Re: Interesting communication intercept


Message posted by TAGBOARD on November 12, 2009 at 18:41:10 PST:

Good post. My first guess is that STRATCOM operates a few B-52s.

What I heard:

"En route with 4(hr) + 33(min), burn 46,471 (lb) (estimate 170 lb/min). Time to the alternate 12 minutes, burn 3,500. There remains 45 minutes, burn 7,158. AA required time would be 5 + 30, burn 57,080 (172 lb/min). Vector of 1+06 and burn 10,420 (158 lb/min). If you want to descend, you should have plenty of fuel to do that, over."


Now to run a few calculations:
The B-52 carries about 320,000 lb fuel (see Wikipedia). It has a nominal endurance of 17 hours, or about 20,000 lb/hr or 311 lb/min fuel burn. The 12 minutes at 3500 pounds tells me this is in the B-52 class. I'm getting 3,737 lb burned.

To me its likely a transonic jet transport of sorts (B-52 size). Now, what are they up to is anyone's guess (see image).


In Reply to: Interesting communication intercept posted by Steve Douglass on November 12, 2009 at 7:29:09 PST:

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