Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2021

[RaleighGuy]

Looks like Illinois NG going home. Had Illiani 7 into ADW this morning and he left around noon. Now have a couple of TORCH C-130s inbound to ADW.

Michigan National Guard members return from D.C. Capitol support mission at the Detroit International Airport March 15, 2021, aboard Southwest Airlines (charter???)

Michigan National Guard soldiers return from D.C.

B-roll package showing Michigan National Guard members return from D.C. Capitol support mission at the Detroit International Airport March 15, 2021.

www.dvidshub.net

B-roll of 2 E4-B's from Offutt Air Force base temporarily operating out of Lincoln Airport.

E4-B temporary operations at Lincoln Airport

B-roll of 2 E4-B's from Offutt Air Force base temporarily operating out of Lincoln Airport.

www.dvidshub.net

 

[AirScan]

RCH 476 ended up inbound Volkel Air Base (EHVK)

Related ? RCH313. They both seemed to fly the same corridor over the UK. Designated Hazmat route ?

 

[Mark]

Related ? RCH313. They both seemed to fly the same corridor over the UK. Designated Hazmat route ?

Makes sense.. Seems to have went to Aviano first as RCH313 then became RCH111 to Germany.
With the 62nd AW so good chance.. They do the Hazmat route missions.. Aviano a hotspot as well.

BLUE-81 inbound McGuire on 134.100.. Sure had long altrav from yesterday.. Made it home with 4 writeups.

 

[Mark]

The USAF has been upgrading their B-61 bombs in New Mexico of course and sending to their usual NATO base storage
places in Europe. One reason why the F-35 is popular with NATO and US allies.. not just Dog fighting as they all can now do that and
has gone the way of the Battleship. It's because they can carry a B-61 internally. Sure would be hard to stop a couple dozen stealthy fighters
with ECM capabilities,decoys,drones etc from getting to an enemy. Imagine F-35 inbound at SS speeds at only 10k feet.. Little chance to stop it.
The WZ looked at this testing a while back.
Watch An F-35 Drop A B61 Nuclear Bomb In This First-Ever Declassified Video (thedrive.com)

 

[ZNY3347]

1905 - JUMBO71 (C-5M, 87-0036) requesting ILS 31 at KMDT (126.45) for some pattern work

1912 - ROYAL05 (C-17A, 07-7169) also looking to work KMDT starting with the visual 31 (126.45)

 

[ra7850]

The USAF has been upgrading their B-61 bombs in New Mexico of course and sending to their usual NATO base storage
places in Europe. One reason why the F-35 is popular with NATO and US allies.. not just Dog fighting as they all can now do that and
has gone the way of the Battleship. It's because they can carry a B-61 internally. Sure would be hard to stop a couple dozen stealthy fighters
with ECM capabilities,decoys,drones etc from getting to an enemy. Imagine F-35 inbound at SS speeds at only 10k feet.. Little chance to stop it.
The WZ looked at this testing a while back.
Watch An F-35 Drop A B61 Nuclear Bomb In This First-Ever Declassified Video (thedrive.com)

To add additional information, When It Comes to Supersonic Flight, the F-35’s Wings Are Clipped

 

[RaleighGuy]

Travel plans, if anyone is interested, for tomorrow. Hoping @TerryPavlick has his feed up.

1:40pm POTUS will travel to Delaware County, Pennsylvania with departure from the South Lawn to Joint Base Andrews and the arrive at Philadelphia International Airport.

Then, the POTUS will visit a small business in Chester, Pennsylvania at 3:30pm, location was not announced.

5:45pm AF1 will depart Delaware County, Pennsylvania en route Wilmington, Delaware, where he will remain overnight with arrival at the Delaware Air National Guard Base.

 

[TerryPavlick]

Travel plans, if anyone is interested, for tomorrow. Hoping @TerryPavlick has his feed up.

1:40pm POTUS will travel to Delaware County, Pennsylvania with departure from the South Lawn to Joint Base Andrews and the arrive at Philadelphia International Airport.

Then, the POTUS will visit a small business in Chester, Pennsylvania at 3:30pm, location was not announced.

5:45pm AF1 will depart Delaware County, Pennsylvania en route Wilmington, Delaware, where he will remain overnight with arrival at the Delaware Air National Guard Base.

Feed will be on line by then and that location is close the the PA site as well.

 

[Madfox]

Norwegians confirmed into KLUF yesterday,

Luke 15/03/2021 CE024 Westbound
NOW 332A/B/C KBLV>KLUF
5290 F-35A RNoAF
5291 F-35A RNoAF
5292 F-35A RNoAF
84-0192 KC-10A 305AMW/McGuire BLUE81 KBLV>KWRI

 

[morfis]

Related ? RCH313. They both seemed to fly the same corridor over the UK. Designated Hazmat route ?

Regardless of what it was carrying that's a standard routing and more to do with avoiding French airspace. You'll often see MC130s and CV22s leave Mildenhall to go 'South East' route South West towards Land's End and then skirt France for the same reason.

 

[Mark]

0400 local Odd departure this morning RCH 913 C-17 #03-3126 off McGuire flying due North for the Pole..
Maybe going to Thule?
0425 local Flight of 3 countoff on 341.750 weak A/A getting stronger.. B-2's on the move? Masked coms.

 

[Tech792]

0530 local- Also had a flight of 3 countoff on ZNY 282.3, missed any ID's. Nothing showing on ADS-B.

 

[Mark]

I had to run but did not see any tankers up.
Maybe B-2s on a round robin from Whiteman?

 

[AirScan]

0530 local- Also had a flight of 3 countoff on ZNY 282.3, missed any ID's. Nothing showing on ADS-B.

Callsign was JUICY 01 (known B-2 callsign). Edit - Twitter reporting them as B-52s.

 

[mdmonitor]

0812- Muley 91 (E-6B # 164387 AE-414 VQ-4 Det) off PAX heading east out over Atlantic.

 

[TerryPavlick]

Feed will be on line by then and that location is close the the PA site as well.

Feed is active. I have Phila Tower and Phila Radar active so that the feed sounds busy. Will have to lock out Phila Radar since they will talk too much to monitor anything else. Phila Radar is set as negative delay time so will automatically move on even if talking.

 

[AirScan]

JUICY 01 was cleared by Gander to RTB Barksdale via direct Albany around 0800L, so might be in the area now (0925L). JUICY 02 up on 5616, HF conditions seem very poor though.

 

[pro106import]

Barnes Mass. exercise starting with callsign "Heckler" ATC (Usually Huntress or Footrope)
Rippa 1-4
Gunshot 1-2 Gunshot 1 RTB with a code 3 Generator problem
259.0
259.9
338.1
283.8
305.25
275.9
309.0
292.15
And DC Wilds are up down south W-107a 339.725, 255.0, 268.025

 

[mdmonitor]

1111_ SAM 051 (C-37 # 11-0550 AE4DDD) off ADW heading west.

1118- Jeep 21 (KC-135R # 60-0345) & Hind 36 (KC-10 # 87-0124) working in AR 218 (274.45)

1120- Scan 84 (Dash 8 N984ha NGTF) working on discrete (123.225). Orbiting at FL170 over MD Eastern shore/Delaware.

1130- Mango 65 (C-37 # 01-0065 AE10B3 15WG/65th AS Joint Base Hickam-Pearl Harbor HI) off ADW heading west.

1133- Unid HMX-1 acft (call missed) working discrete (277.175) & ADW tower (118.4), Wash Helo Control (134.35).

 

[RaleighGuy]

Air Force 2 - Noting transportation change today— press won’t be on AF2. Per VP’s office: The plane the Vice President and Second Gentleman took to Los Angeles had to be replaced overnight with a smaller plane because of required maintenance. Press and a majority of staff will fly on a support plane to Denver and Joint Base Andrews. VP is now on a C37 (small plane) and press and staff are on a military C17.

AF 2 is now 97-0400 AE010D GLF5 and press plane is RCH742T 88-0266 AE07CC C17