drone flyover, east side of muncie?

[nkdninjafrog]

driving back from visiting my grandpa, i noticed what i originally thought to be a plane flying over HWY3/US 35. normally i wouldnt have noticed it, because small aircraft are common here with the muncie airport and all, but i thought it was going to crash, so i was watching to see if it was really going to happen. then it banked to my left and i realized it was actually a UAV. there arent any flight bases around muncie that i'm aware of, so whats the deal?

 

[Cpl. Klinger]

Grissom AFB (or what's left of it) is up north that way. Could be from up there.

 

[Double T]

Grissom AFB (or what's left of it) is up north that way. Could be from up there.

That's a hell of a flight for a drone...

 

[DownByTheTracks]

I'm 10 minutes from Grissom and I've never seen anything that appears to be a drone.

 

[Cpl. Klinger]

That's a hell of a flight for a drone...

When you say drone, I think of this...


When OP said UAV, I thought of this...


Heck of a flight for one, but not the other.

 

[N8RV]

FWIW, I was chatting with a guy in Goshen last week who reported seeing a similar thing. He was driving along and saw what appeared to him to be an RC plane flying alongside the road. After driving awhile and it was still there, he realized that no RC pilot would still have it in sight. Hmmm ...

WE ARE BEING DRONED.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Are you part of a Tea Party group????? I heard the IRS had bought some drones!!

 

[nkdninjafrog]

cpl klingler, it looked closer to the second one than the first. i just said uav cuz im on my phone and unmanned aerial vehicle is really long

 

[Caleb]

obama did say a while back about 200 UAV covering our skies, no?

 

[dagibson1507]

that's right by the ama. i would venture to say it was a model airplane or at least a model of a real uav. i suppose they could be training on smaller airfields like that but unlikely.

 

[patricktjms]

I know the plane you are refering to. It was being flown RC out of the AMA flying site on east 12th.

Not a drone.

 

[nkdninjafrog]

Well I suppose that makes sense. It just seemed a little too big to be an RC model which is why I was curious

 

[Westside]

Well I suppose that makes sense. It just seemed a little too big to be an RC model which is why I was curious

This isn't a pic of me or one I took. But this isn't the biggest RC plane I've seen.

And we used to do "Cross country" flights where we would take off then pile into a car and fly to a local hobby shop. Had to modify the planes to make the flight but it was a lot of fun. Gave up R/C plane to pay for gun stuff.

 

[jontheturboguy]

I've had several drone flyovers in Johnson cnty.

 

[LEaSH]

I've had several drone flyovers in Johnson cnty.

Recently? Are you good at estimating their altitude? I'm just curious.

I know there will be a few in the air over Speedway this weekend, but I have no idea what altitudes they typically loiter.

 

[PX4me]

Drones disguised as RC. That's what it is. It's the perfect cover.

 

[avboiler11]

Recently? Are you good at estimating their altitude?

I'd guess most non-pilot types are pretty awful at estimating altitudes...especially if you're not sure of the actual size of what you are looking at.

 

[jontheturboguy]

Recently? Are you good at estimating their altitude? I'm just curious.

I know there will be a few in the air over Speedway this weekend, but I have no idea what altitudes they typically loiter.

Yes recently. As recent as March early April.

Both times unit was headimg south towards Atterbury.

Id say they were 1000-1500 ft off deck

 

[Scarecrow]

Grissom AFB (or what's left of it) is up north that way. Could be from up there.

I'm sitting here right now... don't see any drones on our runway.

 

[kickbacked]

please tell me you yelled," Enemy UAV spotted"