The Briefing Room
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Atomic Cow on April 24, 2012, 02:38:27 am
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Flying about 35,000 feet over Dallas. I was waiting on the next aircraft to depart DFW, so I saw this overhead and took a shot of it; 400mm just isn't enough to get a great shot.
(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p312/CO757300/Temp/th_IMG_2608.jpg) (http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p312/CO757300/Temp/IMG_2608.jpg)
Now, I've figured it out, but I want to see if any one else here can do it. There are 4 things which give away what it is.
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Is it an Airbus A380?
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Is it an Airbus A380?
Nope
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V71-727?
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Nope
Airbus A340 or Boeing 747
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Nope & Nope
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Russian?
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Is it an Airbus A380?
A Boeing 707?
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A Boeing 707?
Yes, sorta, but it's not civilian, which is what the 707 technically is.
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Mike says it's a 747 modified to haul the shuttle around?
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Mike says it's a 747 modified to haul the shuttle around?
Nope
It's a 707 airframe. Easiest way to tell this is the HF antenna sticking forward from the top of the vertical tail. However, it is not civilian.
Hint: It is not a KC-135 Stratotanker
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AWACS
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AWACS
Closer, but no radar dome above it.
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Closer, but no radar dome above it.
Hmmmmm.....
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Could it be one of the old AF1's?
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Could it be one of the old AF1's?
All out of service.
What gave it away to me is that it is using CFM-56 engines and the pods on the wingtips. Only one type of military aircraft has both and lacks any additional addons.
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All out of service.
What gave it away to me is that it is using CFM-56 engines and the pods on the wingtips. Only one type of military aircraft has both and lacks any additional addons.
Yeah I know I thought maybe they were flying it somewhere..
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it has to be a tanker then?
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it has to be a tanker then?
Not a tanker.
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damn....
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Command and control aircraft...C2C2....something like that Mike says..in Iraq they called them the High Bird?
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Boeing E-6 Mercury
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Boeing E-6 Mercury
You got it.
http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7350096 (http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7350096) (Not taken by me)
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smarty pants...
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smarty pants...
I'm an old Air Force kid. ;-) My dad was in both the Conn. ANG and USAF in Korea. I could identify most common commercial and military a/c by the time I was 10.
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Bravo Andy!
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I'm an old Air Force kid. ;-) My dad was in both the Conn. ANG and USAF in Korea. I could identify most common commercial and military a/c by the time I was 10.
I am an air force brat too!......
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Boeing E6 TACAMO would be my guess
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It's a Piper Cub
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I'm an old Air Force kid. ;-) My dad was in both the Conn. ANG and USAF in Korea. I could identify most common commercial and military a/c by the time I was 10.
Cool!