Will it take off? HAHA

But no really. Walking home from dinner I looked up and saw two planes RIGHT NEXT TO EACHOTHER. Here let me draw a picture.



One was gray with no wing engines and the one right behind was white with engines on the wings and they flew like that across the horizon. Some guy said they were refueling but WHY would a commercial flight need refueling in mid air??? They always fuel up each time they land!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4/14/2010 9:00:48 PM

that picture rocks

4/14/2010 9:02:03 PM

I think it accurately describes the situation!

4/14/2010 9:03:27 PM

I don't know if they took off or not, but from your picture and description they sound HOMOSEXUAL.

4/14/2010 9:03:43 PM

Don't be scared honey, Daddy is just refueling Mommy.

4/14/2010 9:06:01 PM

Looks like airplane mating season has arrived, yet again!

4/14/2010 9:06:31 PM

baby making seeds

4/14/2010 9:07:28 PM

the one in front was actually towing the one behind it ... it's actually a common method for moving planes from place to place, saves energy

4/14/2010 9:07:58 PM

hahaah it hurts me

4/14/2010 9:08:34 PM

It looks like the big plane is trying to jump over the little plane!!! But he just...can't...make it.

4/14/2010 9:11:44 PM

it could be a crackhead, that got hold of tha wrong stuff

4/14/2010 9:12:07 PM

You didn't see what you thought you saw.

4/14/2010 9:15:12 PM

haha I <3 tww

4/14/2010 9:15:46 PM

i want the gold! give me the gold!

[Edited on April 14, 2010 at 9:16 PM. Reason : !]

4/14/2010 9:15:50 PM

How much for this painting?

4/14/2010 9:17:44 PM

scrapped logo for the Charlotte Flight

4/14/2010 9:18:45 PM

Does this help describe the situation?

4/14/2010 9:19:29 PM

hahahahahahaha

4/14/2010 9:20:17 PM

Can two planes take off from one treadmill?

4/14/2010 9:20:36 PM

Quote :

"Some guy said they were refueling but WHY would a commercial flight need refueling in mid air???"

might've been one of the air force one planes

used to see them fairly often around seymour johnson AFB

[Edited on April 14, 2010 at 9:26 PM. Reason : dafs]

4/14/2010 9:24:55 PM

4/14/2010 9:26:31 PM

lol at the 'dat ass' face ^

Quote :

"One was gray with no wing engines"

This plane did not refuel anything if your description is correct.

My guess is false depth perception and you saw two planes thousands of feet apart.

[Edited on April 14, 2010 at 9:28 PM. Reason : .]

4/14/2010 9:28:10 PM

^that

4/14/2010 9:36:53 PM

My guess is the sun was at such an angle and the plane was flying next to a cloud and you saw the shadow of said plane on said cloud... Maybe.

Maybe you just need to stop taking the pills, you're seeing shit.

4/14/2010 9:37:16 PM

Geez, people. The answer is plane sex. How else are little planes made? duh!

4/14/2010 9:43:22 PM

When was the last time you were refueled, Kiwi?

4/14/2010 9:44:20 PM

could be a crackplane dat got ahold of the wrong stuff

4/14/2010 9:44:29 PM

Little planes are made because people want $99 coast to coast fares. So people are crammed into the smallest space possible and the airlines still lose money.



DOHHHHHHHHHHHHH JELLO PUDDING

4/14/2010 9:45:32 PM

My theory is its casting a shadow from the other limb

4/14/2010 9:46:04 PM

president's plane re-fuels in the air....from a gray plane.. but it has "wing engines"

4/14/2010 9:47:49 PM

Quote :

"Don't be scared honey, Daddy is just refueling Mommy."

lol

to me it look like in-air refueling to me

[Edited on April 14, 2010 at 10:15 PM. Reason : .]

4/14/2010 10:14:03 PM

There was not a cloud in the sky. My dad seems to think they're military.

4/14/2010 10:14:16 PM

4/14/2010 10:16:10 PM

Yea - they're probably flying in 3D, which would explain this problem

4/14/2010 10:18:23 PM

Quote :

"the one in front was actually towing the one behind it ... it's actually a common method for moving planes from place to place, saves energy"

and when they overbook one flight and need 2

4/14/2010 10:23:23 PM

4/14/2010 10:23:31 PM

Quote :

"that picture rocks"

I think it's funny that it's exactly 20x cooler than the paintings she got trolled the fuck out of for in that etsy thread.

4/14/2010 11:09:53 PM

Quote :

"president's plane re-fuels in the air....from a gray plane.. but it has "wing engines""

The president's plane never refuels in mid-air. Too much of a safety concern. It has the ability to, just in case. (and they may practice every once in a blue moon, but never with the president on it).

Plane will not take off from a treadmill.

4/14/2010 11:14:31 PM

Quote :

"My guess is false depth perception and you saw two planes thousands of feet apart"

Possibly this.


but probably refueling. The grey plane was probably a KC-10, which has 2 engines on the wings, and one in the tail. Air Force tankers are usually dark grey.

I don't know what would've been refueling off of it, but it wouldn't have been a commercial flight.

4/14/2010 11:19:49 PM

can i just ask a quick semi related question?

i thought air force one was only called air force one if the president was on board? and the rest of the time they (the "air force ones") are called something else

is that right? i did get that info from the history channel so you can never be sure

[Edited on April 14, 2010 at 11:21 PM. Reason : .]

4/14/2010 11:20:51 PM

^^^ here we go...

^ yea the "one" designation can only be used if the president is on board (for any aircraft from any of the 5 branches of the military)

[Edited on April 14, 2010 at 11:24 PM. Reason : .]

4/14/2010 11:22:38 PM

^^^ Tanker refueling another type of tanker, AWACS or weather aircraft? That's really all I can think of and I'd say you're right that the lead aircraft could have been a KC-10 viewed from a certain angle. Well, that and the fact that it's all gray may have simply fooled her eyes.

4/14/2010 11:29:29 PM

^^ yea well that is what i meant...marine one etc

but yea. ok thanks!

4/14/2010 11:30:31 PM

Pobably right. I jutstknow the engines on the white plane REALLY stuck out n plain sight. Also both planes were moving the exact sae speed and direction over the horizon soi don't think it was a perspective thing with thembeing a thousand feet away.

4/14/2010 11:34:17 PM

^I don't think it's that uncommon to have same heading and same speed in a pattern near a major airport. Particularly on windy days @ altitude.

4/14/2010 11:45:30 PM

There goes Kiwi, carrying on her proud tradition of taking crooked pictures of things with wings.

4/14/2010 11:47:43 PM

How about a KC-10 refeuling one of the E-4's? Military 747, and it carries an all-white paint job.

E-4

4/15/2010 12:02:19 AM

Dweedle totally won this thread

DAT ASS!!!!

4/15/2010 12:06:01 AM

Looking back, it could also be one of the C-135 Variants.

The KC-135's all wear grey paint, so most likely not the trailing aircraft, but it could be one of the RC-135, OC-135, or WC-135 aircraft.

Also possible, but much less likely, was that a tanker was refueling another country's transport aircraft.

4/15/2010 12:06:52 AM

I bet a million dollars it was an E-4.

4/15/2010 8:01:12 AM