Saw a weird plane the other day...

[FN FAL]

It was one of the CASA twin engine planes, like you see at drop zones. But this plane was rigged with some external gear. Canadian registration.

This gear looked like a huge pair of these booms sticking out of the nose, reminiscent of those wire cutters you see on choppers, but they were larger than life, plus the tail had a huge boom sticking out of where the tail cone is. From these appendages at least four sets of cables were suspended, and they went around the plane to be suspended from points on the wings...picture the outline the wires made, as looking like a stop sign from a birds eye view.

Also part of this package was a drouge, that was bolted to some sort of hard point where the rear facing cargo ramp door was. It looked like the drogue was to be trailed out on a cable during flight.

Needless to say, there were areas of super cooled drizzle droplets that day...because I flew through and around some of them. Plus we had shower of pellets that lasted ten minutes while I was in the hanger waiting for my plane to get unloaded. That shower produced a quilt about a quarter inch thick on the ground.

Were these guys testing some kind of electronic gear, or were they out catching ice cubes?

 

[FlightTraker]

I believe the plane belongs to Fugro Airborne Surveys. www.dighem.com

I have seen some of their planes on airliners.net


Flighttraker

 

[GravityHater]

sounds like a geomagnetic survey airplane.
Either that or the government is at it again with the 'mind control sweeps' of our cities. Did you feel like 'just giving in' when it went by?

 

[TonyC]

It was one of the CASA twin engine planes, like you see at drop zones. But this plane was rigged with some external gear. Canadian registration.

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Needless to say, there were areas of super cooled drizzle droplets that day...because I flew through and around some of them. Plus we had shower of pellets that lasted ten minutes while I was in the hanger waiting for my plane to get unloaded. That shower produced a quilt about a quarter inch thick on the ground.

Were these guys testing some kind of electronic gear, or were they out catching ice cubes?

Was it this one?

It's a cover for weather modification ops, and it's based on latest technology chemtrail employment doctrine. There must have been a major mechanical problem for it to have been seen in public. Normally they'll whisk it away into a hangar or use a multiple tarp camouflage. That was a rare sighting.


By the way, if you took any pictures, expect a visit from some guys with dark-colored suits and no sense of humor to visit you in the very near future.

 

[Brett Hull]

What Gravityhater said....uh..the Geomagnetic survey part. I fueled it - or one like it when I was a lowly line guy and that's what the pilots said it was.

 

[RipCurl]

The Duke has a tale about flying geological survey in one like that... it's near the end of the stories.

 

[Dan CFI/CFII]

"It was one of the CASA twin engine planes, like you see at drop zones."

HEY! The CASA 212 is useful for FAR more than dropping people out of it. For instance it happens to make a very useful ice collector. Perhaps better than that caravan of your--I've never flown the 208 so I wouldn't know.

That said, I'd love to have jumpers hopping out of ours. But just where have you seen CASAs at drop zones? I might be needing a new job here: flying without the hassle of loading all those boxes?!?! Do I dare live that dream?

Price of gold is up, they've been REAL busy with the survey stuff this year.

Dan

 

[FN FAL]

Was it this one?

It's a cover for weather modification ops, and it's based on latest technology chemtrail employment doctrine. There must have been a major mechanical problem for it to have been seen in public. Normally they'll whisk it away into a hangar or use a multiple tarp camouflage. That was a rare sighting.


By the way, if you took any pictures, expect a visit from some guys with dark-colored suits and no sense of humor to visit you in the very near future.

actually that is the exact plane I saw...chemtrails? So that's why them guys wouldn't tell me what they were doing up in that contraption saturday!

 

[FN FAL]

"It was one of the CASA twin engine planes, like you see at drop zones."

HEY! The CASA 212 is useful for FAR more than dropping people out of it.
Dan

I hear you, but I didn't want people to start thinking I was talking of another type of CASA...like their regional airline sized plane.

I think carolina sky sports has one...check around the USPA website

 

[flyifrvfr]

I saw it too, but the guys in the suits wearing sunglasses flashed me with the flashy thing to make me forget what I saw. Lucky for me that I always see spots which degraded the flashy things effects.

 

[Dan CFI/CFII]

The mind clearing flasher thing (I'm not allowed to tellyou it's real name) is standard equipment on CASAs. It's powered by the #3 Bus

It was born for chemtrails, because nobody expects them from such a small, boxy little thing.

Dan