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To: kristinn

Mot much info yet, but as a general rule, you don’t get a lot of large planes or advanced military stuff at Hanscom. Helicopters, private jets, that sort of thing. It’s more of a small civilian airport than military, though, of course, it is a military base.


2 posted on 05/31/2014 7:21:42 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Fegelein! Fegelein! Fegelein!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

There is more there than you think. I work and live in the flight path and we get occasional very large aircraft landing there.

My wife and I were hanging out outside the fence waiting to watch a plane take off and we I saw a 747 parked down there (not Air Force One)

I work in a trailer off of a main building, and I am only one of a handful of people who have a real, honest to goodness window I can actually open to the air.

I used to work in military aviation so my face is constantly to the sky when I hear planes. Military stuff sounds so different from commercial stuff.

I saw a few planes fly over that were variants of 707s, (possibly JSTARS) I have seen KC-135s, and I recall seeing a B-52 land there.

Just yesterday, something really big came in low, and I didn’t catch a sight of it.

I love living around planes.


22 posted on 05/31/2014 7:53:28 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by it"s weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“you don’t get a lot of . . .advanced military stuff at Hanscom”

Actually, you do, or you did, maybe not a lot, but more than you’d think. So advanced it’s not in production yet. There’s an Air Force/DOD research laboratory right next to it.


48 posted on 05/31/2014 9:37:56 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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