Dull Men's Club

I was motorbiking with some friends near the Grand Canyon on old mining roads many years ago, and we had 2 Blackhawks that must have been using us for sighting practice, because for about an hour we'd see them pop up over the hills pointed at us, then go down and come up in a different spot, again pointed towards us.

Eventually they flew directly over us as we're bombing down a valley, and I could see someone waving at us through the window of one chopper, then they banked hard and roared off.

It was kinda neat, but a little disconcerting to realize there were probably (safed) guns pointing at us for that time.

Given the reported start of a build up the other side of the border: I'm not sure how dull this is

Once I was biking home over the Golden Gate bridge and I saw two Osprey VTOLs fly under the bridge, pretty close to where I was standing. It was pretty awesome.

Now if there's one thing you can be sure of, it's that nothing is more powerful than a young boy's wish. Except an Apache helicopter. An Apache helicopter has machine guns AND missiles. It is an unbelievably impressive complement of weaponry. An absolute death machine.

- Ted, 2012

...one afternoon about thirty years ago, an apache attack helicopter casually hovered into view directly outside my window, scanned its turret back-and-forth inside my office, and gently settled onto the open field outside: it was show-and-tell day at his daughter's daycare next door, we learned afterward...

Back during the Afghanistan war, Stealth Bombers coming back from missions would use Fenway Park in Boston as a waypoint.

One day a buddy and I were sitting in his car at a traffic light when we looked up and saw one fly over.

One of the cooler things I've ever seen.

I have helis flying over all day every day (bar Sunday), being under a major helicopter flight path. We get the odd plane or light aircraft going over too.

I was sat wondering wtf a droning noise was - too quiet for a heli, too low a tone for a commercial aircraft - looked online at it was the US Navy heading up to Norway for whatever reason.

The Eurofighter Typhoon has a real unique engine note too, even at a couple of tens of thousands of feet up, it still makes you wonder "hey wtf is that sound?"

It's the first sign of the rapture! Soon people will be disappearing all over your neighborhood!

I only see the NH-90 helicopters a few times per month. They make a very loud sound.