[NLRS] Slightly off topic, strange airplane

[John (JK) Kalenowsky, K9JK]

Let's see...who among the NLRS is a pilot and multi-engine rated?

Maybe Jon saw the latest incantation of a Dubya Nine Frank Zappa Rover 
vehicle??? ;-)

73, JK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donn Baker" <wa2voi at mail.mninter.net>
To: <W0ZQ at aol.com>; <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 16:11
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Slightly off topic, strange airplane


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