Yesterday I was on my deck and just happened to look up (ok, I do that a lot ) and see two airliners flying in tandem. I grabbed my camera and took some snaps as they flew over.
Barely pulled any detail, I was shooting a sigma 400mm with a 2x teleconvertor about straight up, hand-held. These are crops from the originals.
Looks like a KC-10 refuelling a 707-300 variant of some sort, which I can’t ID. It is not an E-6B, C-18A/B, E-18B, TC-18E/F (wrong engines), E8-C JSTARS lacks the larger nose.
It has an extended nose and belly pod, blue or black stripe high on tail. I can’t find photos of an E8-A.
Yup, you got it!
Nice catch, while KC-10s darken the skies over my neck of the woods, all of the A/A refueling takes place over the ocean. You must live under a restricted area or MOA.
FYI, the dark circles in the sky areas are dust on your lens/teleconverter/sensor. You should clean them.
(Been doing a lot of lens swapping lately, thanks)
I’m living in Bothell, WA, pretty much everything flies over here, AFAIK its not restricted, because KPAE, KSEA, KRNT and KBFI stuff flies over all day. Just got lucky I guess.
I just took a look at the charts for your area and you’re right, there is not restricted area overhead that location. Interesting, I wouldn’t have thought they would do refueling operations right over a class B area.
