Wings & Space Photography

There are a few C-135 variants outside of the KC-135 Stratotanker kicking about.

RC-135V/W Rivet Joint, SIGNT
RC-135S Cobra Ball, ballistic missile tracking
RC-135U Combat Sent, ELINT
WC-135C/R/W Constant Phoenix, nuke sniffer
TC-135W for Rivet Joint training, I think still named Stratolifter

This pattern I have not seen before. A 1st for me

#BADGR33 #AE01D9 62-4133 TC-135S/W Stratolifter

I'm thinking some sort of instrumentation calibration flight 🤷

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Depending where the 'action' is you could possibly listen to Live ATC also

www.liveatc.net

Caught a snap of the Moon this morning at 06:30hrs.

I didn't know about it in advance but see it was in conjunction with Regulus.
Regulus (Alpha Leonis) is the brightest star in the constellation Leo. Known as the "little king" and "heart of the lion," it is approximately 79 light-years away

You could try engaging some live airport webcams when they land

I’m not disappointed. Okay, I’m disappointed 🫣
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@blueskiesaviation.bsky.social 👀

Awe mate, we had four in! 2 left yesterday and 2 today. I posted a video of the 1st one arriving in pouring rain with the special livery and the 2nd coming in the dark. I missed the 3rd/4th as they arrived way too late

Too cool LOL

Dangling moon…
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@paintingsurfer.bsky.social suspicious minds?

FYI 🤷 I’m guessing here… 👇

Pair of KC-46A left Fairchild as #RCH075 #AE63BC 20-46080 & #RCH076 #AE5FA1 18-46054 and deviating around ⚡St Louis⚡

Then another pair left McConnell as #RCH077 #AE5FA5 11-46058 & #RCH078 #AE574F 15-46009 also routing over St Louis then went dark heading south....

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🤔😆🤭 please keep us posted on this LOL

Diverted to Stansted instead of Prestwick due to the strong winds from #stormbram

The folks at Prestwick always welcome the returning astronauts and often post their photos together on social media.

🤣 we don’t check false promises like this enough do we

🐝🐝🐝 Drone swarm strike tests by Auterion, an American company specializing in autonomous systems.

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Hmmm I think a lot of the general squawk codes are for local areas but 7500 is hijacking, 7600 radio failure & 7700 general emergency like decompression, medical emergency, rowdy passengers etc.
When I worked 'X' I followed a lot of people that would have listened in to comms but not here 🤔

#NASA5 headed out from Ellington (Houston) on 4th stopping at Prestwick on the way to Kazakhstan.

Returning now from Kazakhstan after collecting NASA astronaut Jonny Kim from the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan today.

I’m waiting 😉

Russian Sukhoi incident FYI

A color photograph of a shiny B-58 Hustler bomber outside on a concrete pad on a sunny day. The very large combination fuel/bomb pod is attached to the bottom of the aircraft.

A color photograph of a B-58 Hustler bomber in flight, the sun glinting off its right side, in which the bottom of the aircraft tilted toward the camera showing the attached fuel/bomb pod and B43 thermonuclear bombs.

Today in 1964 at Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana, as aircraft taxied in icy weather during an Operational Readiness Alert inspection exercise, a B-58 carrying a 9-Megaton B53 bomb in a pod and four 70-kiloton to 1-Megaton B43 bombs skidded off the taxiway, suffered landing gear failure, and caught fire.

Very welcome happy to help 🤝🙌

I find you have to switch between apps to get a better view of what is going on sometimes 😉👍

Flight Radar 24 would be my other fave.
On ADS-B you can filter the military by selecting the ‘U’ at the top.
FR24 allows you to filter military also

I was watching them too Rick. Do you think they have chalked up another fishing boat gong?

There were a lot of cancellations at Belfast City (regional) airport today due to #stormbram but I could only see one diversion.
BA flight from London ended up going back to London, a 3hr round trip 🫣😳 poor pax

Holy shit, 2 F/A-18F’s inside Venezuelan airspace!