Okay. What unconventional aircraft left RIC about 19:12 today, headed more or less NW?
Looked like it might have had four engines. Sounded turbo-prop-y. Wings were 90 degrees to the fuselage.
Okay. What unconventional aircraft left RIC about 19:12 today, headed more or less NW?
Looked like it might have had four engines. Sounded turbo-prop-y. Wings were 90 degrees to the fuselage.
I don't see anything that really fits that description on the flight tracker. Is there a military base there? If so, military flights usually don't show up. C130 maybe?
90 degrees of sweep would put them parallel with the fuselage, as in no wings at all.
19:12 is 7:12 pm, not am.
90 degrees to the fuselage would be a right angle. I made no mention of sweep.
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
I wonder if it was one of the P3 Orions that NOAA operates ... they are usually based in Florida, but maybe they temporarily moved them due to the storm.
In reply to Slippery :
Possible.
I watched a p.180 come in to hanover this afternoon/evening:
Maybe you saw him leaving?
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
Looks like one is flying out of Houston, Tx.
The one flying out of Biloxi is a Herc.
Not sure where the second P3 is.
1988RedT2 said:19:12 is 7:12 pm, not am.
90 degrees to the fuselage would be a right angle. I made no mention of sweep.
Ha. That was dumb of me. Not looking better at 7pm either. My money's on a military plane.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/ric/departures
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/ric/arrivals
Only thing on fight radar are commercial flights that I see in that range
I work out there not far off laburnum often and tons of military flights down to Norfolk or up to DC come through that never show up on trackers. Also Air force 1 practicing touch and goes has been spotted.
Slippery said:I wonder if it was one of the P3 Orions that NOAA operates ... they are usually based in Florida, but maybe they temporarily moved them due to the storm.
Completely off-topic, but my high school was under the approach path for Moffett Field, and in the late 80s it was the main P3 base for the west coast. I saw a LOT of P3s overhead, seemed like it was one every 3-4 minutes pretty much all day every day.
In reply to codrus (Forum Supporter) :
Glenview north of Chicago was the same for me. P-3s all day long.
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