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Navy ‘Doomsday Plane’ Spotted in Colorado
Defensetech ^ | November 18th, 2016 | By: Brendan McGarry

Posted on 11/18/2016 6:53:30 PM PST by Mariner

A routine training flight by the U.S. Navy’s E-6B Mercury “doomsday plane” captured the attention of sky-watchers this week in Colorado.

The four-engine command-and-control plane based on Boeing Co.’s 707 airliner on Wednesday took off from Travis Air Force Base in California and circled over Denver before continuing on to Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma.

It was apparently the hour-long racetrack holding pattern that turned the heads.

“Did you see this today?” a newscaster at the KMGH, the local ABC affiliate, asked during a broadcast. “There was this plane just circling the metro, circling and circling, and many of you called us asking what was going on.”

The station initially reported the identity of the plane “a mystery” but provided an update the following day.

In a telephone interview with Military.com, Lt. Leslie Hubbell, a spokeswoman for Naval Air Forces in San Diego, said there was nothing unusual about the plane or the flight. The Federal Aviation Administration directed the Mercury to fly the pattern it did around Denver, she said, presumably because of air traffic.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: denver; doomsdayplane; e6b; iron99; tinkerafb; usn
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To: SkyPilot

Some are jumping through ***holes.

See # 20

:)


21 posted on 11/18/2016 8:20:18 PM PST by Strac6 (My Sig Sauer, My Pilatus, Mrs. Strac... all the fun things in my life are Swiss)
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To: Mariner

Scares me to death to know that Obama has a complete working knowledge of our intel infra structure


22 posted on 11/18/2016 8:35:58 PM PST by Be Careful
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To: SkyPilot

I would see a bunch of E-6’s flying out of Tinker whenever I in town visiting. Even went to the airpark at Tinker. Cool stuff.

I remember when a plain white E-4 NAOC bird flew around just after 9/11. Maybe it was a special variant but people were seeing all sorts of conspiracy in a bird from what was most likely part of the NAOC fleet.


23 posted on 11/18/2016 8:37:06 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Mariner

Trump needs to create resources and assets that will be out of Obamas perview


24 posted on 11/18/2016 8:37:08 PM PST by Be Careful
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To: SaveFerris
The E-6 and the E-4 are going on 35 years old. There is nothing to worry about here. Trust me on this.
25 posted on 11/18/2016 8:45:51 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Mariner

Watch the video people. It is spreading chemtrails. Its normal procedure that everyone denies is happening. Go out on clear days and you will see it happening. Its just that people in Colorado have there heads in the sand.


26 posted on 11/18/2016 8:50:03 PM PST by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: gaijin

Taking photos of the supermoon?


27 posted on 11/18/2016 8:58:20 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SkyPilot

I thought it looked like a KC-135 without the refueling boom on the back! I worked on the KC-135 back in 1967-1969.


28 posted on 11/18/2016 8:59:28 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Crush your enemies, ..... and to hear the lamentations of their women.)
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To: SaveFerris

Oops - nope - heard a variation that I thought happened before they got McDD.


30 posted on 11/19/2016 12:33:22 AM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Mariner

At least the engines have been updated. When I first heard 707 I was thinking turbojets.


31 posted on 11/19/2016 4:28:54 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Mariner

How about training?


32 posted on 11/19/2016 4:30:53 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Does America still have lots of safe closet?)
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To: Mariner

Sounds like just some basic enroute holding.


33 posted on 11/19/2016 6:31:08 AM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: Strac6

Standard holding patterns are right turns.


34 posted on 11/19/2016 6:32:39 AM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: SkyPilot

“The E-6 and the E-4 are going on 35 years old.”

For Tacamo, it’s not the airframe that matters. Just need something big enough for the generators and the transmitter. And the antenna reel.

We used to fly the EC-130Q.

And you are correct, if it was performing it’s mission we’d all likely be dead by now.

Training and/or transit. They have to keep moving. Can’t be in one place too long. It’s likely the #1 strategic target in the world.

We were always told if we ever light ‘er off for real, we had 20mins to live.


35 posted on 11/19/2016 6:39:07 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_Hat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_Essential_Emergency_Communications_Network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACAMO

A little light, doomsday reading for you Saturday morning.


36 posted on 11/19/2016 6:53:38 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ops33

Vast majority of mine are LH


37 posted on 11/19/2016 7:15:47 AM PST by Strac6 (My Sig Sauer, My Pilatus, Mrs. Strac... all the fun things in my life are Swiss)
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To: Mariner

Amen. I am ready for the Aliens to be broadcast LIVE on CNN. But if this passes for “journalism”, they would be better served cleaning my 5 bedroom house and 3 toilets.


38 posted on 11/19/2016 8:19:08 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Strac6

When I went through air traffic control school I was taught, since the pilot sits on the left side of the aircraft, standard turns in a traffic pattern were to the left so the pilot can keep the airport in sight. Conversely, standard turns in a holding pattern were to the right so the pilot could see the airspace outside of the holding pattern. I’ve put many aircraft into a holding pattern and the few times I required the aircraft to make left turns I had to state “left turns” in the holding clearance. Absent any instructions the pilot will make right turns. source FAAO 7110.65W, para 4-6-4e.


39 posted on 11/19/2016 8:38:41 AM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: ops33

I know, but I always liked left turns, (and often request them if terrain or other traffic is not an issue) so I can “see where I’m going” especially if we are on an IFR flight plan, but holding below FL 180 in VFR.


40 posted on 11/19/2016 10:09:11 AM PST by Strac6 (My Sig Sauer, My Pilatus, Mrs. Strac... all the fun things in my life are Swiss)
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