Pay no attention...Nothing to see here...

[scoober78]

http://theaviationist.com/2012/04/13/ep-3e-derna/

First off silly man, EP-3's don't fly at "high altitude".

 

[ea6bflyr]

While I am not a photo analyst, it certainly looks like an IL-38 not an EP-3:

 

[Brett327]

How can you tell the difference based on the linked pics?

 

[jollygreen07]

http://theaviationist.com/2011/09/26/e-6b/

Got another off this guys site. Pretty entertaining stuff.

 

[scoober78]

Even if I was sure that an E-6 had taken part to the raid at Abbottabad as an ABNCP platform (to such an extent that I had put one these planes in the “crime scene” of my Operation Neptune’s Spear explained article) I had never realized that the one over UK could be linked to the Osama Bin Laden raid.

"And you sir, are a chucklehead!"

Love this. It's like an aviation tabloid.

In other news, 6 Cessna 172's were airborne in Spain at the exact moment of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Coincidence?

 

[jollygreen07]

It is pretty hilarious.

 

[707guy]

In other news, 6 Cessna 172's were airborne in Spain at the exact moment of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Coincidence?

They were distracting folks away from the movie set they used to film the landings...

 

[Jim123]

Oh man... looking at the flight path tracks on that website I was just struck by a terrible realization...

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Now everyone on the internet can see when you are trying to hold and you mess up your entry orbit!

I'm just not sure I can handle the anguish of wondering whether bloggers will criticize me for picking teardrop instead of parallel.

 

[Renegade One]

6 Cessna 172's were airborne in Spain at the exact moment of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Coincidence?

I think not...no one will ever know...or appreciate...the incalculable contribution of the Spanish Cessnas towards the effort of faking the moon landings.

Unfortunately...black helicopters now have your IP address. Way to go...

 

[SynixMan]

I need my tinfoil hat!

 

[ea6bflyr]

How can you tell the difference based on the linked pics?

In the pic posted, the body of the aircraft in question looks long like an IL-38, not short and stubby like a P-3

 

[Flugelman]

<<< Wanna borrow mine???

I need my tinfoil hat!

 

[Uncle Fester]

I love it when airshow nerds try to do deep thinking about things military.

 

[MonkUSMC]

I love it when airshow nerds try to do deep thinking about things military.

Because we're some mysterious operating force full of coverups and dark secrets, and everything we do must have a top secret mission related reason to it.

 

[insanebikerboy]

Because we're some mysterious operating force full of coverups and dark secrets, and everything we do must have a top secret mission related reason to it.

You wanna talk top secret, lemme tell you about this growler I delivered at work yesterday....