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chek't and confirmed
168429 US Navy P-8 Poseiden at low altitude off eastern Florida
MRODR02 USAF RC-135S Cobra Ball out of Offut AFB, NE over Central North Dakota just west of Grand Forks-and in the same general area where the CBP drones work-the Cobra Ball Is doing north/south runs over the Spirit Lake Reservation and on a southern leg now.
The RC-135S Cobra Ball is a rapidly deployable aircraft, which flies Joint Chiefs of Staff-directed missions of national priority to collect optical and electronic data on ballistic targets. This data is critical to arms treaty compliance verification, and development of U.S. strategic defense and theater missile defense concepts.
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104498/rc-135s-cobra-ball/
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SHIRR38 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departing JBA west
Boeing 737 MAX takes off on first certification test flight
SEATTLE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Boeing Co 737 MAX took off on Monday just before 1 p.m. EDT from a Seattle-area airport on the first day of certification flight testing with U.S. Federal Aviation Administration test pilots, a crucial moment in its worst-ever crisis.
Boeing Flight 701 departed King County International Airport, which is also known as Boeing Field, a Reuters witness confirmed. The plane is scheduled to land two hours later at Moses Lake airport, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.
The plane is then scheduled to depart Moses Lake soon afterward, arriving back in Seattle at 1:22 p.m. PDT. Reuters first reported the long-awaited certification test flights were set to start on Monday and expected to last three days. The FAA said the flights will evaluate Boeing's proposed changes to the plane's automated flight control system. The FAA said it has not made a decision on return to service and still and has a number of additional steps before the plane will be allowed to return to commercial service. Boeing's best-selling 737 MAX has been grounded since March 2019 after two fatal crashes killed 346 people. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the airplane's certification.
After the flights are completed, the FAA must still approve new pilot training procedures, among other reviews, and would not likely approve the plane's ungrounding until September, sources said. If that happens, the jet is on a path to resume U.S. service before year-end, though the process has been plagued by delays for more than a year. Boeing in recent months had to address additional software issues and agreed to move wiring bundles that the FAA said posed a potentially dangerous issue.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/boeing-737-max-first-certification-test-flight
I got on one knowing they were comped in Nov '18
was an interdasting ride.
Did not tell spouse
Looked right at the hatch in the front where the chip was.