Tag Archives: Aviation Week

Mystery planes over Amarillo

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A not-so-subtle howdy-do to President Vladimir Vladimirovich?

Texas military aircraft watchers Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett caught three wedge-shaped mystery birds high over Amarillo’s Rick Husband International Airport earlier this month. They ruled out B-2s for lack of the W-shape of their trailing edges. But if they’re black projects why fly them in daylight? Douglass opines:

“A weapons system isn’t a threat to an enemy unless they know it exists. Ask yourself an important question – what’s going on in the world right now?

“Who (…of late) has decided to roll back the clock to the good old days of the Cold War and MAD?

Question: How do you make your adversary take a moment of pause and rethink his military doctrine based on Cold War technology?

Answer: You give him a glimpse, a hint that we haven’t just been sitting on our hands all these years after the fall of the Soviet Union.”

Adds Aviation Week’s Ares Blog: “It’s not merely logical to expect that numerous classified aircraft programs exist: it’s almost a necessity under the principle of Occam’s Razor, because if they don’t, you have to contrive some sort of explanation for what Area 51 has been up to all these years.”

Via FoxNews.

Clean, but audible hell

That’s one reviewer’s take on Austin-Bergstrom International Airport for those who want to sleep there. Bring earplus, suggested another. But a third enjoyed his overnight in the VIP lounge. DFW and Houston didn’t score much better. Seems to be quieter at San Antone. I didn’t know people did this. I have been hit up by the cigarette panhandlers out in front of the baggage area at ABIA. Austin seems to attract panhandlers.

Via Things With Wings.