No, they are indeed the last production 707 type aircraft.
Posted on 10/02/2020 8:13:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An eagle eyed plane spotter in Hawaii raised suspicions that the president could be incapacitated moments before news broke that he had tested positive for coronavirus.
Two E-6B Mercury jets – known as the Navy’s doomsday planes – were launched off both the east and west coast in the early hours of the morning.
The planes are designed to fly aerobatic-like manoeuvres over the sea that allows them to send messages to ballistic missile submarines hiding below, effectively safeguarding the country in the event that the White House is immobilised.
In an atomic war, the E-6s would relay directions to help target enemy cities and military bases with nuclear-tipped Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles, or SLBMs.
Here's another E6-B that just popped up visible on MLAT on the west coast. IMO Stratcom wants them to be seen. pic.twitter.com/nvN03Rnnh9— Tim Hogan (@TimInHonolulu) October 2, 2020
It could be no accident that E-6s were airborne over both coasts in the minutes before Trump’s announcement that he was infected. “I would expect them to pop up if he tests positive,” tweeted Tim Hogan, an American open-source intelligence practitioner.
Hogan tracked the E-6s on public software that registers airplanes’ radio transponders. Military planes often switch off their transponders in order to avoid being tracked. If a military jet’s transponders are on, it’s because their crews want to be seen.
In the case of the E-6s, “it’s a message to the small group of adversaries with SLBMs and ICBMs,” Hogan noted.
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He tested positive. He’s not sick.
Oh my gosh! We are all going to die!!!!
...sarc
Aerobatic? In a Boeing 707 based plane? If anything you would want straight and level to trail a long antenna for low frequency communication with the subs.
The USAF has four E-4B’s ready in case of a national emergency. I wonder is one of them currently “on patrol” as I type this.
How silly
First point
this is a brilliant PR move by our great and wonderful and Wiley and compassionate and incredible president Donald J Trump
The first thing I thought when I heard it is “it’s a PR move !”
and I don’t even know if it’s true or not that he has the bed but I doubt it and even if he does have the bed nothings going to happen to our very vigorous president
Secondpoint
Nuclear weapons are the only reason why this world remains peaceful
Partisan Media Shills update.
Testing positive for COVID-19 will be the biggest blow to his adversaries that President Trump could experience.
99.8% chance of recovery, or something like that. Regeneron antibody cocktail as potential COVID-19 treatment To this end, Regeneron developed the REGN-COV2 antibodies to bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and block its interaction with the host receptor, which is expected to neutralize the virus. The clinical trial will test the safety, tolerability and efficacy of REGN-COV2 as a promising therapeutic strategy to reduce SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding and COVID-19 disease progression. Information on the clinical study (# NCT04426695), titled Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Anti-Spike (S) SARS-CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibodies for Hospitalized Adult Patients With COVID-19, can be found online. The clinical trial launched June 11.
And why do we know this and why is it being reported? Can nothing be kept a secret?
They’re 747s, but you’re right, what a silly statement. I have worked in aviation for many years, and am a private pilot, and the media’s complete lack of understanding of aviation always drives me up the wall.
I can verify this. I see people recovering from COVID-19 everyday. I think in the hundreds thus far. So far, the vast majority have no symptoms or very light symptoms like fever, loss of taste etc for about 48 hours.
I’ve had a few with GI complaints, sore throat.
In 10 days we return them to work. No retesting is done of them.
I think Trump handled the virus correctly in its early stages, as the death rate would have been higher, but clearly the virus is dissipating and its virulence is lower.
I think now is the time to open up society again, and let people live again. If they get the virus it won’t be a big deal.
Actually, I amend my comment because I just remembered that you’re right, they are 707-based. I was thinking of the E4.
I seem to recall my father telling me that at Seafair in Seattle back in the day, they had a 707 doing barrel rolls over Lake Washington. He also told me that they’d test the planes doing unnatural acts as part of the rigorous testing of the first plane(s). My dad was an engineer on the 747 project.
No, they are indeed the last production 707 type aircraft.
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