Captured just moments ago. Two planes without call signs flying over Long Island. One is flying 500 feet above the other.
Captured just moments ago. Two planes without call signs flying over Long Island. One is flying 500 feet above the other.
Looks like 1 or two KC-135 tankers - might be some in air refueling going on
I wish we had a plane fag list.
Something really weird happened yesterday. A daughter ran in to get me, “Come see this weird plane!”
By the time I got outside I couldnt read the writing but the aircraft was quite close and far too low. A jet of some size, not the little puddle jumper things that would land on the grass runways around here. Too big to land at the little city air fields where small jets land. I dont know the model, the smallest you would see at a big city airport used by the major carriers. The nearest airport of any significance is 46(?) miles away. We see large aircraft all the time way up there heading off to some distant city, nothing close or slow showing that its approaching/taking off like when I lived near a bit city airport years ago or an air base.
It was low and kind of slow. It kind of swung side to side as it flew. The path was headed just north of east and it would seem to stabilize in the swing and go slightly north then swing side to side and align a couple more degrees to the north repetitively. It was still quite low, a couple hundred feet?, as it headed out over Lake Michigan.
Everything about it was really weird. Never heard anything in the news about a passenger craft flopping into the drink. Im just glad I wasnt on it.
Those are refuelers flying training.
One holding under the other so the newbie pilot (on top) can get a “feel” for having jets match speed and then “lift” into the refueling line behind.
It isn’t easy keep a steady speed and track.
Practice makes perfect.