OT: Plane spotting... saw "NECAP".. the "Dooomsday Plane".

[cbelt3]

With the Boy Scouts at Wright Patterson AFB last weekend, there was a strange looking 747 on the base. It took off Saturday evening.

Turns out it was an E-4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-4

Very cool. We were perhaps within 100 yards as we drove down the flight line.

[NewtonMP2100]

....this is SPOT on.....SPOT on.....

[TLB]

cbelt, you were in my neck of the woods--hope you enjoyed SW Ohio. I was stationed at Offutt back in the day. You should have seen one of those behemoths do an EWO launch during the cold war days. At maximum climb rate, it looks like it was hanging by a string in the sky and operating barely outside its stall window.