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One of the survey planes was over my town last week running tight grid. Forgot about it until now. Connecticut.
We get a fair amount of (what I assume are) WVANG helos over our house in the woods. Sometimes we get more than one a day, but we average about 4 a week.
They tend to come in fairly low - we think they use our house for a waypoint. Never transponding. Sometimes they fly over at night.
Anyhow, last week I was coming home from town, not far from home, and a C5 Galaxy came over the road about as low as the helos fly. There's no place for something that big to land within an hour's drive. I don't know what they were doing, but it was very unusual. Hard to believe something that big flying that slow and low can stay in the air.
When low enough (about a wingspan of altitude), an airplane is in ground effect, which can almost double its lift coefficient. One can sometimes feel it kicking in when an airliner is nearing touchdown.