[NLRS] Slightly off topic, strange airplane

[Donn Baker]

Jon,
You REALLY need to lay off the "Christmas Cheer !"  At least until the
sun's over the yard-arm.

73 Donn
WA2VOI/0


At 11:42 04-12-04 EST, W0ZQ at aol.com wrote:
>When I went outside today to get my mail, I saw a strange airplane that  
>perhaps someone out there in NLRS can explain to me
> 
>The plane was a two engine (prop) of fair size, say about 1/2 the size  of a 
>C130.   It did not appear to be military.   It was  flying west to east at
say 
>2,000' or so, somewhat low.     What caught my attention was the large 
>horizontal loop "antenna" (I'm assuming  its an antenna).   There was a
strut out 
>the back of the tail and a  second strut out the front of the nose and a
cable 
>(wire?) strung all the way  around outside of the plane; from the tip of the 
>nose strut to the tip of the  left wing, to the tip of the tail strut, to
the 
>tip of the right wing, back to  the tip of the nose strut.   It looked like 
>someone had taken a pencil  and drawn a box all around the very outside of
the 
>airplane.    A  flying horizontal loop.    Like I said, it look strange
and I've  
>never seen anything like it before.
> 
>My guess is its some kind of downward looking magnetic detection  device ... 
>perhaps for pipelines or ???.    Like I said, I don't  think it was military.
> 
>Of course my thoughts were about how it would load on say, 6m, or perhaps  
>160m.
> 
>73, Jon
>W0ZQ
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