Military aircraft over DC!! Positive ID on US Air Force Nuclear Air Command "GOTO FMS"!

It's google earth that is located on the flight path website. click on the plane and the box appears that tells speed, altitude, etc.. While the box is still open, you can there are options on the right hand side, one of those options is flight path. The top option is the globe, if you hover over that you'll see that it says that is google earth. Click on it and you get to see the terrain the plane is flying.

While you on this part, there is a small box on lower left that gives an expanded view and has a + or - option. There was two planes and you could see then one plane flying from a cockpit view behind the first plane.

Now the plane is back to one. It had to be a glitch, but it did show two separate four engine planes.

I stand corrected, 2 plans again. Check it out.

I hope this link works for you. [link to 3d.planefinder.net]

I just tried it and it works. Wait for it, it will go from one plane to two planes.

There has to be a glitch. On the link I show only one plane, on the original page that I copied the link I see two.

Confirmed. This is like earlier today, when the east coast plane kept disappearing and reappearing until it eventually landed at Trapnell Field. I guess there's sensitive portions of the flight during which it's location can't be broadcast. Either that or its a glitch with the site.

Interesting. I didn't have that option for the east coast flight earlier.

Mystery solved. The second plane is labeled AA 2740. I guess if panes are close enough to the one we are following they show up. They are both still visible on my sight but now heading separate directions. I'm guessing the second plane I'm seeing was American Airlines.

And we are back to two planes on the actual flight radar original sight. Weird.

Can someone recap what were looking at?

Ok if I Iive near bwi should I be worried?

This

Mobile command seems to be elevate

There's a summary on the first page. At the moment people are following E6 Mercury flight paths. There was one over DC today, which hasn't happened since 9/11. It was traced to Trapnell Field in Maryland, after disappearing off radar. E6s are mobile nuclear command aircraft. There were three in the air at once, suggesting that we're at a heightened state of readiness. I also observed significant F-15 traffic over DC earlier.

Last Edited by TheOriginalMind on 04/21/2013 09:54 PM

Thanks. Now two are up?

This dude is either a super awesome updater & playing one heck of a journalist.

Or it's a bot.

Right. It seems that way. The east coast plane landed hours ago, but it looked like one of the remaining planes landed as well. The reports on the radar were confusing, but now it looks like there's two.

I go with bot

Good work op. I live 5 minutes from Pax River. I will have my eyes peeled to the area tomorrow. If I see anything strange above I will post here.

were they just fanning out across the US and then refuelling ready for a possible main event soon ?

Couldn't tell you. There's usually one E6 over the US every day, so something was happening. It looks like these three were each taking a third of the continental US.

keep on it op - needs a pin

well the web page says there are 10,000 airplanes
on that map.
when you first start out, how the hell do you find
an E6 in all of that?

You need to filter it. If you're using planefinder, you need to click map options > filter > scroll down and select walter I linkoping. You might also be able to find it using the callsign GOTO FMS.

UPDATE: Still two over the US.

Heading off to bed soon. Will check up on all this in the morning.

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