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C-130 and a strange plane. (Read 234 times)

Mar 2^nd, 2006 at 5:52pm

gijake Offline
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I'm not sure if this goes here, but anyway, At school today, I was playing football (American) and I saw a US Coast Gaurd C-130 fly over the field. I thought this was cool, and being the only one of my friends who knows anything about aviation, I thought it was a little strange, seeing how there is no air-base anywhere neer the school. Then about 15 minuets later, I saw a really wierd plane. it looked almost like the Beachcraft Starship (http://www.bobholland.com/fs/aircraft.htm), but the engins came forward off the wings a little bit.
Kinda cool

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Reply #1 - Mar 2^nd, 2006 at 6:43pm

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Piaggio Avanti, probably. Heres a wkipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_P.180_Avanti

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Reply #2 - Mar 2^nd, 2006 at 7:02pm

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Remember the C-130 had a pretty significant range.

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Reply #3 - Mar 2^nd, 2006 at 7:36pm

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It was flying East, I live on the west cost of florida, and there is a closer Airport than somthing on the Atlantic side. And the other plane was a Piaggio Avanti.

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Reply #4 - Mar 2^nd, 2006 at 8:14pm

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USCG aircraft have turned up in some wierd places-I've seen a USCG Dauphin over my school, heading east. I live about 20 miles to the northwest of Philly, so what it was doing in our area was beyond me.

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Reply #5 - Mar 2^nd, 2006 at 10:01pm

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Just goes to show the extent of the armed forces.

The other day I was sitting down in my basement browsing SimV and I heard a low rumble. Lo and behold, I go outside and it's a CH-53 Super Stallion with USMC markings. There's no USMC base around here, let alone one that handles CH-53's.

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Isn't there a Coast Guard base in south Philly by the shipyard? Also there's one in Mays Landing, NJ and Cape May, NJ.

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