Airplane Pics

[flogger]

The camera in my phone is garbage so its hard to see but I'm pretty sure I saw a C5 on Saturday over east Colorado Springs. Might not be very interesting to some but it was new to me to see in the sky. Wish Id taken the picture when it was banking instead of staring at it trying to figure out what it was though.

It might be a C-17 with the winglet wing tips. Real workhorse during the Kabul fiasco.

I was tracking the 'FR 24' app and watching the air traffic for several days. Lots of USAF and reserve aircraft. That was the only time I have seen them recognize and describe a US military aircraft.
You could track the re-fuelers and recon aircraft circling areas around the base and a few MiL-24 copters wondering around.

Very cool tracking hardware out there.

[ChickNorris]

It might be a C-17 with the winglet wing tips. Real workhorse during the Kabul fiasco.

I was tracking the 'FR 24' app and watching the air traffic for several days. Lots of USAF and reserve aircraft. That was the only time I have seen them recognize and describe a US military aircraft.
You could track the re-fuelers and recon aircraft circling areas around the base and a few MiL-24 copters wondering around.

Very cool tracking hardware out there.

Yup, winglets.
That was a really nice way of saying I was mistaken. Thank you : )

Ive been spending more time around bases so I get excited by everything & am still learning to identify. Wearing my glasses & having a decent camera would've helped. That sucker seemed huge.

C17 makes more sense around here. There was something flying around in the logs with a call sign associated with the airlift command with the call sign 'Reach' so there's some info available if I dig around.

Have a business account with fr24. Good stuff. Giggle

[Bailey Guns]

It might be a C-17 with the winglet wing tips.

That's what I was thinking. I don't recall the Galaxy ever having 'winglets' and it looks like that plane does. Cool and fun regardless.

C-17s, KC-135s and KC-46s fly over my house damn near every day. I still enjoy seeing them.

ETA: That's what I get for responding without reading the rest of the posts. I see the mystery was solved without my valuable input...