TimH
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Once in a while a fairly big dark colored airplane can be seen flying over my area. There are no prominent markings on it which tells me it is not a civilian plane. Its military or at least govt. 4 turbo-prop engines and a T-tail. Not sure what it is!!
Anyway, it flies a grid pattern for a few hours at a time at about 3000 ft. I think it is doing search and rescue training or some type of navigation exercise. One of my neighbors(a conspiracy theorist) is convinced the "they" are counting cattle and told me so one day. I laughed at first,until I realized he was serious.
I explained to him that if "they" wanted to count cattle there are cheaper ways than using a big expensive plane like this. He said "they" don't care what it costs!!! I told him "they" could count cattle using sattelite photos for about 1million'th of the cost of that plane,if they wanted to count cattle.
After an hour or so of explaining the more real possibilities to him I felt that I had him convinced that "they" were not counting cattle.
I bumped in to him in town a couple weeks later and among the first words he said was "They were out here flying around counting cattle again day before yesterday". :shock:
So I said "Ya, I know. As soon as I heard that plane coming I went out and chased all my cattle into the bush. Fixed them @#$%$#'s".
He seemed happy with that and bought me a few beers. :lol: :lol: :wink:
Anyway, it flies a grid pattern for a few hours at a time at about 3000 ft. I think it is doing search and rescue training or some type of navigation exercise. One of my neighbors(a conspiracy theorist) is convinced the "they" are counting cattle and told me so one day. I laughed at first,until I realized he was serious.
I explained to him that if "they" wanted to count cattle there are cheaper ways than using a big expensive plane like this. He said "they" don't care what it costs!!! I told him "they" could count cattle using sattelite photos for about 1million'th of the cost of that plane,if they wanted to count cattle.
After an hour or so of explaining the more real possibilities to him I felt that I had him convinced that "they" were not counting cattle.
I bumped in to him in town a couple weeks later and among the first words he said was "They were out here flying around counting cattle again day before yesterday". :shock:
So I said "Ya, I know. As soon as I heard that plane coming I went out and chased all my cattle into the bush. Fixed them @#$%$#'s".
He seemed happy with that and bought me a few beers. :lol: :lol: :wink: