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mahatmakanejeeves

(67,049 posts)
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 09:58 AM Oct 1

Somebody's going somewhere.

A C-32A just took off from JB Andrews. It is headed southwest.

Vance? Nope. It doesn't have a callsign, which would be AF2 if Vance were on board.

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mahatmakanejeeves

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2. It made a left over Franklin County VA, between Rocky Mount and Martinsville. It is now headed due south. NT
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 10:28 AM
Oct 1

mahatmakanejeeves

(67,049 posts)
5. Vance flies on it a lot; members of Congress, department secretaries. Some gummint official.
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 10:40 AM
Oct 1

C-32A is the government designation for a Boeing 757. It's a passenger plane, not a cargo plane.

This is a long way out for a training flight, so I don't think it's that. It's about to land in Greensboro NC.

And good morning.

mahatmakanejeeves

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7. No, it did not. It's been flying around in circles for the last half hour.
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 11:08 AM
Oct 1

My money is on Kristi Noem scouting out the site for a new concentration camp, "Mayberry Mauthausen."

I'm sure the plane spotters in Greensboro are having fun with this. I wonder if Piedmont Triad ATC is on Broadcastify.

unc70

(6,480 posts)
8. Maybe waiting for smaller plane from DC area
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 11:40 AM
Oct 1

Smaller plane just landed, 757 on approach.

Wrong. 757 now combing through 10000, seemingly leaving. ??!

mahatmakanejeeves

(67,049 posts)
9. There was a lot of artifact in that flightpath. This is not uncommon.
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 11:48 AM
Oct 1

The "small plane accompanying the C-32A" seemed to be a hallucination. The small plane was a doppelgänger of the C-32A. It did not have a separate existence. I've seen that before, also the weird zigzagging at low altitudes.

So it looks as if we're headed back home.

unc70

(6,480 posts)
10. couple of other interesting notes
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 12:02 PM
Oct 1

Small plane appeared to be 20-30 minutes behind 757. Could be some kind of "ghost", real or generated.

While this was going on, a P-8 was camped over Harrisburg. Could be almost anything going on. I'm always curious when certain kinds of planes are on the move.

mahatmakanejeeves

(67,049 posts)
13. It looks as if they have another one of these flights.
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 02:30 PM
Oct 1

This time it's Special Air Mission 034. This is a different plane, but still a 757.

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