Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2023

[RaleighGuy]

It's Friday and the VP is traveling...
At 9:10 am PT, the Vice President and Second Gentleman will depart from San Francisco, CA en route to St. Louis, MO.
At 2:35 pm CT, the Vice President and Second Gentleman will arrive at St. Louis International Airport.

At 6:55 pm CT, the Vice President and Second Gentleman will depart from St. Louis, MO en route to Washington, DC.
At 9:40 pm ET, the Vice President and Second Gentleman will arrive at Joint Base Andrews.

And FLOTUS Heads to NY...
At 10:30 AM, the First Lady will arrive at New York Stewart International Airport in Orange County, NY.

But POTUS is staying in DC again this weekend.

 

[john8436]

Maybe today we will see another KC-46A being delivered. 20-46079 is sitting with 9 test flights that is usually the time frame for them to be delivered. Time will tell!!

 

[krokus]

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SBY today. stealth technology???
N161PR

It would be stealthy, because no one would pay any attention to it.

 

[N4TX]

It would be stealthy, because no one would pay any attention to it.

These have largely been in hiding since the Berlin Airlift, but if you go through any airport in Central or South America, you'll find they're out there, just waiting to take over again.

 

[frank3si]

These have largely been in hiding since the Berlin Airlift, but if you go through any airport in Central or South America, you'll find they're out there, just waiting to take over again.

Here's a good article about that specific aircraft, and how there's more to it than meets the eye Scroll through all four photos at the top...

WW II aircraft flies again for NAWCAD

 

[jsoergel]

With the 43rd FS at Langley, had some new freqs passed to me by a friend monitoring from Norfolk:

298.800
274.200
227.200

No channel numbers available at this time, but they are likely aux presets.

 

[carbineone]

11:53 Hearing Marlin 1 &2 T-38's on 255.65
12:10 unknown air to air 273.85 and 305.6

 

[carbineone]

12:26 265.775 Air to Air calling out bearings.

 

[john8436]

With the 43rd FS at Langley, had some new freqs passed to me by a friend monitoring from Norfolk:

298.800
274.200
227.200

No channel numbers available at this time, but they are likely aux presets.

Did the 43rd FS move to Langley when Tyndall received the F35?

 

[carbineone]

13:11 313.950 air to air traffic calling out targets on ground.

 

[mdmonitor]

1630- Bundy 32 (E-6B # 163930) inbound to PAX & Dinky 34 (E-6B # 162783) coming from offshore passing over Atlantic City , turning over Terry's house and heading back offshore.

 

[RaleighGuy]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 6, 2023

WEEKEND GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2023 – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2023

On Saturday and Sunday, the President has no public events scheduled.

FLOTUS heads to Wisconsin for two day visit Monday and Tuesday

 

[jsoergel]

Did the 43rd FS move to Langley when Tyndall received the F35?

The 43d Fighter Squadron's final sting

Since 2002, the 43d Fighter Squadron has been training and preparing F-22 Raptor pilots for global air dominance. Amidst the 325th Fighter Wing’s mission transition from training to warfighting, the

www.tyndall.af.mil

 

[Mark]

GOLD 61 is dragging two 421st FS F-35s back to CONUS from RAF Lakenheath as TABOR 31 and TABOR 32.
Tails 17-5281 & 17-5247 and they were up on European boom frequency 294.800, CONUS ones probably 282.000 or 396.200.

Hope this helps,


René.

USAF confirms F-35 drawdown as we logged a couple 421st F-35's Tabor's last Saturday enroute to SJ stop.Maybe more to come.
I just don't understand current USAF deployments sometimes.
If the F-35 deployment was so successful as they say below in article then why are they taking them out of the area?

F-35s Leave Middle East After Deployment to Deter Iran and Russia

U.S. Air Force F-35s that deployed to the Middle East to deter Iranian aggression in the Gulf and Russian bullying in Syria have left.

www.airandspaceforces.com

 

[RaleighGuy]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 6, 2023

WEEKEND GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2023 – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2023

On Saturday and Sunday, the President has no public events scheduled.

FLOTUS heads to Wisconsin for two day visit Monday and Tuesday

Week Ahead just released, another slow week with no POTUS travel announced in it.

 

[Dutchmil]

Davis Monthan A10s sleeping here for a bit before going to Europe. First batch left yesterday morning, I think the others left this morning

They are still at Martin State. They are now scheduled to depart this Sunday, October 8th at 1100z.
This should be their routing to Lajes [LPLA]:

 

[Mark]

They are still at Martin State. They are now scheduled to depart this Sunday, October 8th at 1100z.
This should be their routing to Lajes [LPLA]:

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Thanks René Had a feeling they were gonna have to wait for the weekend for Reserve tanker crew to
drag across. Wx forecast for Saturday is not good locally here so maybe why Sunday departure.
Most folks don't realize that majority of USAF tanker crews are Reserve/ANG folks who make up better than 60%
of the USAF so that is why most routine Altravs are weekend scheduled events.

 

[Mark]

Couple CLEAN tankers up off Europe this morning Westbound.
CLEAN-42 KC-10 #83-0078 departed Spangdahlem, Acars has destination KPIT Pittsburgh.
CLEAN-43 #57-2605 100 ARW prob a rtb topoff tanker out of Mildenhall.

 

[mdmonitor]

0825- Montana 73 (C-12 # 161073) off Easton, MD & working Potomac (119.7/135.625) heading south. Working ZDC Lexington (133.9).

0830- IFC0653 (Indian AF C-17 CB-8011) off DOV.

 

[Mark]

Couple CLEAN tankers up off Europe this morning Westbound.
CLEAN-42 KC-10 #83-0078 departed Spangdahlem, Acars has destination KPIT Pittsburgh.
CLEAN-43 #57-2605 100 ARW prob a rtb topoff tanker out of Mildenhall.

Looks like first wave CLEAN-31 now SW Bound towards Maine area KC-10 #86-0033 at FL260.
departed Europe real early this am around 0700z