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HPP has been overflown several times over the last few days by a very fast, very loud, with a high pitched engine noise, smallish white/gray airplane with vertical tips on the wings. It seemed low, but that is hard to judge when a fast plane is directly overhead against a cloudy sky.
Do any of you aviation experts know what it was and who is flying it for what purpose?
Carol
Carol
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ITO flight tracker ma help identify it next time it comes by
http://flightaware.com/live/airport/PHTO
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It is flying over in the same pattern each time, either it is flying in loops or else there are more than one. Not a commercial passenger plane (too small) and it doesn't look like any executive jet I've ever seem either. Seems like a specialized 1 to 4 person plane. It is very angular with no curved lines to the wings.
Carol
edited to add:
It looked kind of like this:
http://www.sybarites.org/2006/12/diamond...d-jet-vlj/
and just went overhead for the 3rd time this morning.
Carol
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We've been getting buzzed by it.
Reminds me of when my ship got buzzed by MIG's (1972, somewhere in the China Sea off North Vietnam)!
Elizabeth got a look as it went by yesterday and said that, unlike the photo you showed, Carol, there were jet engines on the rear (one on each side).
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Yes..I saw it in HPP yesterday and it was a jet plane. I figured it was some sort of military craft.
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looked like one of the bigger Learjet's
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Carol, I have seen a white experimental licensed (maybe a kit) plane (looked like a pusher plane) being towed down Hwy 130 (wings with angular tips folded in)a couple of times, & in Keaau town once... maybe someone in HPP area owns it???
Plus most all this week the flight patterns at Hilo Inter. have been reversed & normal traffic has been over Hilo & UHH....so....????
