Growing up by the airport, BMI, in our city as a kid was awesome between the airshows and seeing the C-130's from Peoria do training runs. The B-2 flew over the house during the initial publicity tour of airshows. You could smell the Shockwave Truck from our backyard. Bad-Ass.
The most "tactical" knowledge I have is being able to ID the sound of a C-130 from inside the house
Anyhow, we've had maybe half a dozen fly overs by CH-47s the last couple months.
Any idea what unit they might be from?
I think it's cool as hell because it doesn't happen every day and they sound badass.
I thought it must have been a good sound for a lot of GIs to hear.
We have an armory on the south end of town and a depot with some heavy trucks on the north side of town. I wonder if they were doing fly-overs?
I got lucky and actually saw a C-5 Galaxy circling pretty low around BMI earlier this month. Cool to see what are rare birds around here.