That reminds me of a trip when I was in college. I was returning to Kansas after summer break from Seattle, and was doing the 3 day drive. I was somewhere between Casper & Cheyenne driving my Toyota Corolla. Had a shoebox filled with tapes, window rolled down and the stereo cranked.
I had my camera, a Yashica FR II, with a 80-200 zoom on the seat next to me as I’d seen elk and antelope and always wanted to be ready. It was the middle of the afternoon. I don’t recall seeing a lot of cars on the road.
I don’t know what caused me to look, but I look over to the east (my left) and this B52 is about 100’ off the deck coming straight at me. Talk about an oh shit moment!
I let off the gas, hit the brakes and pulled off to the side of the road, grabbed my camera and it was gone. No where to be seen.
No doubt doing some low flying training, I’m sure they got a chuckle.
There was also a mock air-ground attack by an A10, and a couple of original stealth fighters on the ground. (They were supposed to fly, but had mechanical issues.)
Air Force One (minus President Clinton) also did a flyby.
Over the years I got to see some interesting flybys at the Cleveland and Chicago lake front airshows, including the first ever public flybys by the SR-71 Blackbird and the F-117 Stealth Fighter. Also saw a rare flyby by a B-58 Hustler, which was one awesome-looking airplane:
I wish that there were sims that handled more of these Flintstones aircraft. I can’t think of any sim that did the Deuce or the Six, for example. I don’t even think JFA threw them in there.
(Strike Fighters 2 doesn’t count, since it only has a basic .ini-based flight model and generic cockpits)
I mean, the F-104 was done a few times, but that is one boring aircraft (until you try to land it)
