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.
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.
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…
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.
The engines weren’t extended forward of the wing like that when it went overhead so probably not a C-17.
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.
Hmm, curious…I think everything in the USAF’s transport fleet has that engine forward design…
C-5:
C-141:
C-17:
Hell, even the C-130 (which I know you say it wasn’t):
Now I’m really curious to know what it was…mostly because I love me some airplanes…
Do you remember any other details?
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.
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.
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.
Wife Fail.
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.
Mike B FTW, sorta.
LAFENGAS wins this thread.
Hands down. I’m super jealous…
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/multimedia/gnnmultimedia_slideshow_245205206?position=9
I guess it had to be a C5.
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. 
^ haha
Fort Niagara:
Weeeeeeeeeeee
200ft above the water:
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.