darrylcn
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I have em visually here now over Halifax headed to the northeast in a bit of a loose formation.
Mid-Air Refueling over Nova Scotia
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1138z EDGE 25 showing St Johns.. Prob topoff to make it back to Offutt.
Sometimes will stop at Andrews.
Sometimes will stop at Andrews.
TSKR333 up there now - low levels : currently FL120
darrylcn
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Visual! 
Headed almost due west over Cole Harbour a couple mins ago.
Headed almost due west over Cole Harbour a couple mins ago.
cacti21
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Hi Guys,
FWIW
from my recordings:
06:10Z 08 Jun
341.75 Death 11-12 air-air
341.75 Opec 80 – Death 11 coordinating AR
318.05 Death 11-12 air-air (switching to use 341.75 for AR)
341.75 Opec 80 –Death 11 Opec 80 wants to switch to primary AR freq
294.5 Opec 80 – Death flt boom freq in AR-20 (south west track)
318.05 Death 11 asked Death 12 if he needed anything from “lead” before they
go radio silent. Nothing heard from this point
Opec 80 86-0032 KC-10 305th AMW
Bill Jasset
Billerica, MA.
looknlisten
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Looks identical to what I caught as well.
I'm sure they were not too pleased that they had to use a Victor freq (123.900) to speak with Moncton Center. They tend to use Uniform freqs whenever possible.
Moncton seemed to know they were coming. Treated them like any other flight.
looknlisten
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Pictures...I need pictures!...Visual!
Headed almost due west over Cole Harbour a couple mins ago.
darrylcn
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Heheh. Have to grab em off camera. My new leaf of pics is to just take a ton and sort em later. The E-4 this morning turned out pretty good with this method, just slightly over exposed.
looknlisten
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'leaf'...lol
darrylcn
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Whaaaa? Leaf? Accidental pun?
darrylcn
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Looks like Tatro 90, a P-8, is headed west over Milford doing full positional info, and an AC-130 (using Reach 1006 - is this a pattern of Spectres using 4 digit Reach callsigns?) is heading from Look's area toward me at the low low price, er altitude, of 16,000 feet.
darrylcn
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Here's the Pease and NJ KC-135s heading NE:
And the E-4 coming back. I'm fairly confident these are in foucs (there's a lot of cropping here), if a little backlit. Can already see the spring/summer heat impacting image quality though!
And the E-4 coming back. I'm fairly confident these are in foucs (there's a lot of cropping here), if a little backlit. Can already see the spring/summer heat impacting image quality though!
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Rgr Darryl those AC-130 specials are non-press cabins so 16k is about
as high as you will get them..This past Winter a few on the way up from Florida
kept at around 14k.. Would make good aerial Moose Hunting aircraft..LOL
Then again if you used cannon more like Moose burgers.
C-130 specials tend to use RCH 1001-1032 range..The ones recently have been
coming in from Lajes.
Nice pics!
Also some Nose Art from various Spooky gunships
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=AC-130U+Nose+art&qpvt=AC-130U+Nose+art&FORM=IGRE
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darrylcn
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Ahhh never condsidered that! Sheesh I'd bet the guns etc do impact the ability to pressurize. Thanks..
Yeah to pics turned out well, considering.. As you can tell by the aspect I was a ways away from them.
Yeah to pics turned out well, considering.. As you can tell by the aspect I was a ways away from them.
darrylcn
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Also I meant PeaSe above... Lousy autocorrect!
Good weekend overall.. Even got a local treat here while out firing up BBQ
for dinner 2 CH-53E Choppers "Hustlers" from Marine Corp HMH-772 based at Joint McGuire buzzed my house at 1k on way home to McGuire up in Jersey.
Ran into house and confirmed on their A/A squad 283.000
Those big choppers get your attention with monster rotor and 3 jet engines and huge refueling boom
out front..
for dinner 2 CH-53E Choppers "Hustlers" from Marine Corp HMH-772 based at Joint McGuire buzzed my house at 1k on way home to McGuire up in Jersey.
Ran into house and confirmed on their A/A squad 283.000
Those big choppers get your attention with monster rotor and 3 jet engines and huge refueling boom
out front..
SAM 193 up there right now.
Reg 98-0001. Is that a special one?
Reg 98-0001. Is that a special one?
Most likely US State Dept VIP flight on red eye trip to Europe.
Special Air Mission out of Andrews.
Also some good high res photos of DEATH 11,12 arrival
Note in #2 photo download high res the large crowd of spotters off runway 27..
http://www.afgsc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123413710
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Bunch of SPUR tankers staging to Pease/Bangor? today 1645z-1725z
SPUR 51? 63-8018 NE ANG
SPUR 52 62-3531 OH ANG
SPUR 53 58-0057 Iowa ANG
Midwest tankers hmm.
SPUR 51? 63-8018 NE ANG
SPUR 52 62-3531 OH ANG
SPUR 53 58-0057 Iowa ANG
Midwest tankers hmm.
Couple more SPUR tankers showing Lajes from US today
SPUR 61
SPUR 62
The SPUR 51,52,53 tankers dropped into Lajes as well.
SPUR 61
SPUR 62
The SPUR 51,52,53 tankers dropped into Lajes as well.
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