09-12-2006, 09:30 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: 555 Saddledome Rise SE
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Crazy loud plane overhead tonight (tuesday)
Did anyone hear that plane fly overhead just now (9:30)? What the hell could it have been. It's not nearly cold enough for a commercial jet's sound to carry that far.
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09-12-2006, 09:32 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Calgary, AB
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I'm in Bankview and I just heard it, sounded like something you would hear up North.
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09-12-2006, 09:33 PM
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Last night (mon) I heard a really loud jet and looked out and saw some kind of fighter plane. Thats my guess.
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09-12-2006, 09:34 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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I'm in South Calgary and I heard it to ... sounded like a fighter plane to me as well.
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09-12-2006, 09:35 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: 555 Saddledome Rise SE
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Denmark must be invading that remote Arctic island...
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09-12-2006, 09:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Violating Copyrights
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Heard it in Evergreen.
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09-12-2006, 09:40 PM
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i've seen more than one fighter plane in calgary in the last week or two, there's exercises going on right now (mostly naval), though most of them ended at the beginning of september.
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09-12-2006, 09:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
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sure thing man...
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09-12-2006, 09:58 PM
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Interesting. We've had a substantial increase in military air traffic down here too, and flying a lot lower than normal. Very strange to hear something like that from a Canadian city.
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09-12-2006, 10:23 PM
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It was probably a CF-18.
They've been around Edmonton a lot this summer as well. Really cool to see.
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09-12-2006, 10:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
We saw some sort of jet last Friday as well. As much as it is disturbing, maybe some of us westerners should get more used to seeing things like that as opposed to just the middle east, Africa and Central America.
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Why?
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09-12-2006, 11:30 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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When those jets did the fly-over at the labour day game i nearly.. well.. got excited in my pants..
When i lived in england, i used to sit and watch the RAF fighter jets take off and do manouvers... i love fighter jets.
But the closest base is Cold lake isn't it?
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09-12-2006, 11:32 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Calgary
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Sounded like a CF-18 for sure. One flew over my house about a month ago. Scared the **** out of me, damn cool to see out of the blue though.
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09-12-2006, 11:37 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Vancouver
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I'm in Oakridge and I didn't hear anything. Maybe i'm deaf, but I did hear the CF-18 at the labour day game. I think you could have heard that sucker even if you were deaf.
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09-12-2006, 11:40 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by worth
I'm in Oakridge and I didn't hear anything. Maybe i'm deaf, but I did hear the CF-18 at the labour day game. I think you could have heard that sucker even if you were deaf.
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There was 2! 
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09-13-2006, 12:06 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: up north (by the airport)
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I recall hearing there are aerospace defence electronic contractors based in Calgary that provide systems for the CF-18 fighter. That might explain sightings (or hearings) like this one. I live near the airport and have seen the fighter jets a few times in recent months.
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09-13-2006, 07:16 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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When flying to Winnipeg a week ago we had to wait to take off while another plane landed. (The pilot came on and told us so.) I said to myself "oh come on, we can beat him!" Then the plane landed and I saw it was a CF-18 and I thought it was a good thing we didn't cut him off; he could have blown us away.
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09-13-2006, 07:29 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Singapore
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayems
When i lived in england, i used to sit and watch the RAF fighter jets take off and do manouvers... i love fighter jets.
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This is off topic, but what you said reminded me of a couple years ago when my family went to my grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary in Scotland near the airbase where my grandfather was stationed during WWII as a Canadian bomber pilot on loan to the RAF. There is still an RAF air force base there, and at the pub a few of the local fly boys got talking to my grandfather about pilot stuff. It was really cool to see the interest and genuine admiration these British pilots had for an old WWII bomber (they were probably shocked to meet a survivor, since most bomber pilots lasted only a few missions let alone the whole war), and as a result I have a lot of respect for them. They were mostly middle-aged family men who each at some point had trained at Goose Bay or Cold Lake. This has nothing to do with the topic, but yeah... just wanted to share that.
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09-13-2006, 08:23 AM
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do you remember the name of that airbase, Icarus? My grandfather was stationed in Scotland as well, mear St Andrew's golf course, I think the base was called Leuchars or something like that.
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09-13-2006, 09:01 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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One of my roommates from university joined the airforce and was a Snowbird a couple years ago.
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