Is there an air show in San Francisco Bay today?

[Prism]

Only posting in GD because I know we have a lot of Bay Area posters here.

I was just coming down Fairmount Ave in El Cerrito (East Bay), which has a good view of the Bay and Marin headlands/Mt. Tam.

But I just saw what looked to be a cargo type plane turning very low over the water. It freaked me right out. I live about four blocks from the Bay, and now I hear a lot of helicopters in the distance. Was there a crash or is there an event? I can't find anything online about any events this weekend and figured posting here was worth a shot.

[yuiyoshida]

1. Not sure, when is

FLEET WEEK? That's normally when the Blue Angels roar into town!

[Prism]

4. Fleet week is typically October

It's beautiful on the Bay!

[Brother Buzz]

5. Fleet Week is in the Fall.

[arcane1]

2. Nothing I'm aware of. It's terrible weather for it in SF too, foggy and windy.

But I do see those large propeller-driven planes now and then. I have no idea where they are going, or from, but they fly low and loud enough that I always go to the window and look.

[Luminous Animal]

11. Yep. Terrible weather and a typical SF summer day. 3-4 hours of sunshine and 20-21 hours of

fog, wind, and mist.

[malthaussen]

3. Cargo planes or Orions?

Is there an ASW base near SF? We used to have Orions flying out of my neighborhood air station every day until it was closed and re-purposed to be a drone base.

-- Mal

[Prism]

6. Maybe Orion?

It had that sort of look. It definitely wasn't passenger through.

I've just never seen a plane like that flying low over the water like that outside of something like Fleet Week.

[greytdemocrat]

7. What color were they??? nt

[Prism]

8. Grayish?

I was coming out of the Berkeley Hills, so I was a fair distance from the Bay.

[NuclearDem]

9. Could also just be training.

[petronius]

10. Maybe a fly-by event related to D-Day? Along the waterfront, perhaps,

or is there a game at one of the stadiums?

[MicaelS]

12. Probbaly was a C-130 or P-3 doing

Touch and goes, which are practice takeoff and landings for training purposes. Takeoff and landings are always dangerous times.

C-130

P-3