abilene, which is the home of Dyess AFB, I’d see B-1s flying around the area. They, like most of our military planes, are neato to watch. If anyone looks at the flight line of Dyess AFB on google maps, you will see tons of B-1s sitting there.

Being in the USMC, I’ve seen most of our military aircraft Up close and personal, but it was always a treat to see something unusual like F-111s, F-117s and B-2s. I even saw some F-105s landing at our base once, and I thought that was too cool. I’ve got to tour the SR-71 and even the U-2 back in ‘86 in Okinawa and Korea.

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Originally posted by ftttu:
I saw my first B-1 while driving through the Davis Mountains of west Texas. I was driving through the area when one came screaming low through the mountains, rolling abruptly side to side. It startled the heck out of me, and i remember it seemed strange to see such a large aircraft making such quick maneuvers.

I used to travel on I-20 through west Texas a lot so when I was in the area of Abilene, which is the home of Dyess AFB, I’d see B-1s flying around the area. They, like most of our military planes, are neato to watch. If anyone looks at the flight line of Dyess AFB on google maps, you will see tons of B-1s sitting there.

Being in the USMC, I’ve seen most of our military aircraft Up close and personal, but it was always a treat to see something unusual like F-111s, F-117s and B-2s. I even saw some F-105s landing at our base once, and I thought that was too cool. I’ve got to tour the SR-71 and even the U-2 back in ‘86 in Okinawa and Korea.

It wasn't this one that landed at Midland was it? https://www.airforcetimes.com/...ing-flown-to-tinker/