I live in the South East. It rhymes with Fentucky. Every other day I am hearing a loud rumbling, only to look up and see the largest rotary craft engine ever, usually heading south west, definitely 10,000+ But by golly it is the loudest thing in the sky, Nothing showing up on radar, imagine that. Occasional black hawk flying the area incredibly low, definitely not on radar.
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no no no... It was not a helicopter, of any sorts. It was a rotary fixed wing craft like a c130... But way larger...
Hang on mate, Rotary would normally denote helicopter? Fixed wing is well a fixed wing?
Do you mean "propeller" driven? If so then maybe an A400 it's very similar to a C130 but much bigger, has a high wing just like the 130.
My confusion with the V22 is because it's both rotary and fixed wing, it's the engines that move from the vertical to horizontal for forward flight.
Image search for the A400.
oh yeahhhhh.. Sorry about that. I tried to look up the correct verbiage by comparing it to a c130 and wikipedia told me it was a rotary engine, fixed wing craft. My assumption was that rotary just implied non jet propulsion. I do apologize for the confusion.
No problem, I'm guessing you saw that, an A400.
I do believe that is what it was.. and I do believe its what I have been frequently hearing on cloudy days. Glad to see them still running crafts like these!