Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2020

[Mark]

1955 local Couple of Minot Buffs coming into Upstate NY area turning SE towards the Cape. CAKE 11,13.
SPUR 72 tanker coming East from Ohio.
Another Buff from Barksdale doing laps of NC Coast.. Like I said earlier everyone up flying today
2015 local SPUR 71 flight calling CAKE-11 flight on 341.750 the old AR-20 track freq.

 

[mdmonitor]

The guys in the northeast are getting a real treat tonight. Bunch of tankers out and about and the buffs are crossing over Boston and heading east.

Just noticed (2030L) on ADS-B that another B-52 (no call showing #60-0052 AE588E) is messing around off the NC coast probably in W50 & W122.

 

[Mark]

2027 local SPUR flight says "you guys are early and we are trying to speed up here" on 341.750 AR-20
"Looking for 03-05 after hour IP"... Guess Minot Buffs will have to spin for a while
2030 SPUR-81 KC-10 86-0030 off McGuire heading East.

 

[AirScan]

2030 local - CAKE 11 working ZBW 133.450 (controller only). 2033 - to ZBW 269.30 (same controller).

 

[Mark]

2059 local Seems SPUR-81 headed Bangor or CYQX like SPUR 80 earlier to
catch CAKE's when they rtb the USA prob on the semi-Polar route 100+ miles North of Quebec City.
2101 looks like SPUR 71 flight down to FL260 on the AR-20 track headed for Halifax.

 

[AirScan]

on the AR-20 track headed for Halifax.

Monitoring A-A, after YQY requesting direct Minot RTB. A little drama, took them two tries to connect.

 

[SOSull66]

Hey guys, long time no post...

I noticed that tonight there is an RO-6A. Us Army recon aircraft doing laps around South Jersey.


That aircraft is very interesting... it’s a spy plane.

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I can’t help but wonder what it’s doing... two thoughts come to mind...
there might be a special forces team out training in the pine barrons tonight that they are watching over.. Ft Dix is out that way.

Another thought is that Tuckerton is a major landing point for trans Atlantic cables... could they be listening to something? They keep flying in straight lines over Tuckerton.
Happy Holidays!

 

[AirScan]

Monitoring A-A, after YQY requesting direct Minot RTB.

After checking the archives I see it was CAKE 13 that RTB to Minot (air spare), CAKE 11 kept going eastbound oceanic, using primary 8891 for Gander, I lost them after that.

 

[AirScan]

2059 local Seems SPUR-81 headed Bangor or CYQX

SPUR 81 ended up AR with CAKE 12 over northern Quebec. Not sure where CAKE 12 came from ? Didn't seem to be part of the 11-13 group with SPUR 71-72 ?

 

[mdmonitor]

0830- DeeCee 01 (KC-135R # 57-1479 AE0160 756th ARS) doing multiple approaches at ADW (125.65 & 118.4). Maybe the Sqdn Cmdr getting in some flight time? 0855- Now heading off to the northeast.

0858- Brave 01 & 02 (F-16s 121st FS DC ANG) land at ADW. Brave callsign usually denotes intercept training w/Huntress

 

[rjsincs]

Hey guys, long time no post...

I noticed that tonight there is an RO-6A. Us Army recon aircraft doing laps around South Jersey.


That aircraft is very interesting... it’s a spy plane.

There has been one up periodically for a few weeks. Usually they are doing perfect circles in the Harrisburg PA area also.

 

[rjsincs]

Looks like another active day at Duke coming up.

 

[krokus]

Did anyone hear any comments about this event? I would assume some pilots saw it.

American Meteor Society

We received 205 reports about a fireball seen over MD, MI, NY, OH, Ontario, PA and VA on Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 around 17:09 UT.

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[IQ_imbalance]

Interesting flight for a VC-25 today...aborted trip, or a shakedown flight?

 

[rjsincs]

One of the Buffs Cake 11 had an engine failure and is burning fuel for a few hours over England. Now there are 2 more Buffs that left Barksdale. I don't know if they are related.

 

[IQ_imbalance]

82-8000 is back up and flying a holding pattern toward the bay. So that this is on-topic, i can say that i have my scanner on but haven't heard anything

 

[mdmonitor]

1155- Air Force 2 ( C-32 # 98-0001 ADFEB7) off ADW heading west.

1200- Pioneer 08 (P-8 # 167955 VX-1) out working again in test discrete (267.0).

 

[mdmonitor]

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[mdmonitor]

Interesting flight for a VC-25 today...aborted trip, or a shakedown flight?
View attachment 94903

Both VC-25s will periodically go out as Venus 01 (82-8000) & Venus 02 (92-9000). These flights are for maintenance test, pilot familiarization flts to various area airports that could be potential diverts in case of emergencies or for crew training.

 

[mdmonitor]

In case anyone's interested CG Sector Baltimore (157.15) has been working all morning with CG Auxiliary acft N753PH. N753PH stopped to refuel at Carroll County Airport in Westminster MD.