This is the USAF E-8A JStars, as it passes over my house on final approach to Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford Massachusetts. Sorry for the angle, but my house is on the extended centerline, and when I heard this plane making its procedure turn inbound, I had only 15 seconds or so to grab the camera and shoot.
Might be a RC-135V Rivet Ace or Rivet Joint a/c. JSTARS of all variants have a froward lower fuselage "canoe". Hanscoms always got some funky -135's with really wierd growths in and out weekly. This ones got a SLAR setup like the newer AWACS and the RC's
[quote name='crashresq21' post='222721' date='Jun 18 2008, 20:11 ']Might be a RC-135V Rivet Ace or Rivet Joint a/c. JSTARS of all variants have a froward lower fuselage "canoe". Hanscoms always got some funky -135's with really wierd growths in and out weekly. This ones got a SLAR setup like the newer AWACS and the RC's[/quote]
Yes indeed, I agree with you on, but since this is N404PA - it is the 707. Besides the way the house shakes when this puppy is on approach at about 1200 ft (pattern altitude), that confirms it! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />
BTW, I thought there were only 2 of these in existence, are there more than that?
[quote name='brownphoto' post='222744' date='Jun 18 2008, 21:15 ']Yes indeed, I agree with you on, but since this is N404PA - it is the 707. Besides the way the house shakes when this puppy is on approach at about 1200 ft (pattern altitude), that confirms it! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />
BTW, I thought there were only 2 of these in existence, are there more than that?
joe brown[/quote]
One of those Raytheon jobs huh? The old TF33's dont help the shaking either.
This was a former Pan Am bird and bought by your USAF as a test bed and used by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Labs.
A buddies of mine is a Capt at HAFB fire and told me they try to avoid these birds when they come in, lots of nasty ELINT stuff.
Up next from my Mil Air collection is a US Marines C-130T from Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 234 --- VMGR-234 MAG-41 (MAW-4) NAS Ft Worth TX, on a six mile final to runway 29 at Hanscom Air Force Base.
This photo was taken last fall as I was covering a high school soccer game, and I know I should have gotten some blur in the props, but I was shooting the game and this came by quickly.
Do you have any more info about where this bad boy is from? And I am wondering where this was taken?
Thanks!
joe brown[/quote]
Thanks Joe, This C 17 IS out of Charleston AFB 437th Airlift Wing and the photo was taken at Tyndall AFB in Panama City,Florida March 08..................................Bill
07-12-2008, 08:47 PM (This post was last modified: 07-12-2008, 08:47 PM by anesti.)
[quote name='Bill Wall' post='225730' date='Jul 1 2008, 19:25 ']One more of the C17[/quote]
nice pic that dude is HUGE i generally shit in my pants when i see or hear a prop land cant imagine if i hear one of these babies come screaming through my area