Very random question for my Tallahassee residents...
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Just flew over Killearn! Someone look up! Lol tried to grab my camera... loud wide body jet...
Could it be a hurricane hunter hercules? NOAA and the AF have planes dedicated to weather. Hercules sounds like it fits the bill.
Obligatory...Could it be a hurricane hunter hercules? NOAA and the AF have planes dedicated to weather. Hercules sounds like it fits the bill.
Nevermind. Reread the thread and he said 2 engine, non military. Where the one I posted is a modified c130.Could it be a hurricane hunter hercules? NOAA and the AF have planes dedicated to weather. Hercules sounds like it fits the bill.
Maybe a State Dept plane or NOAA/NWS plane? I'm friends with a guy that's a contracted mechanic here at PAFB and he does work solely on State Dept helos. Says the feds (state/commerce/etc) have all sorts of planes in their arsenal you wouldn't expect.
No sir not like that either, it’s like a grayed out Airbus.Nevermind. Reread the thread and he said 2 engine, non military. Where the one I posted is a modified c130.
Maybe a State Dept plane or NOAA/NWS plane? I'm friends with a guy that's a contracted mechanic here at PAFB and he does work solely on State Dept helos. Says the feds (state/commerce/etc) have all sorts of planes in their arsenal you wouldn't expect.
Dats the closest to being it that I’ve seen. But the fuselage is longer on the one flying over Tally...Like dis?
P-8 Poseidon?
VP-16, nicknamed the War Eagles, is an active Patrol Squadron of the U.S. Navy. It has been based at NAS Jacksonville, Florida since its founding in 1946. The squadron's mission is to operate Maritime patrol aircraft to the fleet in support of national interests.
VP-16, nicknamed the War Eagles, is an active Patrol Squadron of the U.S. Navy. It has been based at NAS Jacksonville, Florida since its founding in 1946. The squadron's mission is to operate Maritime patrol aircraft to the fleet in support of national interests.
Could potentially be that top one but I swear the one that flies over has windows like a commercial airliner but no other markings.P-8 Poseidon?
VP-16, nicknamed the War Eagles, is an active Patrol Squadron of the U.S. Navy. It has been based at NAS Jacksonville, Florida since its founding in 1946. The squadron's mission is to operate Maritime patrol aircraft to the fleet in support of national interests.
Well the p8 is actually a 737, so maybe the gubment bought a used on and in the process of retrofitting or testing it out. You really need to get a pic of this.
This looks similar to what I have seen over Southwood.P-8 Poseidon?
VP-16, nicknamed the War Eagles, is an active Patrol Squadron of the U.S. Navy. It has been based at NAS Jacksonville, Florida since its founding in 1946. The squadron's mission is to operate Maritime patrol aircraft to the fleet in support of national interests.
I'm guessing the plane has been doing practice runs at the AP. Touch and go/takeoff to the south or east, take a sweeping turn over town at 2,000 or 3,000 feet then back to the AP. But why TLH?
I’ve never seen it on the “normal path” commercial jets use on landing approaches. And most of the time it’s flying low and headed east sorta hugging I-10. We’re gonna get to the bottom of this lol....
The one flying low over Tally earlier today was a Navy plane. I only know that because it flew right over me and it said "Navy" on the belly. I'm guessing it was a training exercise as it was flying very low and banking near the Capitol and Turlington buildings. It definitely got peoples attention.
It was a Navy plane. Doing touch and go's at the airport. Seems like it had an LC on the tail.
I don't know and my info may be useless. However you have a MAC terminal, several ANG and AF units nearby that need to train pilots. With several interstates that are useful it would make sense that getting pilots to learn how to navigate without technology makes sense. If things go wrong you still have plenty of places to put down. I don't know and will refer to F4 Gary
There's a Naval Air Station in Pensacola.
https://cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrse/installations/nas_pensacola/about.html
https://cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrse/installations/nas_pensacola/about.html
Probably just doing approaches or possibly touch and goes.
ANG doesn't provide a taxi service for their pilots.
TLH is not a busy airport, so it is perfect for the various military outfits to do practice instrument approaches.
ANG doesn't provide a taxi service for their pilots.
TLH is not a busy airport, so it is perfect for the various military outfits to do practice instrument approaches.
Whew now that this mystery has been solved, can we please get back to the best apples to eat? /sarcasm
Ok, so why is the B-21 “optionally manned” as opposed to either a true UAV or a normal airplane?
Just did a search and couldn't find anything current on it. I would imagine it's for many varied missions.
Doesn’t need to be manned to drop bombs on third world, but maybe you need a pilot in first world targets capable of EW.
Alright then different question, what is the point of having 100+ B-21s?
Supposedly the B-21 will have roughly half the payload of the B-2 but other than that is supposedly about the same (same slow 600 or thereabouts topspeed, but ultralong range and low radar visibility). So it’s a slow but sneaky bomber with long range but a relatively small payload. We obviously need a few of those for first strike type of options but I’m not sure of their value in taking on low grade third world targets.
The reason I say why do we need them is around the same time, no more than 2-5 years after the B-21s are in large numbers, we’re supposed to officially have large numbers of SR-72s/Auroras. Unlike the SR-71s which they denied as having a nuclear component for most of its life, the Pentagon is blatantly saying the SR-72 isn’t just a spy plane but a nuclear bomber. And the SR-72s conservatively will go Mach 6 (4,603 mph) with their scramjets, maybe even up to Mach 11 (8,439 mph) if the tinfoiler scientists are correct.
So if we’re going to publicly have a bunch of ultrafast, incredibly high (basically space), bombers that are essentially unstoppable until very long range and powerful lasers are deployed by the Russians and/or Chinese to perform the “first strike” nuclear deterrence, what’s the point of having a ton of low and slow stealthy ones? Some I get, you don’t want to assume the scramjet bomber is unstoppable because at some point chemical lasers will be viable of a strength to MAYBE knock down something they can see (Btw I don’t think we’re anywhere near that, probably 30-40 years, the US barely has lasers that can hit stationary targets from upclose currently in the public sphere). So I get the not all eggs in one basket, but it seems to me that 20-40 of them would be sufficient as a supplement to the SR-72s. (Plus this ignores the other spaceplanes we will/currently have probably that capable of deploying mass driver weapons that would have the destructiveness of a small nuke but no fallout).
So I still see a role for the B-52s, we need a platform that’s cheap and can drop tons of bombs on low tech opponents. I see the need for the hypersonic scramjet bombers with low payload but able to deliver one or two nukes in a currently unstoppable format for first strike. I see the continuing role for a FEW B-2s and B-21s for the alternative backup plan IF the enemy develops a way to counter the hypersonic craft. But I don’t see the need for 120+ of the B-21s.
(Sidenote, I am aware that the Pentagon is claiming the B-21s will also be useful as a kind of quasi AWACS station directing a huge swarm of drones around it, but they also claim that’s what the F-35 is going to do as a secondary role as well. And even if you believe that the future will be swarms of small drones using short distance lasers for defense and armed with bombs (even nukes) as suicidal offensive weapons, do we need 120+ of them?)
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Colonel Angus joke about a woman named Fiona Apple.
But that Apple is now rotten, she did NOT hold up like a lot of celebrity women.
Those are 2018 pics.
If you prefer the fantasy, she was quite a looker when she was 18-21 she just didn’t hold up well (see heroin).
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Yikes!Colonel Angus joke about a woman named Fiona Apple.
But that Apple is now rotten, she did NOT hold up like a lot of celebrity women.
