About 20 (maybe 25?)years ago I was out cultivating corn just northwest
of Waterloo, IA and I swear a B52 rumbled right over my head.
Incredibly low and slow. Looked dangerous.

In about 1979, I was searching in the mountains west of Fort
Collins, Colorado for a downed aircraft. I was flying in a Birddog
500' below the ridge line, and heard the most incredible rumbling.
It just kept getting louder and louder. We were jinking left and
right, trying to figure out what it was. Then, we saw a BUFF, 500'
below us and 300' AGL, flying UP the canyon. It climbed over the
canyon wall at the head of the canyon. We immediately climbed and
went over the ridge we were searching to that we would be WELL away
from the wing vortex(es), which would hit the canyon floor or the
canyon wall and CLIMB up the wall due to their rotation. We made
it, but the snow swirl as the wing vortex came over the canyon wall
made an impressive "horizontal snow tornado".

This was one of the BEST ways of turning taxpayer dollars into noise
that I have ever seen/heard! I am proud to be an American!

Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction/mountain flying are my vocation!" Eberhard

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