PLANEFAGS...AF1 just went airborn. Also, weird stuff habbenings off the coast.
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P8's, drones, slow orbiting turboprops, T38's all hanging out around the mouth of the Chesapeake. Anyone have a clue what's going on?
P8's train and do some ASW work off the coast on a regular basis. They work with Carrier groups also and I think there are a couple off the coast. Would depend on the slow orbiting turboprops A/C type, but P3's do the same work as P8's. T-38's are a head scratcher but Navy Pax River is a test facility and as I recall used T-38's in the past even though they are an Air Force training aircraft normally found around Air Force training bases in the south. Any number of missions could be going on and normally are, regardless of our current issues.
That's correct. Pax is home to that MQ-4C and the P8, both test aircraft. They aren't doing operational missions. Test flights of some sort. T-38's are often used as chase aircraft to follow the aircraft flying test flights and capture imagery or observe behavior externally I assume. Also use F/A-18s and some smaller Cessna type jets.