Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2022

[Mark]

OT USS Gerald Ford into UK Portsmouth.. Seems at 57 second mark in vid some US sailor decides to be a comedian.
Hope he gets confined to ship duty
No biggie but shows no class for this numbskull.
These fan cams are getting better all the time zooming in on everything.
That Carrier sure has lots of radars and antennas
The Awesome $13B USS Gerald R Ford Super Carrier Visits Portsmouth England - YouTube

 

[wbagley]

Odd that 74-0787 is showing on ADSB as DOLE18, it's still listed on ACARS as GRIM99. Maybe the pilot was playing with the transponder entry?

Looks like somebody got the word that the E-4B callsign is really GRIM 99.

In the civilian world with scheduled airlines, if you type something wrong in the FMS initialization page ident box on a Boeing it really messes things up. You get calls from Air Traffic Control and an ACARS message to call Flight Ops when you land. Don't ask me how I know...

 

[wbagley]

OT USS Gerald Ford into UK Portsmouth..
That Carrier sure has lots of radars and antennas
The Awesome $13B USS Gerald R Ford Super Carrier Visits Portsmouth England - YouTube

I find it interesting that the Ford is flying the UK Royal Navy's White Ensign in addition to the Stars and Stripes. I had thought that the USS Winston S. Churchill DDG-81 was the only U.S. warship authorized to fly a foreign ensign.

Winston S. Churchill is also the only U.S. Naval vessel to fly a foreign ensign. Being named after a Briton, the Royal Navy's White Ensign is honorarily flown on special occasions from the ship's mast, on the port side, whereas the U.S. flag is flown from the starboard side. However, during normal operations, only the U.S. flag is flown on the center of the main mast.

USS Winston S. Churchill - Wikipedia

 

[MMID303]

P-8 is back tonight over KHGR.

 

[MMID303]

Which one? I have 4 SNC freqs and didn't copy any traffic.

I'm sorry I didn't specify. I also have several. Don't remember which one it was. Looks like theres 5 discrete channels.

 

[Tech792]

A little off topic. Nice US Navy produced video of Naval Station Norfolk

 

[mdmonitor]

0805- Reach 405 (C-17 # 04-4133 6th AS) off BWI (119.4). Didn't hear him arrive & he took off to the west out of my view. C-17 is rare visitor into BWI. Worked Potomac (124.55) & ZDC Baltimore (134.5) on way out. He's heading northeast.

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary (does not include POTUS, VPOTUS, FLOTUS travel)

DATE: 16 Nov

SAM 500 (C-37 # 99-0402) Los Angeles-ADW
SAM 619 (C-37 # 06-0500) ADW-Boston
SAM 453 (C-37 # 20-1949) ADW-Miami
SAM 643 (C-37 # 09-0525) Los Angeles-ADW

 

[mdmonitor]

0850- Glare 25 (MC-12W # 08-0336 SNC) working Potomac (126.825) inbound to Hagerstown. Departed from NAS Lakehurst.

0900- BOE 94 (C-17 # 06-6167 3rd AS) off DOV heading west.

 

[Bearcat15]

1010 - Town 67 (KC-46 21-46061) and Town 68 (KC-46 21-46057) on 324.60 northbound over Long Island into Connecticut, sounds like refueling operations with practice emergency separation

 

[krokus]

OT USS Gerald Ford into UK Portsmouth.. Seems at 57 second mark in vid some US sailor decides to be a comedian.
Hope he gets confined to ship duty
No biggie but shows no class for this numbskull.

You can be sure that the USN will track him down, and make him regret that action. Restriction to the ship is likely to be involved.

That Carrier sure has lots of radars and antennas

Yes it does. I'm curious if the SPY-3 messes with video recording as much as the SPS-49 used to.

 

[N4TX]

DECOY69 00-0182, a C-17 from Martinsburg, just went off the radar at 625 feet apparently going into the North Air Force Auxiliary Field near Orangeburg, SC. Field seems to have a short runway and is used often for C-17 practice.

 

[vgames15]

1320 - EPIC 77 02-1107 inbound to ILG with 1 aircraft set of props for 166th c-130’s

 

[wbagley]

E-4Bs swap out for the Andrews standby mission.

 

[wbagley]

C-40s SPAR 12 and 16 eastbound from Scott AFB, Illinois chat on 303.0. SPAR 16 says they have nine people on board, all crew.

C-21 SPAR 665, also ex-BLV, does not appear to be in the conversation.

 

[N4TX]

Epic 34, a C-17, landed at MRB at 1355 Local, coming from Stewart ANG Base in New York.

 

[N4TX]

DECOY69 00-0182, a C-17 from Martinsburg, just went off the radar at 625 feet apparently going into the North Air Force Auxiliary Field near Orangeburg, SC. Field seems to have a short runway and is used often for C-17 practice.

And at 1441L, he's back landing at MRB.

 

[mdmonitor]

1449- E-4B Order 01 landing at ADW (118.4).

 

[Mark]

Epic 34, a C-17, landed at MRB at 1355 Local, coming from Stewart ANG Base in New York.

EPIC-77 C-17 #02-1107 just off KILG enroute KPIA Peoria. Guess Del ANG got a lot of props today.
Maybe going to Illinois to pick up or deliver more? Prob can get a mess of props on a C-17
EPIC77 Flight Tracking and History 15-Nov-2022 (KCLT-KWRB) - FlightAware

 

[Hbright]

The Anchorage TFR is for VP Harris' westbound refueling stop reroute Thailand. She'll be taking SAM298 99-0003 and SAM460 98-0002. SecState Blinken is already in Bangkok having flown from Bali on SAM362.

After a second refueling stop in Japan, only 98-0001 continued on to Bangkok, where it dropped Harris off and is back out. Looks like it’s heading back to Japan. Blinken’s jet is still on the ground. Maybe they only wanted one plane there. Odd that the parking spot is all the way in Japan, not Papa Lebar in Singapore.