[MilCom] Big honkin' jet flew over

[Fred]

The Russian cargo plane, largest plane in the world, was at BDL last week. 
Flew over my work site. This is a BIIIIIIIIIG plane.
Fred
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Mantick" <wb9omc at yahoo.com>
To: <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 7:38 PM
Subject: [MilCom] Big honkin' jet flew over



Wonder if anybody caught any comms - about 6:15 PM eastern AKA 22:15 UTC 
over
Lafayette, IN, SE to NW............BIIIIIG contrail, BIIIIIG plane. My 
fairly new camera was
able to zoom in partway, and I can zoom some more on the camera's back 
display.

Clearly 4 engines, bottom of aircraft light possibly white. Tail - horiz 
stabilizers low-mounted (not t-tail), single vertical stabilizer. Wings 
appear quite long and swept well
back guessing 35 to 45 degrees........wings appear darker as if light gray 
or gray-blue.
Engines are BIG, diameter close to or slightly exceeding 1/2 the width of 
fuselage. Hard
to tell if wings are low or high mounted. Nose catches the eye - best shot 
is from side
*opposite* the sun, and it looks as if there is a kinda dark stubby radome 
up front with a
dark stripe extending back about half-way to the leading edge of the wing.

Any gueses?

(probably unrelated but just to mention - an hour or so earlier an F18 was 
making some
passes down low at the Purdue Univ. airport - last seen gear down headed for 
the deck)

Duane
WB9OMC

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