Saw this at 100000 feet over Syria. Any guesses?

[Jimmy2]

[Cessna driver]

Aliens

[JMACK]

748 kts maybe a U2 maybe a drone?

[AuxBatOn]

U-2 at 748 kts? Unlikely. I don't know any "drone" (you probably meant RPA) flying at 748 kts either...

[YYZSaabGuy]

748 kts maybe a U2 maybe a drone?

U2 was my guess as well, with the SR-71s out of service, but Wiki has its service ceiling as 70,000'+....a big jump to 100,400. I'm guessing maybe a transponder error or a problem with the website.

[Siddley Hawker]

tlhIngan maH. bIjeghbe'chugh vaj bIHegh.

[JMACK]

U-2 at 748 kts? Unlikely. I don't know any "drone" (you probably meant RPA) flying at 748 kts either...

You would know you are the fighter guy what kind of winds would you find at 100000 ft and what's an RPA and other than the blackbird what goes that high that isn't classified?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Any snow in Bagotville yet?

Cheers.....Jim

[AuxBatOn]

Syria has MiG-25s.

Not in YBG anymore... Down at NAS Pax River for a year or two.

[Jimmy2]

I thought Mig-25 too but apparently they top out at 90000. This aircraft also landed in Turkey I'm told. Could it be a Turkish F-4 reconnaissance that spoofed the transponder to read 100k? Also, why would anything actually at 100k have a transponder on anyways?

[Rookie50]

Must be quite the view.....

[JMACK]

Syria has MiG-25s.

Not in YBG anymore... Down at NAS Pax River for a year or two.

Aux are you at test pilot school??? If yes congrats, if no congrats on the exchange posting!

Maryland is awesome I did skeds to Washington and Baltimore, love the area.

Have you had the chance to go to the Air/Space Museum in DC?

Enjoy!

[PilotDAR]

I'm guessing maybe a transponder error

I once was flying a 182, which I suspected might have an encoder error. With the "Alt" selected off, I called up Toronto terminal and asked if I could turn it on to test. Yes. I reported I was climbing, but had not reported my altitude passing yet. Terminal told me is was working, but out of calibration. How'd he know that I asked, I had not stated my passing altitude...

"I show you climbing through 28,000 feet". "Thanks", back to mode A, and off to the avionics shop....

If there were an aircraft at 104,000 feet over Syria doing 748 kts, would it be squawking 1455 and altitude?

[iflyforpie]

tlhIngan maH. bIjeghbe'chugh vaj bIHegh.

So'wl' QIH

[burhead1]

DaH vay' vIlarghlaH.

[iflyforpie]

Qapla'!

[Nark]

How many tactical aircraft saw auk mode C?

Not the smart ones....

[7ECA]

Unless your a Canadian tanker that is...

Oh wait, it was a "mistake".

[iflyforpie]

Unless your a Canadian tanker that is...

Oh wait, it was a "mistake".

Wow.

The CC-150 (A310) Polaris (serialled 15005) of the Canadian Armed Forces deployed to Trapani, once again (read Day 4 report for more details), during the night mission on Day 9 broadcasted full ADS-B information for everyone to see on flightradar24. This means that the trasponder was not tuned to prevent everybody from watching all the flight path of the Canadian tanker as I had guessed in Day 5 debrief (Pt.4) (hence, the A310 not broadcasting full ADS-B was another one).

http://theaviationist.com/2011/03/28/op ... ned-day-9/

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[Meatservo]

Hey! What are those blue square blocks!? Why has that comment been bleeped out? Did someone guess what that shit was and get censored by some government online spy thing? WTF? This is AWESOME. Obviously that thing at 100,000' was super important and top secret!! Are they on their way to that guy's house to eliminate him now? Who posted that? Who scrambled those other two posts? WHAT IS GOING ON???

[ThatArmyGuy]

Aliens

Agreed.

[2R]

More than likely it is the SR-72 /Aurora if you want a picture of what it looks like you can visit the CIA headquarters .They have a scale model of one hanging from the ceiling in the lobby next to the SR-71.
Likely left the transponder on so they nobody fire missile's at it ,the fallout from the ION propulsion system would pollute the middle east for the next twenty five years as well as spreading around the globe destroying and mutating crops.
It is also SOP's to switch on the transponder when the Chemtrail tanks are empty

[Flybabe]

Aurora slow pass?

Not the P-3, either.

Whoops, just saw above post ^. Not buying the chemtrail part though

[oldncold]

possible 104 starfighter turkish airforce we know that 104 can reach that and was often used for photo recon , the other option mig31 or suk 29 both have published alt in excess of 100k the transponder code could be to prevent russian and usa warplanes from seeing each other as 'enemy combatants'

[oldncold]

forgot a few other planes f22 raptor and b1b very capable of those speeds and altitudes b1b does have extensive sensor suite for photo infra red and 3d thermal imaging