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Is something going up at Wallops Island. I am in Chincoteague. There were multiple tracking airplanes circling and circling for close to an hour. These planes had a big flat antenna on top. There were five or six planes that kept circling.
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They have something going up tomorrow morning. Not sure what the AWACS are for. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/home
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Jets or turboprops? How many engines? Given lack of info, my guess is Navy Hawkeyes out of Norfolk using the airspace to play AEW games.
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They are tracking aliens before the launch.
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They were twin engines. They looked like turbo props. They were not jets,. It sure is not far from Norfolk.
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Wallops Flight Facility (NASA) has a rather large runway, big enough that at one time it was an alternate (emergency) shuttle landing site. Now a days, those are Navy E2s practicing carrier landings in a program called FCLP Field Carrier Landing Practice. It's loud when you are close by and not unusual to see several in a pattern. I guess they've been doing this for 4-5 years now.
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Any chance they’re out scouting for the opening of archery season? I have no idea when it starts there.
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They were twin engines. They looked like turbo props. They were not jets,. It sure is not far from Norfolk. Props? Take us back to defcon 4
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