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Without warning, the jet planes appear in the sky from the southeast Hugging the rolling countryside, they cross Rappahannock at over 400 miles per hour following a line roughly between Boston and SperryviUe.
In an instant they are out of sight, hiding in the green and brown backdrop of the of the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge. Only a trace of the jet engine’s roar is heard as the planes pop over the mountain into the Shenandoah Valley.
The presence of high perform ance military aircraft in the tranquil skies above Rappahannock is not unusual, since the county lies below VR-1754, a military lowlevel flight training route used principally by the Virginia Air National Guard, flying out of Byrd Field, Richmond, and the U. S. Navy, out of NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach.
But whenever they appear, Rappahannockers on the ground stop what they are doing at least long enough to look up. It is the sort of thing that makes a dreamer of the young boy fishing on the river bulk below.
Residents along Rt. 522 in southwestern Rappahannock are used to the visits - which occur from once a week to several a day. "They come right up behind you,” remarked Woodville resident Jerry King, himself a former Navy veteran. “Sometimes they come in so low you can see the pilot.”
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