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Red/orange fighter jet just flew into Dulles
Posted by: Billy in Chantilly ()
Date: May 15, 2017 02:07PM

Just flew right over my office. From the bottom it looked like an F-18 (twin angled vertical stabilizers, possibly twin engine) but I'm not certain. Anybody know what that was?

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Re: Red/orange fighter jet just flew into Dulles
Posted by: Morton In Lorton ()
Date: May 15, 2017 02:16PM

It was an F-18.

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Re: Red/orange fighter jet just flew into Dulles
Posted by: Frank at Pohanka ()
Date: May 15, 2017 02:26PM

I heard that President Trump wanted Arthur Treacher's for lunch and the only way was to fly it from the Ohio location.

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Re: Red/orange fighter jet just flew into Dulles
Posted by: Billy in Chantilly ()
Date: May 15, 2017 02:28PM

Morton In Lorton Wrote:
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> It was an F-18.


Why the unusual paint scheme?

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Re: Red/orange fighter jet just flew into Dulles
Posted by: Humphrey in Dumfries ()
Date: May 15, 2017 02:29PM

I have flightradar24 open, don't see anything on there at the moment. I'm not sure military planes are on there anyways.

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Re: Red/orange fighter jet just flew into Dulles
Posted by: Rick in Pohick ()
Date: May 15, 2017 02:32PM

You are correct - military planes do not show up on flightradar. Would be cool if they did.

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Re: Red/orange fighter jet just flew into Dulles
Posted by: Ivan ()
Date: May 15, 2017 03:14PM

It was a MiG. Those pesky Russians are getting bold with their testing of our response times.

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Re: Red/orange fighter jet just flew into Dulles
Posted by: Morton In Lorton ()
Date: May 15, 2017 03:37PM

Billy in Chantilly Wrote:
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> Morton In Lorton Wrote:
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> > It was an F-18.
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> Why the unusual paint scheme?

It's an accident reconstruction team plane. The high contrast paint helps to increase visibility when recorded as the teams puts the plane through the same maneuvers that caused a previous plane to crash.

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