C-130 and a strange plane.

[gijake]

I'm not sure if this goes here, but anyway, At school today, I was playing football (American)  and I saw a US Coast Gaurd C-130 fly over the field.  I thought this was cool, and being the only one of my friends who knows anything about aviation, I thought it was a little strange, seeing how there is no air-base anywhere neer the school.  Then about 15 minuets later, I saw a really wierd plane.  it looked almost like the Beachcraft Starship (http://www.bobholland.com/fs/aircraft.htm), but the engins came forward off the wings a little bit.
Kinda cool

[TacitBlue]

Piaggio Avanti, probably. Heres a wkipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_P.180_Avanti

[Boss_BlueAngels]

Remember the C-130 had a pretty significant range.  

[gijake]

It was flying East, I live on the west cost of florida, and there is a closer Airport than somthing on the Atlantic side.  And the other plane was a  Piaggio Avanti.

[beefhole]

USCG aircraft have turned up in some wierd places-I've seen a USCG Dauphin over my school, heading east.  I live about 20 miles to the northwest of Philly, so what it was doing in our area was beyond me.

[flyboy 28]

Just goes to show the extent of the armed forces.

The other day I was sitting down in my basement browsing SimV and I heard a low rumble. Lo and behold, I go outside and it's a CH-53 Super Stallion with USMC markings. There's no USMC base around here, let alone one that handles CH-53's.

USCG aircraft have turned up in some wierd places-I've seen a USCG Dauphin over my school, heading east.  I live about 20 miles to the northwest of Philly, so what it was doing in our area was beyond me.

Isn't there a Coast Guard base in south Philly by the shipyard? Also there's one in Mays Landing, NJ and Cape May, NJ.