Anyone flown over something/seen something they feel they shouldn't have?

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Oh, yeah I've seen that...
 
averettpilot said:
I saw some suspicious activity out in Rainbow Valley SW of the Estrellas. An abandoned dirt strip we always called "Point X-ray" (two intersecting strips) was a reference point in the practice area. Flying over it one day and saw a 206 or 210 parked at the end of one of the strips. This was pretty unusual so I decided to cut the engine on the student and get a closer look in the process. As we started down I noticed a small black helo on the dirt approaching and landed next to the plane. Watched a couple of guys going back and forth between the two for awhile and I decided to cancel the "emergency decent" and "get out of range." Once they were done, the helo took off and headed one direction on the dirt and the plane took off and headed another direction low level. Now I'd just be speculating but....
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A standard day out this way.
 
If you weren't suppose to see it, it would be prohibited airspace, maybe?

I've been intercepted by migs and even some US built (not operated) fast movers who didn't like where we were at and what were "seeing". Just checked my nav solution pretty well and hoped all the cowboys were in Texas.
 
If you weren't suppose to see it, it would be prohibited airspace, maybe?

I've been intercepted by migs and even some US built (not operated) fast movers who didn't like where we were at and what were "seeing". Just checked my nav solution pretty well and hoped all the cowboys were in Texas.
 
Doing strange, wide patterns accommodating biz jets in OAK once, I kept ending up over this cul de sac. If you've ever flown out of OAK, you know the pattern alt is pretty low, and the surrounding area is...well, not the best place to be at night. Notice some guys talking in the middle of the street. Next time around they're beating the crap out of each other. Next time around, they're gone, and I think a hat was just laying there. Got so distracted looking for where they ran off to and telling my CFI where the fight was, we extended downwind enough to get yelled at. Whoops.

Took pics from an airliner descending over the desert into ONT, a bunch of black SUVs at some random airport with a long runway and limited parking were surrounding a Comco 757. If you're wondering what that is, Google it.

Nothing too exciting here.
 
RDoug said:
The Army flies an old Soviet helicopter out at Biggs Army Airfield, and has since at least the mid 80s. They also used to fly the Polish version of the Antonov AN-2, but I haven't seen that one in a while.
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They moved a few years ago.
 
MikeD said:
They're flown in the CONUS by the US Army.
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This one time...in band camp...Well not really band camp....But while we (USS Ranger CV-61) were doing circles in the Persian Gulf, we had a soviet helicopter land on the flight deck. Not sure how true, but we were told it was hte first time in history that a russian helo landed on a US carrier. Two rotors, very weird looking machine....
 
Blackhawk said:
Pre-Desert Storm the Army had some Soviet helicopters that they... "acquired". Some of the acquisitions were classified as were the existence of the aircraft. They would be quickly pushed in and out of a remote Test Activity hanger. If you asked you were told the MI-24 was a modified S-76.:rolleyes: After Desert Storm the Army made a big deal about getting ahold of some Iraqi helicopters and the MI-24 was suddenly painted in Iraqi colors.
I've also told the story of seeing weird looking civilian aircraft with strange antennas taxi up to an FBO. A bunch of military dudes trying not to look like military dudes get out- you know, short haircuts, bug out bags, sunglasses, polo shirts, khakis and boots. You ask about the airplane and instead of coming up with something like "We do aerial surveys for oil companies" they respond "We can't talk about it." Gets you curious. Let's check the N number. Oh what a shocker. It's owned by a CIA shell company.
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And you know it's a CIA shell company how?
 
There are several seized drug runner 206s and 210s operating out of Conroe packed full of non-OEM electronic gear that are owned by L3-Vertex and supposedly crewed by DEA agents.
 
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