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Global supertanker (747 configured for fire fighting just popped up on the ground near LA

a reply to: FredT

That's been at Pinal for weeks now. There's an A400M heading out west too. Looks like their heading to DM maybe.

He's over the Lordsberg area and dropping fast heading right for DM.

I think your right about the carrier off the coast. an E-2 popped up

a reply to: FredT

Yeah, I just noticed him myself and was going to post about him.

Looks like the A400 is going past DM. He's almost there and still at 17,000.

Dammit, he went to DM. I can't see him there from the interstate.

The KDC-10 that went to Andrews yesterday just popped up heading out.

i got busy. The medical plane is dropping and perhaps heading to colorado springs.

Does Saudi send its pilot to the AF Academy?

Yep he looks like he is lining up for petersen AFB

a reply to: FredT

Ok, that's interesting. Pence landed there earlier today.

Wow. Three gunships, including a Ghostrider.

P-51D up

also have a C-5M looks like its heading to Travis

Cal Fire has alot up today

a reply to: FredT

RCH267 and 971 flying in formation up the coast near Philly heading out it looks like. C-17s.

Got a dreamlifter feet wet heading over the pond

SAM747, currently over Illinois and I have history. It's a C-20B that came through Hickam a few years ago on their way home from an Asian trip with some Washington VIPs on board. We were out when they arrived, and I was walking around, I put my hand on the back of the wing, and my hand came away wet. I thought it was just water until I smelled it, and caught that odor of JP-4.

So I called my father over, he came with the crew chief (they traveled with the SAM birds on their trips), and the entire back of the wing was covered in fuel. So fuel cell comes out, and said they could look at the seals under the panels over the fuel tanks but if they're bad, they don't keep them in stock, so it was up to the crew. They decided to go with the leak, since it didn't appear to be bad, and they'd been gone for like two weeks and wanted to get home.

It gets to time for them to launch on the way home. We get out to where the plane is, the crew chief sees me get out of the truck, points at me and says "You stay away from my airplane!"

a reply to: FredT

Now you want interesting, check out the 757 passing over Dothan Alabama.

Wow, it's got a very interesting history.

He went into Eglin it looks like.

Sonic 99, NAOC and Perch 38, Mercury are both airborne.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Awesome story. That's why I love our aviation forum.

Gulf Stream from the missile defense agency over Kansas

a reply to: FredT

I caught a NASA C-20 earlier.

I had no idea they did that on a Gulfstream ...ya see one and they just look top of the line all new and modern....cool forum, yep

a reply to: FredT

She's at Mojave over between the Orbital and a Virgin Galactic hangars. I just went by and saw her parked there. A lot of CalFire and forestry ground units on 58 too.