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Title: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: TEXICAN on November 07, 2010, 08:16:11 PM
This plane flew of downtown Dallas for at least an hour just circling it was still there when it got dark.
(http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TEXASLAWMAN54/IMG_8010copy.jpg)
(http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TEXASLAWMAN54/IMG_8014copy.jpg)
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: JOACH1M on November 07, 2010, 08:19:48 PM
I tired to save image on my phone to expand it and it crashed it
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: SDGhalo on November 07, 2010, 08:44:34 PM
hmm

from the wing size and the twin contrails it could be a U2 spy plane

But it also looks like a really high DC-3 fromthe look of the tail
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: JOACH1M on November 07, 2010, 08:46:53 PM
It's a u2 I blew it up and restored the pixels and it's a u2
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: Volron on November 07, 2010, 09:12:54 PM
Dang it...That's what I thought when I took a look at the top picture.  It was the bottom one that made me second guess.

Told ya not to mess with dem squirrels man...  It's like this fortune cookie thingy I got once, "If you temp a squirrel with a nut, be prepared to be bitten.". :lol
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: colmbo on November 07, 2010, 09:23:24 PM
I doubt that is a U-2.  U-2 is single engine, this has two contrails....DC-9/MD8x
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: TEXICAN on November 07, 2010, 09:37:16 PM
It was just weird how it was making tight turns of the city for so long never seen one do that before.  Then I couldnt figure out what it was.   :noid LOL
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: W7LPNRICK on November 07, 2010, 11:26:19 PM
U2 has two intakes & one exhaust thus one contrail. Not! I repeat NOT a U-2.  :salute
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: LLogann on November 07, 2010, 11:34:06 PM
Can't be a U2.........

EDIT:  as the others have already pointed out...... Plus the paint job.   :salute
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: EskimoJoe on November 08, 2010, 12:38:44 AM
I tried to Google it, but only managed to find a handful of UFO stories...

 :noid
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: JHerne on November 08, 2010, 01:27:23 AM
I doubt that is a U-2.  U-2 is single engine, this has two contrails....DC-9/MD8x

Since when do DC-9s have straight wings?

More than likely its a Cessna Citation

(http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/crop/201002/cessna-citation-xls-9_800x0w.jpg)

In your photo, it appears that the contrails are forming slightly in front of the tailplane, which is obscured from view. The engine location of the Cessna justifies the contrail position, and the obscured tailplane (because of the angle and the contrails), would suggest a tail that's obviously higher than the engines.
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: MachFly on November 08, 2010, 05:36:17 AM
It is 100% an orange test version of the Nakajima J9Y. Straight wings, two contrails, painted orange, yep definitely the J9Y  :old:



Seriously though I believe it's impossible to tell. All guesses are bases on the plane's basic shape (wings and the fuselage), two contrails, the color, and the sky around it
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: Spikes on November 08, 2010, 06:12:39 AM
Oh noes, ze Russians are spying on us!
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: Golfer on November 09, 2010, 06:34:16 PM
NASA has had a couple B-57s flying around doing high altitude research for a while.  They're based at Ellington Field.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA926/history/20101106/1430Z/KEFD/KEFD

(http://images3.jetphotos.net/img/1/1/3/9/49089_1137399931.jpg)
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: Reaper90 on November 09, 2010, 07:11:06 PM
I'm with Golfer on this one. Based on the photos and the flightpaths posted, you just got a look at a B-57.  :aok
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: SectorNine50 on November 09, 2010, 11:52:17 PM
It's funny that I found this thread tonight.  My dad just got done telling me that when he was little, he saw a huge 6 engine bomber fly over his house around the year 1955.  He told his mom and dad, and they didn't think anything of the sort existed at the time.  After a bit of research, we found out it was a B-36 Peacemaker, which is a pretty damned cool push prop bomber...

(http://www.dunkeswellmemorialmuseum.org.uk/gallery/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker.jpg)

Sorry for the hijack, just thought it was interesting.

As for the picture, I don't see engines on the wings, I'd go with a small private jet as well, particularly because of how close the trails are together.
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: Tupac on November 10, 2010, 12:13:35 AM
It's funny that I found this thread tonight.  My dad just got done telling me that when he was little, he saw a huge 6 engine bomber fly over his house around the year 1955.  He told his mom and dad, and they didn't think anything of the sort existed at the time.  After a bit of research, we found out it was a B-36 Peacemaker, which is a pretty damned cool push prop bomber...

(http://www.dunkeswellmemorialmuseum.org.uk/gallery/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker.jpg)

Sorry for the hijack, just thought it was interesting.

As for the picture, I don't see engines on the wings, I'd go with a small private jet as well, particularly because of how close the trails are together.

Look closer on the first picture, I can see the outline of 2 large engines on the right wing along with the fact the thie wings look alot longer compared to the fueselage than the citation does
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: Cthulhu on November 10, 2010, 06:18:45 PM
Yep, RB-57.

Chinese Air Force probably leased it from Google.   :D
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: 800nate on November 13, 2010, 07:39:12 AM
Yep, RB-57.

Chinese Air Force probably leased it from Google.   :D
first pictures that where posted looks like a T6 or  Extra 300
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: W7LPNRICK on November 13, 2010, 01:58:22 PM
RB-57, yup, & it ain't orange either. That's bad photo quality without filters reflecting orange sunset. I'm not talking about the grainy photo, but the filtering. IMO
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: Avanti on November 15, 2010, 01:22:38 AM
(http://www.oldtimerfan.nl/wp-content/galerij/gloster/meteor-f8/024dbdaabdb020423cccc415f716ee20_n.jpg)

Maybe?
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: JimmyC on November 15, 2010, 04:20:54 AM
Beckams?
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: Avanti on November 15, 2010, 05:01:01 AM
If you zoom right in I think you'll see the shadows of two engines in the wing, like the meteor but closer to the body

Avanti
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plane??
Post by: camnite on November 15, 2010, 06:04:21 PM
it aint any of these, its the remnants of the last car that broke down on chuck norris.





lol
cool plane btw. has major sex appeal.