mathogre
8th of March 2010 (Mon), 23:15
Hi! I was at DCA Monday taking photos of planes departing and arriving. At around 11:43AM, an odd looking plane was climbing from the east, as if coming from Andrews. It climbed and was westbound. I was using my XSi with the 55-250mm zoom, shutter priority of 1/800s. The photo below is the best of the bunch, though I have others. This is a 100% crop.
It looks as if it says United States of America across the upper part of the fuselage. The body and engine layout looks like an older 747. At first I thought it might have been one of the Air Force One 747s, but it was not escorted (not that it would need to be if the President wasn't in it). Also, the paint scheme isn't the same as for the Presidential aircraft, at least as far as I know. There's also this thing behind the front hump that appears to be an air inlet. It isn't an anomaly of the photograph, as it appears in all of them. A bit of Googling lead me nowhere.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
http://homepage.mac.com/mathogre/.Pictures/01/IMG_2448_crop.jpg
It looks as if it says United States of America across the upper part of the fuselage. The body and engine layout looks like an older 747. At first I thought it might have been one of the Air Force One 747s, but it was not escorted (not that it would need to be if the President wasn't in it). Also, the paint scheme isn't the same as for the Presidential aircraft, at least as far as I know. There's also this thing behind the front hump that appears to be an air inlet. It isn't an anomaly of the photograph, as it appears in all of them. A bit of Googling lead me nowhere.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
http://homepage.mac.com/mathogre/.Pictures/01/IMG_2448_crop.jpg