[Scan-DC] Aircraft

[Doug Kitchener]

Wasn't there also a NASA plane that was flying low and slow around here a month or so ago on some sort of surveying mission?  I saw it over in the Calverton area (I-95/495 junction in MD) a few Sundays ago.  There were some messages here about it, will try and find them.

Having said that, I don't think the one I'm referring to is the one that this string references!

DK

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> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:33:28 -0400
> From: sean.r.hoyden at lmco.com
> To: aclegg at nsf.gov; lee_robert at cox.net; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Aircraft
>
> There was an MC-130 flyover at ANC yesterday around Quake-time for one of the Air Force guys killed in the helicopter crash over in Afghanistan a couple weeks ago. "Gray, prop-job" kinda fits the bill there.
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> P.S. This e-mail may get bounced from the list, since this is my work e-mail, feel free to repost if it bounces.
>
> Sean
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Clegg, Andrew W.
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 8:32 AM
> To: lee_robert at cox.net; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Scan-DC] Aircraft
>
> That was about the right time that I heard the aircraft. The best way to
> describe what I heard is a large-ish prop plane or a very
> "smooth"-sounding helicopter.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of lee_robert at cox.net
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 6:18 AM
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Aircraft
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> I'm a bit of a lurker on this list, but will contribute what little I
> can to the low flying aircraft item. Having been evacuated from my
> building in Crystal City, I was standing on Crystal Drive at about 2:30
> when a gray prop plane (can't identify, not my area of specialty - like
> an awac but didn't see any big discs on it) flew east to west (south to
> north) seeming to follow the Potomac. At first I wondered if it had
> taken off from DCA, but soon after saw a Delta Jet take off and realized
> the flight pattern was different. Was it following the river or had it
> just come from Andrews?