# Blue Angels in town? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 2, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011 "2009-09-02T17:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/21 "2009-09-03T06:02:44Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > Nope, because this was definitely a jet. > > C-130 is probably the one cargo plane I would recognize. k, you only mentioned “plane”. The C130 was in the air though about 45mins after the blue angels. The C130 is a TurboProp… you can get a very high pitch from the turbine, especially during a hard bank. Usually, the props drown it out though. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/22 "2009-09-03T06:13:15Z")
This was low enough that I know it wasn’t a prop. We had to stop our conversation in the boat it was so damn loud. I could clearly see the four square shaped jet engines under the wings. I’m on the river one or two nights a week all summer so I’ve seen the 914th’s C130’s enough to know it wasn’t a C130. To be honest I don’t think there has been an evening this summer that I haven’t seen a C130. Now it’s starting to bother me because I really want to know what it was. You would know out of all the trips I took this summer it was the one night I forgot my SLR. Even a cell phone pic probably would have helped at this point though. EDIT: A coworker who lives in the falls just showed up and was able to confirm that something “different” was definitely in the sky last night after the F18’s. He too is used to the sound of the C130’s and though he didn’t actually see the jet I’m talking about he’s describing the same sound. ---
**Author:** ![mike125k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike125k/32/7282_2.png) [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/23 "2009-09-03T06:20:11Z")
C-5 maybe? ![http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Oceana2005/Highlights/C5Arriving.jpg](http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Oceana2005/Highlights/C5Arriving.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![comm\_perry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@comm\_perry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/comm_perry)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/24 "2009-09-03T07:06:46Z")
More likely a C-17…The C-5’s don’t get out too often and there’s not that many of them. There’s a TON of Globemaster’s though… ![http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/C-17large.jpg](http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/C-17large.jpg) ![http://www.msa-flagship.com/UserFiles/Image/C17_formation.jpg](http://www.msa-flagship.com/UserFiles/Image/C17_formation.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/25 "2009-09-03T07:09:09Z")
> [@mike125k](#): > > C-5 maybe? > > ![http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Oceana2005/Highlights/C5Arriving.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/9/c/9cd22a0a457482b5711ef14366c29b373d4da1c8.jpeg) Oh man…memories. Laying in the bubble of a C-130 watching a F16 get fueled mid air was one of the coolest things ever. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/26 "2009-09-03T07:20:46Z")
![http://aiaa.pr.erau.edu/past/Edwards98/C17_01.jpg](http://aiaa.pr.erau.edu/past/Edwards98/C17_01.jpg) The engines weren’t extended forward of the wing like that when it went overhead so probably not a C-17. ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/27 "2009-09-03T07:24:12Z")
You just posted a picture of a C17, and said that it didn’t look like a C17… EDIT - nvm you said they WEREN’T extended out like that. Got it. I’m curious as to what it was now too. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/28 "2009-09-03T07:26:28Z")
> [@Paulo](#): > > You just posted a picture of a C17, and said that it didn’t look like a C17… > > EDIT - nvm you said they WEREN’T extended out like that. Got it. > > I’m curious as to what it was now too. It sucks because it’s something I didn’t really commit to memory, so now I’m starting to doubt myself. Maybe the engines were more forward. All I know for sure is it’s wasn’t a C130. Maybe someone else will chime in who saw it and knows more about military cargo planes. ---
**Author:** ![comm\_perry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@comm\_perry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/comm_perry)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/29 "2009-09-03T07:33:56Z")
Hmm, curious…I think everything in the USAF’s transport fleet has that engine forward design… C-5: ![http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/08/0821_defense_stocks/image/6_c5_galaxy.jpg](http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/08/0821_defense_stocks/image/6_c5_galaxy.jpg) C-141: ![http://www.wingweb.co.uk/wingweb/img/400-C-141_Starlifter_445th_Airlift.jpg](http://www.wingweb.co.uk/wingweb/img/400-C-141_Starlifter_445th_Airlift.jpg) C-17: ![http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_C-17_Top_lg.jpg](http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_C-17_Top_lg.jpg) Hell, even the C-130 (which I know you say it wasn’t): ![http://thinkingmeat.net/images/blueangels.jpg](http://thinkingmeat.net/images/blueangels.jpg) Now I’m really curious to know what it was…mostly because I love me some airplanes… Do you remember any other details? ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/30 "2009-09-03T07:38:56Z")
I know, it’s bothering me too now. I’ve been surfing around google images, wikipedia and lots of aviation sites this morning. I just emailed my wife and our friend who was with us last night asking the what they remember about it. ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/31 "2009-09-03T07:44:54Z")
Haha. I hate when this shit happens. It’s like hearing a riddle that you’ve known before but can’t remember the answer anymore. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/32 "2009-09-03T07:47:01Z")
And the more you try to remember it by looking at pictures the more blurry the one in your head you’re trying to remember gets. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/33 "2009-09-03T07:48:49Z")
Wife Fail. > [@MyWife](#): > > Um, it was big, and it was a dark color, and it had wings. Sorry. About what I expected from my completely uninterested in aviation wife though. Crossing my fingers my history/military loving buddy has a little sharper memory. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/34 "2009-09-03T07:50:31Z")
Mike B FTW, sorta. > [@MikeB](#): > > it had little stabilizers on the tail, so I don’t think it was a C-130. Four engines, 2 per wing. It looked like it might have had doors on the bottom, but I’m not sure if those were just painted on, a trick of the eye, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Cavi\_Mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cavi_mike/32/5217_2.png) [@Cavi\_Mike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cavi_Mike)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/35 "2009-09-03T07:53:15Z")
LAFENGAS wins this thread. ---
**Author:** ![comm\_perry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@comm\_perry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/comm_perry)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/36 "2009-09-03T07:57:43Z")
> [@Cavi Mike](#): > > LAFENGAS wins this thread. Hands down. I’m super jealous… ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/37 "2009-09-03T08:19:45Z")
[http://www.niagara-gazette.com/multimedia/gnnmultimedia\_slideshow\_245205206?position=9](http://www.niagara-gazette.com/multimedia/gnnmultimedia_slideshow_245205206?position=9) I guess it had to be a C5. ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 9:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/38 "2009-09-03T09:03:22Z")
> [@LAFENGAS](#): > > ^ Have I mentioned to you in the past 20 minutes how much I hate you? 😉 PS: Thunderbirds are in town here this weekend. It’ll be my ninth sexytime. 👶 ---
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/39 "2009-09-03T09:54:56Z")
^ haha Fort Niagara: ![http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10401&stc=1&d=1251996773](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10401&stc=1&d=1251996773) Weeeeeeeeeeee ![http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10402&stc=1&d=1251996773](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10402&stc=1&d=1251996773) 200ft above the water: ![http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10403&stc=1&d=1251996773](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=10403&stc=1&d=1251996773) ---
**Author:** ![TMAN1985](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tman1985/32/5408_2.png) [@TMAN1985](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TMAN1985)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011/40 "2009-09-03T10:29:36Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > About 30 minutes to an hour or so after I saw them a huge 4 engined cargo jet took off and made a low bank pretty much right over us in the river at the north tip of GI. I don’t know military cargo planes like I do the fighters so I’m not sure what it was, only that it wasn’t one of the refuelers you constantly see practicing around the air base. C5 or C141B maybe? It was huge and making a ton of noise sounding nothing like any of the commercial jets taking off at the airport. It was a much more high pitched sound. That was a C-5. It was at Niagara, It did turn south towards the North Grand Island Bridge. It was at the airport for the grand opening of the Terminal. That’s the largest military cargo aircraft. It was en route back to Tennessee. It was a Tennessee Air National Guard C-5. EDIT: The largest U.S. Military cargo aircraft. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-angels-in-town/73011.md?page=3)