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This is quite a standard route for a large military craft to take from base to base. The larger and heavier craft will almost always take an out-of-the-way approach to landing at a base in order to keep its path free of resistance. The flight path will often be as straight and narrow as can be.
It's also entirely possible that the navigator simply didn't want them taking that path.
You're absolutely right, it technically could, but military aircraft do not take off, from anywhere, without transmitting their flight paths to the destination base. When it comes to our military air craft, especially big fat ones like this, a flight path like this is often taken. Straight, narrow, predictable.
Additionally, the circling can be explained as well: the plane could have overshot its landing, so it had to go into a circle pattern until ATC approved of a second approach. However, the more likely reason is that the pilot, co-pilot and/or navigator just needed the additional hours to remain current on their training and they had the fuel to burn. If the latter is the case, then President Trump was absolutely not on that flight. If the former, then perhaps, but more likely he's actually in Texas.
I hate to say "that's not the same thing", but that's not the same thing. If the flight path from the command center in Texas to Offutt AFB were different in the past, that would lend some credence to something "else" going on, but even then it wouldn't be of any significance.
The flight path from different locations will be, well, different. The air strip can be approached from the east, of course, but that doesn't mean the plane cannot take a slightly different flight path. Additionally, the same plane could make the same trip twice using two completely different flight paths.
I believe we are focusing on the wrong thing here. The path of the plane is irrelevant, but the significance of the flight itself should remain in our minds.
I understand that, but we're not talking about a commercial airliner here. This flight path is truly nothing out of the ordinary. Notice how straight and narrow each line is? That's done on purpose. If the plane were to come straight up from Texas and fly over Kansas they'd have a more difficult time with air traffic as well as steering the plane itself to the proper path.
This is nothing more than a pre-determined flight path. However, the flight path is not what is important here, but rather the flight itself. We should focus on the significance of this plane flying to the command center in Texas, then departing for a home trip.
Yes, it's more standard than you'd think. When we're flying, we are traveling over one hundred miles per hour, so it's best to keep a straight course with minimal alterations as the safest bet. I'd be more suspicious if the aircraft DIDN'T take this route.
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This is actually quite typical for flying into Offutt. All planes landing at Offutt will take a similar route in order to properly land. Source: 6 year AF vet who flew on the RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft. We always took a similar path to land. Come in from the west, take off in the east.
Sorry for the triple post of the same shit, just want to disseminate some info. This, however, does not mean some shit isn't going down; just that we can't get antsy about every little thing that seems off to us.
This is actually quite typical for flying into Offutt. All planes landing at Offutt will take a similar route in order to properly land. Source: 6 year AF vet who flew on the RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft. We always took a similar path to land. Come in from the west, take off in the east.
This is actually quite typical for flying into Offutt. All planes landing at Offutt will take a similar route in order to properly land. Source: 6 year AF vet who flew on the RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft. We always took a similar path to land. Come in from the west, take off in the east.
These fucking glowies can supposedly identify a bomber via DNA within 24 hours by gathering DUST from an explosion site. They can find whatever fucker supposedly planted a bomb. I don't trust any of these alphabet agencies.
I am holding hopes that something is going on, but we have multiple large air bases in Texas and we don't know what the standard air traffic looks like for the area just yet. If a comparison is made, then we can make a decent theory.
For real, but, to be fair, any realistic depiction of that monster would always turn out poorly.