Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2018

[Mark]

12:45pm local here comes BLUE 01,11 KC-10's from McGuire towards Andrews
for next leg back to Miramar..
BLUE 11 up on Coronet freq 343.100 looking for MAZDA 61 flight.

 

[Mark]

The other day noticed a couple Dover C-5M's going to Colorado Springs
on Space A board..Now understand why.To pickup the USAF Band and others there.
A ceremony Thursday in Iceland for Frank Maxwell Andrews course a AF base in Maryland
named after him.. Used to be called Camp Springs..
A B-52 Buff will also do flyby.
Memorial service for the crew of B-24 Liberator | Professional Pilot Training in Iceland

 

[screenersam]

Supersonic Test Flights off Delmarva Coast Could Cause Sonic Boo - WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader, FOX 21 -

supersonics off Delmarva
not the first, won't be the last

"The Navy said the area is located offshore, as to avoid overflight of populated land areas, but close enough for the safety of the aircraft and pilots, and to conserve on jet fuel to and from the test area. Although most sonic booms generated in this area are never felt or heard on land, the Navy noted that occasionally a sonic boom will be felt or heard due to weather conditions or the details of the test flight."

I suspect some of us already knew this

 

[DPD1]

Heard one of your local guys show up out here yesterday at Mugu. Warlock 8 (VXS-1 P-3). We'll see if they do anything this week. Usually the east coast test only shows up for some sort of event.

 

[Mark]

Was out of town for McGuire airshow but some departures here.
That E-8C from GA ANG on departure Sunday kept going around.

I did mode s log that E-3C SNTRY-07 01-2005 was listed formerly as 3Wg Alaska but tail shows now as 552ACW OK.
Logged today departing 2140z so he must have stopped back as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plHDMWz6cZE

 

[Mark]

Navy setting up new drone test unit down at Webster Naval Outlying Field or KNUI.
Rolls off the tongue eh..in St Marys County.
New unit called (Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Four) or UX-24.
In case down the road you get some odd aircraft types in there..
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/05/06/navy-establishes-aerial-drone-squadron/

AirNav: KNUI - Webster Naval Outlying Field

 

[Tech792]

There has been an E-3C doing touch and go's all this evening at KWRI. Didn't get any numbers though.

 

[Mark]

There has been an E-3C doing touch and go's all this evening at KWRI. Didn't get any numbers though.

Same tail today as well E-3C #80-0137 since May 2nd,thought was in for the airshow
but keeps hanging around KWRI doing fairly low level go arounds below 10k.
Not sure if for pilot practice or testing.

 

[freqhopping]

So I'm looking at this CAP for the POTUS speech in Indiana tonight. Tanker is 58-009 WIDE99
In a larger circle around the tanker is AE49F2 which is supposedly an E/A-18G. Apparently not.
It's showing 88000527. 88-0527 is an F-16 from Ohio.

 

[z31jaime]

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[z31jaime]

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[vocoder]

OH 180fw was up moa...ing nearby at that time

Noble was cap callsign

 

[maus92]

Navy setting up new drone test unit down at Webster Naval Outlying Field or KNUI.
Rolls off the tongue eh..in St Marys County.
New unit called (Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Four) or UX-24.
In case down the road you get some odd aircraft types in there..
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/05/06/navy-establishes-aerial-drone-squadron/

AirNav: KNUI - Webster Naval Outlying Field

They've been testing various UAS at Webster for several years now, MQ-8 Fire Scout sized and below.

 

[freqhopping]

A Navy C-130 flying again out in CA. 165159 CNV3785*

 

[Mark]

A couple of French AF C-135 tankers to Oceana NAS today.
FAF-4044 #474 2000z
FAF-4045 #735 2035z
French Navy/Marine pilots in their 12 Rafales all done playing on the Carrier Bush.
Assume headed home Sunday or Monday.

1925z A VELCRO-4 inbound most likely to Andrews E-11A 12-9506.
A Bombardier GLEX USAF modified aircraft based at Kandahar for com relays over the Mountains.
Been a while since being Stateside..
E-11A flies 10,000th BACN sortie > U.S. Air Forces Central Command > News

 

[freqhopping]

TITAN51 B-52 with ZDC Harrisburg 270.3 heading SW
Heading back from some AR in Vermont.

2138- Sounded like they were handed off to 263.075, but came up on ZDC Blue Ridge 285.6. Request flight plan for direct to a RQZ radial (Huntsville, AL)
2146- to ZDC 371.9 while over the Cumberland, MD area. Not far off the BUZZ14 crash site.

 

[Mark]

TITAN51 B-52 with ZDC Harrisburg 270.3 heading SW
Heading back from some AR in Vermont.

Just picked him up also mode s (AE58AD) Nice to see Buff using mode s for a change.
Seems ran up to New England from Barksdale and now headed back.

 

[ra7850]

Spawn active

Spawn is up and active for the next 2 hours, haven't heard the MOA name but I have them clear on 273.55.

 

[Mark]

Sort of old milair today on the mode s logger..
1620z (A94F8D) callsign DOC72 N69972 B-29 Superfortress dropping down into Reading Pa.
for their WW2 airshow weekend.What a chrome beauty.. One of only two flying today with Fifi being the other one.

https://www.facebook.com/DocsFriends

Also 1825z (A65F73) N51DT P-51D "Merlin Magic" showing callsign RPAT63

 

[Tech792]

06/01/18 @ 1934 local- ZOMBIE 10 doing laps over Frederick, MD. I saw him depart McGuire a few hours ago. I'm guessing a CAP?