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10/13/2001 Entry: "B-52 Bomber Overhead Today"

There's going to be a B-52 flyover in my neighborhood this afternoon. I hope people don't freak out and think it's a plane coming down.

Update: Well, the plane came and went without much ado. It was supposed to come around 3:00 so around 2:50 I went out to look for it. There were no planes in the sky at all, which was sort of weird. It looked like a soccer game over in the park had stopped as well to wait for it. Finally around 3:05 a plane came across, but it was pretty far away, over by National, which looked like a passanger plane, but that's all there was. The game started again, I went back inside to finish the bills.

Then around 3:30 it really came over. There was an incrediable loud sound of a plane, which I'm sure must of rattled anyone who didn't see the paper today. I ran out and saw it go directly overhead. It really wasn't that low, but it was really big, and loud, and gone after a couple seconds. My main impression was that it looked old-fashioned, sort of like a car from the 60's. A little research shows the last plane, eh excuse me, "stratofortress", was built in 1962, and each cost $74 million. No info on how much it costs to fly one over a funeral though.