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Jetliner Escort
updated: Jan 13, 2013, 8:57 AM

By Edhat Subscriber

A subscriber wants to know if anyone can tell him about jetliner accompanied by four much smaller escort planes. The planes were sighted from the Mission rose garden around 2pm Saturday.

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COMMENT 363025	2013-01-13 10:20 AM
Oprah? Ty Warner? Lois Capps?
COMMENT 363030	2013-01-13 10:42 AM
representative lois capps flies economy on commercial airlines. most representatives do the same.
COMMENT 363034	2013-01-13 10:48 AM
025... just flying one plane is expensive enough but 5? Only the Pentagon can afford to put that many planes in the air as a package non commercially.
COMMENT 363038	2013-01-13 10:53 AM
Wasen't there a plane landing with brake lights on yesterday?
COMMENT 363045P	2013-01-13 11:43 AM
Yes, 038, but that was around noon.
SBITIZEN	2013-01-13 12:21 PM
Just a guess but perhaps it was a training mission
COMMENT 363107P	2013-01-13 05:30 PM
A honest question deserves an answer. It was most likely a training flight of fighter jets taking turns refueling from a larger jet.
COMMENT 363130P	2013-01-13 07:45 PM
how high were they? refueling runs are not usually practicied over populated areas, but near airbases or test flight areas. Jetliner? could you see rows of windows? Seems unlikely any kind of practice run over the coastal area. Destination V-burg?
MADMAX	2013-01-13 07:49 PM
Refueling operation.
COMMENT 363143P	2013-01-13 08:38 PM
It's a Vandy thing. 747 has some crazy techno rocket frame within the bay doors - no engine/booster - they're testing the frame in altitude and speed. The fighter pilots watch and verify the action... don't say anything, it's a secret..
COMMENT 363172P	2013-01-14 04:44 AM
Thanks to all who replied in earnest. A friend asked me to ask Edhatters. I hope he is satisfied with the answers.
COMMENT 363188	2013-01-14 07:26 AM
I saw it as well. Definitely a tanker and fighters refueling.
COMMENT 363203	2013-01-14 08:01 AM
I saw it as well, heard a loud jet and looked up ... it was so far up in the sky I barely saw it & failed to get a picture. Pretty cool.

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