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Saw something yesterday that I cant say I've seen before (Read 446 times)

Dec 20^th, 2010 at 12:25pm

gtirob01 Offline
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Atleast seen before flying in person.

Heard a loud rumble in the distance coming from the local airport (KCEW) and them saw a somewhat large twin engine prop, cargo type aircraft. It was all gray and I didnt see any markings, but did notice an IR/camera pod under the nose. So it is likely a USAF aircraft.

After some searching I found that recently an old Convair CV-340 (C-131) had flown out of the same airport. But FlightAware had nothing about the one I saw yesterday.

I found this picture which is basically what it looked like... only it had the pod under the nose
http://flightaware.com/photos/view/170880-b0bac05faec471ad1a708ed96a1d175c113e1d...

Just thought it was cool to see something different!

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Reply #1 - Dec 20^th, 2010 at 5:33pm

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Been a long time since I've seen one of those.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #2 - Dec 21^st, 2010 at 7:30pm

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Well on the right hand side of the USAF link there is a list with a pic of the planes maybe it is in there??
http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/index.asp

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Reply #3 - Jan 9^th, 2011 at 8:02am

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Avionics testbed for Honeywell / Raytheon?

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