Submitted by cesd3967 t3_yg6zai in springfieldMO
Kinda sounds like a plane descending, but has happened once like every 15 minutes for a few hours. Also kinda like the end of a tornado siren winding down way the fuck off in the distance; that's obviously not what it is but it's a similar shrill whistle in the distance noise.
Anyone know what the hell it is?
It’s a whistle from steam from the old Dayco building. Not sure what the business is now.
I didn't look tonight, but usually it's a T-1A Jayhawk from Vance AFB in Oklahoma.
That's exactly what it was except it was out of Bentonville tonight.
Thank you so much! Seemed to go right over my house and I couldn't distinguish between a weird siren, an odd plane or an impending plane crash!!!
Aviation enthusiast here…that distinct whistling is the T1-A…they had two doing night hours tonight.
If you ever want to know what 99% of planes overhead are go to www.globe.adsbexchange.com. They don’t filter out military (fighters are rarely seen) or LADD opt out biz jets…FR24 and others filter that out. VANDY is there normal call sign from Vance if a T1.
We actually get a surprising amount of military traffic here…rarely fighters/bombers but I did see a 767 variant refueler for the first time ever this past week…at about 2000’ over town.
XNA is is another frequent pattern practice place for T-1s. XNA and SGF provide enough traffic to be realistic scenarios with other traffic and also legit approach glide slopes and some more technical stuff. They frequently do a flew laps at at SGF/XNA/TUL/OKC/ICT and move onto another field mentioned and maybe a third. Most all here are out of Vance but you will get a random outlier for T-1s every now and again.
I saw 1 or 2 C-17s (it was the big ones) i think on Wednesday heading to SGF airport
It’s a timken plant now I believe, I used to work right down the street and heard it all the time.
Springfield also has a VORTAC for military TACAN approaches.
I know that sound. Sounds like someone screaming in rhythm. It’s the whistle from letting out steam of their boilers. Happens all the time. OP was talking about a different sound. Seems like military planes from the comments.
This is the correct answer. Its also why Nathaniel Greene Park sometimes smells like rubber.
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Air force was doing touch and goes at the airport.