Airplane ID?
Apr 26, 2014 20:24:02 #
I was waiting to go to my grandsons baseball game and saw this plane overhead. It did not look like a commercial airliner with 4 contrails. I had 55-250 lens and snapped this at 250 on Canon 70D.
Apr 26, 2014 20:58:22 #
Apr 26, 2014 22:26:51 #
Thanks for ID. I do not remember seeing one before. It was dramatic against clear blue sky. It was heading SW over Bloomington, Indiana
Apr 26, 2014 23:42:48 #
Robert R wrote:
I was waiting to go to my grandsons baseball game and saw this plane overhead. It did not look like a commercial airliner with 4 contrails. I had 55-250 lens and snapped this at 250 on Canon 70D.
The wing design makes me think it is a heavy lifter, maybe a C-17. Where was this taken?
Apr 26, 2014 23:46:24 #
davidrb wrote:
The wing design makes me think it is a heavy lifter, maybe a C-17. Where was this taken?
I was thinking much the same thing. It reminds me of a C141 Starlifter although the paint job isn't what I would normally expect.
Apr 26, 2014 23:56:40 #
Robert R wrote:
Thanks for ID. I do not remember seeing one before. It was dramatic against clear blue sky. It was heading SW over Bloomington, Indiana
Airbus 380's are way too large to be at this altitude in S/W Indiana unless some carrier is using them to service Naptown. Who in Indianapolis is arriving overseas flights? A C-17 departing Louisville's field might be vectored to this area. The 380 just does not belong at this altitude at this location.
Apr 26, 2014 23:59:46 #
1stJedi wrote:
I was thinking much the same thing. It reminds me of a C141 Starlifter although the paint job isn't what I would normally expect.
Can't be a C-141 unless the museum-piece @ Wright-Patt is up in the air, there are no others left. Sad but true!
Apr 27, 2014 00:32:32 #
Airbus A380 maybe - definitely not a C-141. Possibly a C-17 too. It's hard to get the magnitude of the size from the photo.
Apr 27, 2014 00:40:06 #
davidrb wrote:
Can't be a C-141 unless the museum-piece @ Wright-Patt is up in the air, there are no others left. Sad but true!
I was unaware that they had been completely fazed out. It was a remarkable platform and when combined with the capabilities of a Galaxy C5, we had quite the delivery system.
Apr 27, 2014 06:34:28 #
That looks like the latest AIRBUS A380.
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a380family/
http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/passengeraircraft/a380family/
Apr 27, 2014 10:12:45 #
Robert R wrote:
I was waiting to go to my grandsons baseball game and saw this plane overhead. It did not look like a commercial airliner with 4 contrails. I had 55-250 lens and snapped this at 250 on Canon 70D.
This is what I found if that can help !!
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Apr 27, 2014 10:53:39 #
Apr 27, 2014 10:54:02 #
1stJedi wrote:
I was unaware that they had been completely fazed out. It was a remarkable platform and when combined with the capabilities of a Galaxy C5, we had quite the delivery system.
The C-141 was an incredible workhorse. The aircraft literally kept Israel alive during Yom Kimpor 1973. It's only inadequacies were it's limits on fuel range and carrying out-sized vehicles. In-flight refueling answered the range question, but the fuselage could not be expanded. Thus, the aircraft was destined to become a pawn in the SALT. We destroyed all C-141 A/C for whatever USSR gave up. Not a bad deal, actually. An out-dated A/C that would never have flown again was completely eliminated from inventory and was used as a bargaining chip in a disarmament treaty. How fitting.
Apr 27, 2014 11:28:58 #
FRENCHY wrote:
This is what I found if that can help !!
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That really looks like the Airbus A380. It was not as low as the photo makes it look. The sky was blue, no clouds, really stood out with the 4 contrails. I used 55-250 Canon lens, at 250, not including the crop factor. It still looked like a small spot in sky on the original, and the photo is cropped about to the max. Thanks for the help.
Apr 27, 2014 14:30:00 #
Jandd
Loc: Niagara Region Ontario Canada
I don't know the airplane ID.
Similar sights can be seen almost any day and anywhere. Easiest and most frequently in a clear blue sky.
Check out Geo-engineering, and or chemtrails and you'll very likely recognize the similarity with the picture shown.
Similar sights can be seen almost any day and anywhere. Easiest and most frequently in a clear blue sky.
Check out Geo-engineering, and or chemtrails and you'll very likely recognize the similarity with the picture shown.
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