Mid-Air Refueling over Nova Scotia

[Mark]

BTW this morning GOLD flights were supporting the Red Tails from Alabama on 6 month deployment.



Alabama National Guard's historic 187th Fighter Wing "Red Tails" prepare to deploy

 

[Mark]

Odd callsign heard here but not too surprising..

2220z "CanForce 147" Chinook CH-147F for Canada Mil landing KILG and taxiing to Boeing hangar.
Assembled up the road at Boeing plant in Phila and sometimes do test runs to KILG.
No missing that unique engine whine in radio transmissions..

 

[looknlisten]

Odd callsign heard here but not too surprising..

2220z "CanForce 147" Chinook CH-147F

Nice catch!

 

[Mark]

Seems BLUE 26 brought back single? F/15 to SJ today.

1845z MAZDA 85 nobody else heard req direct GSB eta 25 minutes.
we departed LEMO today.

 

[looknlisten]

Seems BLUE 26 brought back single? F/15 to SJ today.

1845z MAZDA 85 nobody else heard req direct GSB eta 25 minutes.
we departed LEMO today.

Thanks for confirming that. I had them on 290.300 at 1803Z
I wondered why there wasn't much conversation going on.
BLUE26 called in to PACK Control (323.800) at 1807z for a quick gas-n-go.

 

[Mark]

BTW what Ethyl 55 mentioned the 75th FS Flying Tigers are slowly bringing there
A-10's home but single tankers so only 4 at a time.. Guess USAF tankers are busy lately.
BLUE 82 57-1454 22ARW into Pease today 1720z so assume a KC-10 BLUE 81 will drag
4 more tomorrow perhaps..

 

[darrylcn]

Interesting! The group from the other day passed south of NS didn't they? Shame if that's the plan since it's supposed to be sunny tomorrow I think here.

 

[Ethyl55Heavy]

04:00z ethyl 23 63-8003 KC-135R NJ ANG was up with Shuck 82 76-1607 E-3 AWACS from Tinker thanks Derek

 

[Mark]

Recent Video for US and Canadian Hornet fans.. They sting.
VFA-27 working ranges in Japan.. Crank up the volume..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnsxWrPUHN8

 

[darrylcn]

Ha! Saw this last week. Quite a good video. FOD walk!

 

[Mark]

Yeah makes my stomach churn watching departure roll out then that one F/18
bank left away hard and fast.. wow! Serious G forces.. LOL Way cool!

 

[darrylcn]

Hehehe sweet vapes.

 

[darrylcn]

We had AE07D0/89-1192 as Reach 698 as a guest for 3 hours or so here last night due to an emergency.
Paper said it was a fuel emergency, but I'm not sure whether that's the case. With fuel states being obviously a big part of flight planning,I'm guessing a fuel emergency would mean either a faulty indication of low gas or a meetup with a tanker didn't happen. Does anyone know any details on this, or if any Bangor or Pease tankers had a mission scrubbed last night?

 

[krw]

The plane was a C-17 on route from Germany to Gander. The weather was bad enough in Gander that he couldn't land and was rerouted to Halifax.
The pilot declared an emergency due to lack of fuel about 30 minutes outside of Halifax.
Enfield fire was dispatched to the airport as a precaution.
The emergency was called off and fire was told to stand down when the pilot knew he could land safely.
I have a short video of the C-17 after landing as he was parking.

 

[looknlisten]

Wow...I was unaware this happened.
Thanks for the detailed info 'krw'.

 

[darrylcn]

Thank you krw, was that your video on CBC?

 

[krw]

You guys are welcome

I don't know if it was my video or not. Was it a video being taken through a fence of the C-17 turning?

I did send the video to CBC and was on the phone with them before and after I got to the airport.

 

[darrylcn]

Sure was! You're famous!

 

[looknlisten]

Is this the same C-17 in question?

 

[darrylcn]

Nope. Different one. Emergency was 89-1192, that's 94-0066 as Reach 745. Not sure why they were here but it was a less dramatic entrance and they've since left