Saw something “massive” today.
Got out of the car in front of a burger joint and caught 6 parallel contrails flying west to east directly over north central Dallas at about 1:17 pm central time.
There was a large center aircraft, three smaller ones in echelon right and two more in echelon left formation.
They were not doing anything fancy, just cruising at about 15,000 ft.
I have lived here almost all my life and have never seen anything like it.
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I'm betting that it was a KC-135 or KC-10 with one on the boom and the rest in tow waiting their turn.
Midair refueling.
CC
Strange that you should mention that- I too saw something really strange late this morning, above Pflugerville’s Austin Executive Airport- I saw one of those large turboprop aircraft flying in a circle for about 45 minutes, seemingly going nowhere. Looking back on it, I think maybe he was going up gradually, then took out in a westerly direction. He must have made at least 12 or 15 laps before leaving the area.
Sounds like they may have been practicing in-flight refueling. Or possibly a deployment.