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Hello all,
today the weather was great so I spent some time spotting with my 55-250 lens.
I have seen 4 contrails from an aircraft flying eastbound over Rome and tried to take some pics of what looks like a KC-135 (check the black nose)
At the beginning I thought it could be an A340, but I checked on Flightradar24 if it was trackable and it wasn't.
Any idea?
BTW, here are today's best shots of the only two aircrafts I managed to spot while landing at Rome-CIA (cropped)
Last edited by james84 on 02 Apr 2011, 18:17, edited 1 time in total.
It almost looks like a 747, but its hard to tell through the grain. If you could sharpen up the grain, and adjust the contrast it might be easier to tell.
After playing with the pictures in photoshop I think you may be right, it does look a bit like a KC-135, after sharpening the middle photo, the tail boom appears slightly visible.
bassiejj1994 wrote:On what time did you see it? SBS-1 shows more than one KC-135 around rome today.
Late afternoon, around 6-7pm... don't remember the exact time though, I didn't copy the photos on the HD, they are still on the memory card!
Anyway, I posted the same message and photo on an Italian site and somebody involved in the military said it might also be an RC-135, and he said there was actually one buzzing over Rome last Sunday!
