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Anyone else hearing the big plane overhead?
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ItzKatzTime
Beach Fanatic
We live in Dune Allen and we have heard all kinds of loud noises. The other day I heard a number of "bombs" and my whole house shook.
In fact I now have three long large cracks in my tile inside and some large cracks in the concrete on the back porch. Talk about a house "settling"....this is rediculous! 
Has anyone else experience these cracks in the floor or around the edges of the house????
I know these noises have been addressed on another thread....but this one was just so convenient. Thanks SGB!
Kat
scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
Per the Walton Sun:
Authorities mum on military maneuvers over Mack Bayou
August 01, 2007
Gwen Break
gwen_break@link.freedom.com Residents of the Mack Bayou are were shaken out of their beds and sent running into the street by a low flying military plane around 8 p.m., Tuesday evening, and then again around 1 a.m. the same evening.
eanine Brock who lives on My Way, said she and her four children were terrified by the low flying plane.
?The lights (from the plane) were shining in my daughter?s bedroom and when it went over the house, my fireplace started whistling,? said Brock.
Brock said she immediately telephoned the Walton County Sheriff?s Office and was told by the dispatcher that more than 100 calls had been received. She was referred to a Mr. Benjamin at Eglin Air Force Base.
?This Mr. Benjamin confirmed it was one of their planes,? said Brock. ?But then he said, ?Well, what do you expect? You knew it was a military zone when you moved in.??
Brock said she and her family had lived in the area several years but had never seen or heard anything like this.
She said after the initial pass, her family went outside as did most of her neighbors.
?You know how sound travels at Buck Bayou. You could here people saying, ?Here it comes again,? when it made a second pass,? she said.
Rick Thomason, publisher of The Walton Sun and Destin Log, said he was watching TV when the low flying planed came over his house.
?It shook the walls and moved the pictures on the wall,? he said. ?I muted the TV and waited to hear the crash.
?Of the 24 houses on my street, probably people from 12 of them were standing out in the street,? he said.
Other people around South Walton reported seeing low flying helicopters near the bay around the same time.
A spokesman for Eglin Air Force Base Public Information Office confirmed there was a test mission in progress Tuesday evening but said Eglin would only have been using helicopters.
A call to Hurlburt Air Force Base Public Information Office was answered by an answering machine.
A call to Lt. Eddie Farris of the Walton County?s Sheriff?s Office also went to an answering machine.
Messages were left for both parties but as of 10 a.m. Wednesday, neither one had returned the call.
Authorities mum on military maneuvers over Mack Bayou
August 01, 2007
Gwen Break
gwen_break@link.freedom.com Residents of the Mack Bayou are were shaken out of their beds and sent running into the street by a low flying military plane around 8 p.m., Tuesday evening, and then again around 1 a.m. the same evening.
eanine Brock who lives on My Way, said she and her four children were terrified by the low flying plane.
?The lights (from the plane) were shining in my daughter?s bedroom and when it went over the house, my fireplace started whistling,? said Brock.
Brock said she immediately telephoned the Walton County Sheriff?s Office and was told by the dispatcher that more than 100 calls had been received. She was referred to a Mr. Benjamin at Eglin Air Force Base.
?This Mr. Benjamin confirmed it was one of their planes,? said Brock. ?But then he said, ?Well, what do you expect? You knew it was a military zone when you moved in.??
Brock said she and her family had lived in the area several years but had never seen or heard anything like this.
She said after the initial pass, her family went outside as did most of her neighbors.
?You know how sound travels at Buck Bayou. You could here people saying, ?Here it comes again,? when it made a second pass,? she said.
Rick Thomason, publisher of The Walton Sun and Destin Log, said he was watching TV when the low flying planed came over his house.
?It shook the walls and moved the pictures on the wall,? he said. ?I muted the TV and waited to hear the crash.
?Of the 24 houses on my street, probably people from 12 of them were standing out in the street,? he said.
Other people around South Walton reported seeing low flying helicopters near the bay around the same time.
A spokesman for Eglin Air Force Base Public Information Office confirmed there was a test mission in progress Tuesday evening but said Eglin would only have been using helicopters.
A call to Hurlburt Air Force Base Public Information Office was answered by an answering machine.
A call to Lt. Eddie Farris of the Walton County?s Sheriff?s Office also went to an answering machine.
Messages were left for both parties but as of 10 a.m. Wednesday, neither one had returned the call.
Smiling JOe
SoWal Expert
Interesting story. Last week, I noticed a few low flying F16s (I think) flying over Grayton, several times. I also notice one of those big@ss battle ship helicopters flying low enough to hit a kite this past weekend. I kind of had an idea that some different training was going on, since that is very uncommon.
Smiling JOe
SoWal Expert
More like the sound of tax dollars being spent. Cha-ching$$$$$ In some parts of the Country, if they pulled that stunt, people would break out the guns to defend themselves. I can't say that I would blame them.Friends of mine call those noises... "The Sound of Freedom."
As for the military guy who said that people know they bought in a military training area, I would say he is full of crap. No one told me that when I bought, and I have never heard of the military training so low to the ground over Mack Bayou. Like the Air Force doesn't own enough property north of the Bay for all of that craziness.
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BeachSiO2
Beach Fanatic
Did you feel like you were in Vieques? I guess that's one of the benefits we can look forward to now that some of those missions will be brought to NW Florida. All I can say is those of you with anti-W stickers better watch out, that might have been a reconnaisance mission for future bombing runs :shock: ;-)
SGB
Beach Fanatic
There were about 7 passes made between 12:30 and 1:30 by a big plane with 4 engines (C-17?). They were fllying less than 1000 feet above us. The first pass woke me up and we were waiting to hear a crash or an explosion. After the first 4 passes we went out on our dock on Mack Bayou to watch it come around again. It was pretty frightening. I have never heard anything like this. Rick Thomason lives down the street from me. I guess we should have gone out in the street to join the party!
beachmouse
Beach Fanatic
We normally get a good amount of military noise in my neighborhood, but there was something different going on the other night-very large plane very low overhead, and that kind of engine noise you get when they're coming in for landing even though we're several miles from the Eglin east-west runway.
Cheering472
SoWal Insider
Sounds scary, and do they really need to do that at night?
You want to ask why. but you know they are over there saying,"You Can't HANDLE THE TRUTH!!" with that nasty snarl.
sorry, I couldn't resist.
You want to ask why. but you know they are over there saying,"You Can't HANDLE THE TRUTH!!" with that nasty snarl.
sorry, I couldn't resist.