Here's Why An E-6B Doomsday Plane Was Flying Tight Circles Off The Jersey Shore Today

The Drive ^

[ameribbean expat]

Pics at link.

[Grimmy]

When I read the title I was thinking EA6B Prowler.

The pic at the link confused me for a bit.

[Blurb2350]

Fascinating! Thanks for posting.

[Oscar in Batangas]

Me, too.
Showing some of my age, I guess

[rlmorel]

Me too.

[novemberslady]

Thanks

[CivilWarBrewing]

Loose lips sink submarines.

[Keyga8tor]

Got 3k hours doing that mission. Great platform, had a tshirt with a mushroom cloud in the background with ..Now it’s Miller Time!

[tallyhoe]

I helped build the E-6 Navy version!

[Rebelbase]

Message: POTUS impeached by committee.

[mrsmith]

Ha! I’ve never wondered hoe the VLF signals were sent.
Quite a production.

[Perseverando]

My first thoughts, too. Not this EA-6B:

[cba123]

Good point.

I am American, and there is nothing about me, which is threatening.

I’ve never even been in the military.

But I am in Thank Pho Ho Chi Minh (Saigon), and I had never heard about that. And there are certainly people out here, with rather more anti-American motivations than me.

So that is a very good point.

:)

[steve86]

Are you telling me the VLF transmissions aren’t circularly polarized?

[SuperLuminal]

Didn’t the obungholers in the defense department convert the plane’s mission to great-white tracking? /s

[The Duke]

Nah, they decided to track all the whites, not just the great ones. :O

[smokingfrog]

We’re goin’ downtown, Jake,

[Mariner]

Gee, when I flew with VQ-3 we were not “known” as the doomsday plane.

But we were.

Then we were just known as the Iron Men.

[Mariner]

You flew with VQ-3?

I did.

Long ago.

EC-130Q

[Mariner]

“Are you telling me the VLF transmissions aren’t circularly polarized?”

Vertical if TACAMO.

For shore stations like Jim Creek in Washington, they appeared to me to be horizontally polarized with and entire mountain of 4in copper cable as the ground field.

Hell, the primary amp tube was 30ft tall copper dome.