PlaneFags: NightWatch landed today in FLA and is now flying North.
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MODS: Don't delete this please as there is no sticky'd PlaneFag post right now. Anyway, Nightwatch is the Doomsday Plane, basically an Air Force 1 on 'Steroids'. POTUS would fly on this if there were an attack on the States. Another side note, there is currently no TFR over Mar A Lago unlike the other ex POTUS' have like Dubya. A TFR is a flight restriction over an area and if Trump were at Mar A Lago he would have one. https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr2/list.jsp
How often does nightwatch normally travel? Is it always in regular use to some capacity?
They very, but this doomsday plane has been flying pretty regularly this last week. It spent some time in NC, then went to NE and then down to FL
So this isn't the big guy doomsday plane. These are all called Nightwatch but the E4B 95-0125 is THE doomsday plane. it is the only one of its kind and has defense against nuclear emps. There are 3 other planes that can be used as general doomsday planes. 73-1677 which is in FL where the 0787 just took off from, the 0787, and the 73-1676 which was last seen in San Antonio
True, just really curious why no Flight Restriction over Mar A Lago unlike other ex POTUS' that have one, like Dubya near Dallas. https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr2/list.jsp
That is what I was attempting to insinuate. Monkey Werx has a great video on how his TFR disappeared right after a C-17 left the airport.
FFS, You are the epitome of a narcissistic-condescending cunt. You're history is textbook proving what I claimed. You refuse to do your own research, instead insisting that you are spoon-fed everything rather than doing your own research.
Is there a way to show the TFR's on that globe plane site? I can't find it in the settings
This is new to me, so I apologize before hand for asking an ignorant question. Why is it called "doomsday" plane? Is there a nuclear weapon on board the plane? Edit: Ok.. n/m.. just saw itsdazzling's response 2 comments above.
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aa9f97 oh shit this plane took off in miami and is riding the tail of the e48. edit: not mar a lago, miami.
It just disappeared.......
yuge find
40000 ft!
that plane looks like it is coming from Grand Rapids, MI. It made a big swing through Miami and is headed back up for some reason Edit: plane is registered in Grand Rapids, it's civilian. https://flightaware.com/photos/view/49689-1213657425-b78f11da06c5b23761533ff856bc0206667682a8/aircrafttype/LJ40
how can you filter it so you can see this guy and gibby001 together and only them?
We're all watching it.
I’m watching you watch the guys watch it. I love loving this stuff.
What/when did GEOTUS speak about people outside the Oval Office ?
https://communities.win/c/GreatAwakening/p/11SJxxASzw/potus-points-outside-and-says-iv/c/
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Have been watching since it departed Offutt. Will be interested to know when it's going.
And why did it land?? That aircraft has tremendous range as well as in air refueling capability.
Nah man, they had to pick up the Diet Coke button for the plane. I heard it's no longer being used in the Oval.
Poso claims to have it, which I kind of don't believe.
Believe it or not, doomsday planes have to land at least briefly prior to mating as part of their courtship ritual. Source: PhD Planefagologist with a Specialty in Copulation
As of 5:30 pm PST it is landing at Wright Patterson.
3 refueling tankers? Leaving DC..
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae04ff,ae04ec,ae050a
There's a Hercules riding next to it, too
EDIT: I think they may have picked up the NE national guard
It’s just this kind of “we have several Doomsday planes and that’s, just, you know, the start” thing that would make me trepidatious to have to fight against the U.S. Armed Forces with my AR, an ammo shortage, and a backpack of granola bars... so I’m glad to know that they’re ultimately going to remain on our side.
I have no idea what any of this means, but it's provocative.
Yeah.
Like when the Thai place asks you “How spicy? 0 to 5 star? How spicy you want it?”
And you say “Maybe, like, one and a half stars.”
It’s still gonna have some spice.
I've been there, but due to my buddy and I trying to out-do each other. We would watch the cooks in the back laughing as they add more and more peppers to the dish.
Thank goodness there was no TP shortage when we were doing that......
Sometimes I wonder about if certain groups just lack taste buds and that's why they insist on so much spice. That and are they just used to having to deal with substandard meat, the better the protein the less spice you want on it.
I love spicy food, and usually go with 3 (unless I’m sharing it with my wife, and then 0 stars), but will sometimes go with 4, but on few experiences with 5, it’s not merely 1 notch hotter than 4, but is more of an invitation to the chef to *make it hurt.
It’s like 1 star = a little spicy, 2 stars, 3, stars, 4 stars, each a little more spicy than the prior... and then 5 stars = ALL THE SPICY, turn the spice jar upside down and the chef smacks the bottom until his hand hurts.
In summary, I love spicy food, and want Thai right now.
Have been watching since it was heading to FL. Odd. Also, the E-6 over the gulf kept turning its ADS-B transponder on and off. It's heading back toward OKC now and another airborne out of Pax. Probably nothing, though.
It might have been an error with it. Tinker Air Force base is in OKC and does all sorts of repairs on military aircraft.
Yeah, Tinker is home base for the E-6. Both squadrons and the wing are there, plus the training contingent. I've seen two different E-6's this past week do the same over the gulf, but like you said, could be a system problem.
Why did it change call sign from GORDO16 to GIBBY 01? Anyone know?
Hmm
It's been operating as GORDO16 for about a week now. Maybe it changed when it took off in FL, sometimes the radars don't pick up the callsigns right away.
Good Question!
Speaking of weird callsigns the other day I saw a B52 flying around the midwest with the callsign DOOM82.
GORDO16
Changed to GIBBY01 about a minute ago
Where is she headed...? That combined with the 73's up are interesting.
It's flying the same path of Nightwatch before, let's see if it's going to FL.
Any update?
Descending in Florida. Maybe Eglin afb, but still high
Isn’t this plane supposed to follow POTUS around? Where’s Pres Biden going? </shitpost>
Crap ton of cargo transports leaving the DC area, was expected with some states withdrawing their troops. Hope the link works like the other planefag's do.
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfdc8,adfe6e,adfe6f,adfeb5,ae03e1,ae04ec,ae04ff,ae050a,ae07ce,ae07e8,ae10c0,ae1456
Thanks for that post!
Are they not always flying?
From an aircraft maintenance perspective, on of the worst things for a bird is to sit on the ground, neglected.
This planes been flying pretty regularly. The big guy doesn't fly as often because it costs a fortune
ADFEB5.......All Done on February 5th? One can only hope.
possibly headed to wright patterson...whats stored there?
There's two E-6's that are playing transponder hide and seek since before noon today. That's iron27 and holt 41. E-6 is Navy C&C . Gordo has now changed to Gibby 01. Lots of activity for a Sunday. Keep us safe boys.
Okay, there is an Air Force base in Tampa, near where the plane's travel path begins, but, uhhh, how do I say this... The plane's travel path begins in a bayou (Placido Bayou Reserves) with no airport/runway....
I thought, maybe that's just where they turned on their transponder after takeoff, but I don't see a runway that aligns with that (In the same direction of travel, so to the west of the starting point), and it would've been at 500 ft or lower, soooo.... I'm pretty confused
Also, the plane did a hard right turn over very little ground covered, zoom in, that should be physically impossible for a plane of that size. A fighter jet would struggle to do a hard right turn like that, and I don't even know if a fighter jet could do that without the aerodynamic stresses tearing it to pieces.
Dunno what the fuck that means, or how it's even possible, maybe you Q people can tell me?
I’ve actually observed Night76 make a sharp right turn before. Remember you’re looking at a map so what appears like turning on a dime could still happen with a radius of miles. But yes, full 90 turn looks unusual when normally just seeing gradual curves and autopilot straight lines. Many possible explanations: mid-fight destination change, intentional misdirection, weather rerouting, Crazy Ivan, KEK
Something is going on.. 3 herkies flying in spaced formation with 3 K35Rs out of DC... https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfe75,adfe6e,adfe6f,ae04ec,ae04ff,ae050a edit: And they just crossed paths with NightWatch...
One of the HUSKRs at least is the NE national guard's plane, I think they are picking them up and bringing them home
See that, too. They all came from NE and stopped briefly in DC, I'm guessing a pickup or a drop-off. Weird that they would run all of these planes together
K35r's aren't necessarily tankers...
In the 60's 4 K35's were converted Rivet Stand (Later Rivet Quick) configuration for reconnaissance and evaluation of above ground nuclear test and renamed KC35R, something similar could definitively be at play here, a special purpose conversion for some other use...
Oh neat, I didn't know that! Thank you!
the 130s could be troops pulling out of DC...states have said they were going to do that.
Is this not a bit odd? Military ERJ-135 headed up the East Coast from Ecuador. Seems a bit unusual. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=e84035
Just loked and it disappeared. Hard to tell with some of these as they could squawk as one thing and be totally different aircraft.
I always forget to keep this in mind when watching this stuff. Thanks!
But if Trump were picked up there, wouldn't there have been a no fly zone over Trump in FL?
Monkey Werx has a great video on the TFR that was over Mar A Lago and then disappeared after a C-17 took off, leading him to speculate that POTUS left on that C-17 and is somewhere safe. We have to remember, Trump was recruited by the MIL to run in 2016 and get rid of you know who. The MIL has his back, even more so after him opening up his Hotel to the NG after the Dems shoved them into a garage.
Look back at pics of POTUS and the troops and they really do love him, first guy to give a shit about vets.
What I don't get is Monkey theorized that Trump was on it but then reporters claimed to have talked to him the next day at the golf club.
True, but no pics or vids of him. Monkey just posted a new vid, check it out.
Thx. Yeah I don't trust fake news media anyway.
Descending just south of Cincinnati. Landing at Wright-Pat perhaps? Seems Offut to MacDill to Wright-Pat is an odd path.
Interesting, on its way to FL it flew over Red Stone Arsenal in AL.
Where was it before Fl?
Offutt, its home base.
And a combat aircraft literally right by Nightwatch https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae04ff,ae04ec,ae050a
edit. Okay looks like combat aircraft is landing in TN
They all took slightly different paths and made a hook through DC. Someone who is better than me at this might have a good idea, but it appears to be running a pattern either as a drill or for a mission. There's a Teton that's following similar
3 tankers that came out of Andrews.
AF2 (so they say) is going to Florida. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae0446
I don't think that's AF2, but still an airforce plane used for maybe cabinet members? It took a really weird pattern, though, so worth keeping an eye on! I think it's landing in Pensacola
https://www.americanspecialops.com/usaf-special-operations/aircraft/boeing-c-32b/
That plane is stationed at eglin afb
Yep, looks like its' a 486th Flight Test Squadron
Can’t find af2 anymore
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae0446
This is the link. It's descending over alabama now.
Ahh thanks, going to Elgin Air Force base
is that where the store these planes when not in use? We don't think Kamala is on that plane, do we?
Looks like the Reg# is 486th Flight Test Squadron So if it's going to Eglin, it's normal
There is a line of hercules and KC-135Rs that originated around nebraska, did a swing through DC, and are headed back in the direction of NE. Drill maybe?
Coming out of MacDill?
A globemaster is headed south out of DC. Maybe to Brazil where the Hercules is flying? https://www.radarbox.com/flight/ELVIS66
FWIW I’m about 10 miles south of mar a lago and the helicopter traffic has been HEAVY for the last 30-45 mins (as of 3AM). Sound like heavy birds. I don’t remember anything close to this level of traffic.
As of 5:30 pm PST it is landing at Wright Patterson. Anyone know why?
No clue. The Nightwatch are based in Nebraska at Offut and THE night watch usually splits it's time between Offut and TX. To go from NE to FL and then back up to Wright there must be something it's picking up or escorting? Maybe they are placing it for some future op?
How & where can you find active TFR?
I am looking on globe.adsbexchange but do not see anything at DC, around crawford Texas (GWB) etc.
Do you have to select an option on Globe.ADS or what?
Thank you!
ETA: Nevermind, found a source at https://skyvector.com/
Open to other suggestions, tho :-)
https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr2/list.jsp
Thank you!
Looks like its gonna land in Ohio or Michigan? What military bases are there??
Wright Patterson is north east from dayton ohio
That looks like it's exactly where it landed.
yep
Super Cool. Is it a special base like focus in on certain things?
I'm new to this plane thing...I have no idea what I'm even looking at lol
Alright secret info and Secret Tech. Time for the holograms to start appearing.
Ayy! Haha. We are in for a wild show! I only wished more people believed when I told them.