That's odd. I was in the Air Force. That is a C5 Galaxy (the largest cargo acft we have). They are not re-fuelers, but they can accept fuel from a KC-135 or KC-10. The re-fueling boom comes down from the rear of the KC's and goes into the "front" of the C5 just above the flight deck windows.
I didn’t take pictures of the others, I was driving when I saw them. Plus taking pictures with a phone in motion is awful at best. The one with the refueling boom looked smaller.
I live in Dover, (Hello Neighbor)… There has been an increased plane activity the last few days. My buddy works there, I’ll have to ask if he was seeing the same thing.
Hi neighbor. I’m in Farmington… aka the poorer Rochester, hahaha.
It looked like a lot of training flights at the same time, seemed like it was a shorter duration of flights, but I have no way of knowing (trees, line of sight, clouds) if I’m seeing new planes or the same planes going in big circles. I definitely saw 5 different planes. It could have been as many as 9, assuming I didn’t see any repeats. My personal guess/gut feeling is there were 7 that all took off / were landing (most landing).
That's odd. I was in the Air Force. That is a C5 Galaxy (the largest cargo acft we have). They are not re-fuelers, but they can accept fuel from a KC-135 or KC-10. The re-fueling boom comes down from the rear of the KC's and goes into the "front" of the C5 just above the flight deck windows.
Beat me to it. They probably came from Westover ARB.
I didn’t take pictures of the others, I was driving when I saw them. Plus taking pictures with a phone in motion is awful at best. The one with the refueling boom looked smaller.
I live in Dover, (Hello Neighbor)… There has been an increased plane activity the last few days. My buddy works there, I’ll have to ask if he was seeing the same thing.
Hi neighbor. I’m in Farmington… aka the poorer Rochester, hahaha.
It looked like a lot of training flights at the same time, seemed like it was a shorter duration of flights, but I have no way of knowing (trees, line of sight, clouds) if I’m seeing new planes or the same planes going in big circles. I definitely saw 5 different planes. It could have been as many as 9, assuming I didn’t see any repeats. My personal guess/gut feeling is there were 7 that all took off / were landing (most landing).
I just seen one flying by Randolph AFB yesterday probably heading toward Lackland AFB first one I have seen flying in this area
5-9 in the air at the same time.
That's a heavy lift right there. Troops?
Someone else said cargo carrier.
Both.