Posted on 11/16/2016 7:18:02 PM PST by bryan999
LOL
Probably a [Russian?] treaty verification aircraft, though it doesn’t look like one they manufacture.
Boeing E6 Mercury.
It looks like a KC-135. The orbit suggests a refuelling track but the dimensions of the orbit are not specific, only the shape. It could also be a holding pattern or simply part of a training aspect of the mission.
Flying to Oklahoma is not unusual either. They train KC-135 crews at Altus AFB and they do heavy depot maintenance for them and E-3A AWACS at Tinker AFB.
“Boeing E6 Mercury.”
I bet you are correct. In the link it says it flew off towards Oklahoma. That would probably be Tinker AFB. That also fits for it to be a E6.
I’m figuring an E6 that took off from Travis AFB, had some sort of training mission related to silo C&C - hence the time over CO, and landed at Tinker. Travis and Tinker are both E6 homes.
Looking for a new quarterback...
Watched one orbit over Ventura county years ago, and now and then you could pick out the faint contrails of fighters joining up.
Yep,Boeing E6 Mercury is precisely what that is. Looking Glass and USAF is not going to publicly tell anyone what that flight was. Strategic Recon and Nuclear Response communication.
Bingo
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Well, that was the first and last time I go to Cracked.com!
“Visually, the plane circled in a racetrack-style oval shape over the City of Denver at roughly 32,000 feet several times.”
Sounds like enroute holding.
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