Crazy fighter jets flying over richmond
 

Anyone else see these things, iv seen fighter jets flying over richmond a few times this year, but lately they've been craaaaaazy loud, y/d morning i was woken up at like 9 am my whole house was shaking the jet sounded as if it went supersonic or smth like insaaaanely loud, this morning 630am same thing as well, again loud as fuck, and just now i seen one fly over my house.. they must be practising for the olympics or something .. pretty fuckin sick

http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/e...avi187/f18.jpg

canadian forces, cf- 18 hornets

yep... i work in path of the YVR planes....i get close up views...and they were out at 6am this morning...buzzing our building...pretty cool. But it does get annoying after 4 passes....f18 superhornets.

That and the abbotsford airshow was just this weekend.

I saw these at work before a few months ago when I was on my break... I heard the loud sound, and I was like...hmm...what kind of airplane is that...and I see 2 of these flying together and I was like...:eek:X1000

I heard them this morning as well...it woke me up!!:mad:

theres an airshow in vic this weekend and my house has been buzzed a couple of times by the snowbirds and other jets

They're running training exercises in prep for the olympics.

thats what i heard too, norad is running training exercises in prep for the olympics.

so they are expecting something like the movie independance day to happen :O

ummm I think we only have the regular old hornets. only the US has superhornets.
I could be wrong.

only US navy has Superhornet, they are about 20-30% large in size, air intakes look different. they have hard corners as oppose to curved ones on cf-18, and if any of these jets go supersonic, near the city , ur windows will shatter!

they can go close to breaking supersonic in city limits, thats when u see the funnel cloud around the fuselage of the plane.

That is correct. The picture above also shows circular air intakes and a slimmer fuselage, indicating a F/A-18A/B/C/D Hornet, not a F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

Also, US military fighter jet aircraft are not permitted to go to mach speeds over North America during peacetime (except for some designated areas). I assume the same rule applies to Canadian aircraft. So what people are hearing is the still incredibly loud sound of sub-mach speed jet aircraft flying at low altitude.

RIGHT....INTO...THE......DANGERZONE

i've seen the cf-18 fly past many times before but this week was the first time i've seen it fly over the city

Damn, I missed them! :(

Once I was driving on Russ Baker and some sort of military jet flew overhead and landed at YVR. It was the loudest thing ever!

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft...8_schem_01.gif

Normal on left & super on right

"Spotted: F18 superhornet

Anyone on here? :p"

vtec just kicked in yo

I was driving to mt st helens in may going down the I5 and all of a suddon a huge army bomber
Flew over my head and was landing at a base freaked the shit out my.

I always thought the f18's had single fin tail.

I think thats F16s

maybe I've been living in a cave...but I wasn't even aware Canada had fighter jets.

Two flew over Burnaby around 1pmish

NORAD is doing training exercises with the Canadian forces. They talked about this 2 days ago on the news.

Yup, it's NORAD;

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - You may notice military planes overhead Wednesday and Thursday as NORAD spends some time in the sky in preparation for the 2010 Games. NORAD is conducting air security exercises in the skies over B.C and Washington State.

Restrictions during the Games include prohibitions on hot air balloons and model aircraft, with some regional airlines are being told to reroute their flights so passengers can be given adequate security screening. Securing the airspace above the 2010 Games requires both Canadian and U.S. efforts as the restricted zones cross the border. Military planes could be escorting other planes into and out of airports.

you found me.

no exercise till they drop bombs...