![]() Given that assumption, the answer to your questions are: Though it's entirely possible that that is easier than it sounds. Most of the speculation here hinges on it being an advanced aircraft that successfully evaded the USAF. That said, the white paint job sounds uncharacteristic of military/government (especially skunkworks) operations, and the expanding attention of the incident, points to unexpected events.Īnother hypothesis is high level leadership asking questions about actual preparedness for something that fits the profile of a sudden terrorist hijacking incident, based on peered civil aviation inputs alone, along with an undisclosed fire drill. Large, in aviation, often means “not a 2 passeneger Cessna,” to evoke not scale relative to other humans, but scale of catastrophe if it fell into a neighborhood or if a pilot had to think about colliding with such a thing, which would “win.” Perhaps not freakishly large like a KC-10 Extender, C-5 Galaxy or a C-17 Globemaster III. ![]() ![]() The “large” description is also vague, but suggesting as big as a passenger jet is my estimate. So, in the 600MPH to 700MPH region, it would be going faster than most air traffic, but wouldn’t cut the noisy wake of a sonic boom overflight, which means, in my mind it wasn’t going “very fast” or fast enough to put it in the same league as what qualifies for fast for any fighter or other fast military plane. The ATC commentary suggests a fast relative speed, in reference to other traffic only. It sounds like it’s likely to be subsonic, since whatever it is, it’s maintaining a low profile in every way beyond simply being a highly visible white paint job, and appearing on radar at all.
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