Timeline for Help identifying small low-flying aircraft over western US?
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| Jul 29, 2023 at 18:33 | comment | added | nobody | The odds that you saw the same aircraft in both locations are extremely remote. You probably saw multiple instances of the same type. | |
| Jul 28, 2023 at 5:28 | answer | added | Davidw | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 27, 2023 at 11:42 | comment | added | Fattie | You may wish to edit your title - that is a HUGE aircraft!!! | |
| Jul 27, 2023 at 3:35 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 26, 2023 at 19:49 | comment | added | DetectionAndRanging | Probably will conclude that I misjudged the altitude, thanks for the help everybody! | |
| Jul 26, 2023 at 19:47 | vote | accept | DetectionAndRanging | ||
| Jul 26, 2023 at 19:40 | comment | added | quiet flyer | Well, it wasn't a toy (radio-controlled, perhaps electric) model of a C-130 was it? Perhaps in "giant scale" so that it looked like a real a/c? (Just kidding-- mostly!) PS @Chris-RegenerateResponse -- yes just as w/ birds, size of flying a/c can be deceptively hard to judge of altitude is not known, and vice versa, unless the thing in question has already been definitively identified-- | |
| Jul 26, 2023 at 19:40 | comment | added | Chris | @quietflyer I expect from their description of it as "small" that it was in fact higher up than OP thought it was. | |
| Jul 26, 2023 at 19:38 | comment | added | DetectionAndRanging | That's why I initially dismissed considering it a C-130: it seemed too quiet and too small, even though the shape looked similar! | |
| Jul 26, 2023 at 19:34 | comment | added | quiet flyer | First time I've ever heard a C-130 described as quiet! Usually their distinctively loud sound is one of the main give-aways! Maybe that's somehow unique to when the pass over at higher altitude-- you get that all-pervasive gently throbbing roar-- PS re "First time I've ever heard a C-130 described as quiet!"-- or small!! | |
| Jul 26, 2023 at 19:31 | answer | added | user22445 | timeline score: 29 | |
| S Jul 26, 2023 at 19:28 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jul 26, 2023 at 19:28 | history | asked | DetectionAndRanging | CC BY-SA 4.0 |