[Syntyr]

"I had the chance to see one of these in the sky, once. They can only be described as "eerie"."

True! Saw one at an airshow and even at low altitude you could almost not hear it! It seemed impossible that that big of a machine could just hang in the air like that with such little engine noise. My first thought was thats "spooky"

[ErnBatavia]

A few years ago when I lived a bit north of the San Fernando Valley, I was walking around the block around 7:30 or so on New Years morning, and I heard this swoosh....looked up and saw one flying "low and slow"; it was looping right overhead for it's flyover of the Rose Parade.

Saw it come back after it's mission, but much further east on the way back.

[razorback-bert]

True, silent, appear and disappear in the blink of an eye.