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a reply to: FredT

You see those pop up and fly around the area every so often.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: FredT

You see those pop up and fly around the area every see often.

Must be quite a whale to get flown in. I guess the 10 minutes I spend at the nickel slots doesn't rate

Lots of eye candy up right now

Have a WB-57 out of Huston up
Have a WP-3D from NOAA up
Have a GII up for the Missile Defense Agency
A3ST Beluga up
U-2S up
E-4B Nightwatch
A pair of A400M's (One French on Brit) over the Caribbean

a reply to: FredT

Where was the E-4?

a reply to: Zaphod58

It was listed and was at FL25 but never got a physical trace

a reply to: FredT

About 10 days ago someone posted that they caught the E-4B that has been in PDM on the ramp waiting for paint. It might have been an FCF.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: FredT

About 10 days ago someone posted that they caught the E-4B that has been in PDM on the ramp waiting for paint. It might have been an FCF.

Like a check flight while waiting to be painted? Whats the total time to paint that sucker? 2-3 days?

A KC-10 doing ovals over death valley again. Another heading West entering Arizona and may be headed to the same spot. Also a UK KC3 over Utah

E2 off the coast of SoCal

10 P-8 up very few out over the ocean though

2 JSATRS up on identical courses seems to be headed to Georgia

and the E-4B is up again SOUP12 at FL32 but not showing on the map. However, its confined to the southeast 1/4 of the US

a reply to: FredT

Yeah, Functional Check Flight. They do everything from shut the engines down and restart them in flight, to running all the commo gear.

Anywhere from 3 days to a week, depending on demands on the paint shop. They probably painted it first, because having it painted would help to highlight any leaks during the FCF.

Triton up at FL50 can't get a location though

169329 AE5C5B
United States Navy VVLL828
United States Military
Boeing P-9A Poseidon

The original Deer Jet 787 that started this thread is back, heading out of the DC area. This time it looks like they're going East.

Cobra Ball is up and the VC-25A is showing on the ground

A pair of A400M's are up over the Carribean

Plus a pair of Super Marine Spitfires up!!!!! over the UK

a reply to: FredT

They're doing a flyover of one of the bases for a formal dinner they're having.

An OC-135 Open Skies aircraft is up somewhere in the Western US (Cn't seem to pin it down) and a Qatar 747-8 BBJ is cruising over OK, and looks headed to Arizona or New Mexico or some point close

Finally the OC-135 is up over Colorado

Also looks like an AUS. A330 MRTT has just crossed the Pacific and is heading toward Travis AFB

a reply to: FredT

I wondered who that one went to. My money was on Kuwait, not Qatar.

Currently watching it and viewing 3 ,planes over the UK roughly over the Scots boarder. Callsigns DELUGE62 DELUGE63 AND DELUGE64. all 3 have transitioned over the north sea after what looks like a meet and greet with a K35R, callsign QID101.

Point is the 3 aircraft callsign DELUGE has no information displayed. Not even the airforce they belong to. Now a fourth DELUGE61 is hanging off the East coast of the UK

a reply to: blackbird9393

Deluge has previously been used by GR4s. Most likely that's what they are this time.

They are showing as being German Air Force. And probably using Deluge callsign due to the amount of bloody rain we have here !!

originally posted by: blackbird9393
Currently watching it and viewing 3 ,planes over the UK roughly over the Scots boarder. Callsigns DELUGE62 DELUGE63 AND DELUGE64. all 3 have transitioned over the north sea after what looks like a meet and greet with a K35R, callsign QID101.

Point is the 3 aircraft callsign DELUGE has no information displayed. Not even the airforce they belong to. Now a fourth DELUGE61 is hanging off the East coast of the UK

Also showing up over Belgium is a Hunter RQ-5A UAV