82_8000 (AF1): https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfdf8
00-9001 USAF Spec Ops B752: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae0443 - https://buckrail.com/plane-white-aircraft-airport/
Global Hawk MQ-4C drone: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae5c71 Local time 1321 ET
Your drone made the infinity symbol and then a Q... :)
Callsign Score 36, on a Q4 drone................
GITMO845:
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae06e5
Haven't seen a GTMO flight in a while. Much less one that uses GTMO as a call sign.
Passenger Airliners were at GITMO last night and on Monday.
Commercial or MIL?
Did you see that it dropped off the radar just after passing the Bahamas?
I did see that. I refreshed my screen twice thinking I had lost it as had walked away from my desk for a few. Went dark about 60 km E of Grand Bahama.
I thought the same thing. Glad it wasn't just me.
Not to mention that AF1 has been doing low level circle patterns, in and around joint Andrews. As well as there is a Poseidon Aircraft, along with 2 fighters in the same area, as the drone now. Edit make that two poseidon's, as well as AF1 is still in a circle pattern. Apparently another surveillance plane appears to be headed out to the area of the drone.
That pattern is super weird IMO... Am I wrong? Also, can you tell me what the orange/black lines mean? I thought maybe taxi-ing?
Edit: Just checked the pattern again. I don't think it is taxi-ing. That would not be possible. SMH.
I don't quite understand what is going on but Arlington VA
all US planes or drones???
I don't understand your question.
Another P8 Poseidon joining in on the fun?
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae222f
A third P8 Poseidon! Just turned on it’s transponder
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae2230
I don't know if its training or not, but I will say that AF1 is doing some odd stuff, going from very low level to 3000 ft then back down again. Its almost like they are doing missile threat maneuvers
Note that Eisenhower CSG is off the VA coast, so it could be some training exercise.
AF1 came from Atlantic City, west of Atlantic City/south of Pleasantville there is a place named Linwood............................................
And taking of it made a circle that avoided a place called Brigantine(Type of sail ship, old usage also means looser..), made a curve around Galloway township before heading for its current location passing Cape May Court House and crossing Delaware Bay... before settling on doing racetracks over Westphalia.
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What's interesting about it?
its rather busy.
Also you dont see Drones all the time.
Exactly. May just be routine stuff, but I've watched the mid-Atlantic closely and never seen a big drone or a ghost plane (CIA/State) before. Up at same time as empty AF1.
how do you know it is empty? are you sure there is not a President in there?
No one knows. In normal world, the callsign changes to AF1 when POTUS is aboard. 82_8000 when no POTUS.
A Poseidon P-8A (submarine hunting aircraft) has now joined the drone
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae222d
That's the control plane. They are flying the MQ4C via BAMS system.
Informative. Thanks
I just read that Bams is an acronym for the drone. Its the broad area maritime Surveillance, so that is a plane out there looking, not a control plane.
“Control plane”? MQ4C is piloted by a 4 man ground team
This is the maritime variant. Let me rephrase, integrated with P8, not controlled by. I think they have both ground and naval based control stations.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/bams-program.htm
Ok I gotcha now I missed that part. Still that doesn't mean that it controls it though, its been out there all morning without Poseidon's anywhere near it. So that tells me the Drone found something odd, and the Poseidon's is out there looking for what it found, or they are doing one heck of a training exercise lol
Fleet locations as of 25 Jan: https://news.usni.org/2021/01/25/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-jan-25-2021
Watch the water?
Damn....this little guy is moving fast and left from outside DC....
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4bca64
Any ideas?
It went from DC to Iceland?
Also not showing up as a departure from IAD.....?
Maybe its just me, but I get the feeling something interesting is going on off the coast of the Virginia Beach area. Maybe that's why AF1 is up in there air circling?