The Case of the Missing E3

[Justin39640]

I can't take it Reheat. I feel a ban at ATS coming on. I remember that night at the Memorial opening (I think you were there too weren't you?) when I saw Zoe's marker. For the first time, all of this research became real and a 6'4" 250 pound man cried like a baby and I could not control it. Darn no-planers just me off to no end

ETA: I can't do it, I can't handle ATS ... they are all yours!

I drove through 50 to 60 "Arches" in the months following 9/11. Every one, Niagara Falls. Truthers in general get about the same reaction from me (as the no-planers get from you).

 

[jaydeehess]

Sabrina, it's not just NEADS. The entire USAF uses UTC time in virtually everything. Command Post Logs, schedules, everything that I can think of is recorded in UTC or Zulu time (same thing).

When I worked for Transport Canada ALL logs were filled out using UTC. I worked on ILS, DME/VOR , and UHF/VHF comm. Every time we entered the building we wrote in the log when(in UTC) and why and what was done. To not do so got you a reprimand even if all you were doing was going in to take out the trash.

 

[funk de fino]

Sabrina, it's not just NEADS. The entire USAF uses UTC time in virtually everything. Command Post Logs, schedules, everything that I can think of is recorded in UTC or Zulu time (same thing).

Even us Brits used Zulu time.

 

[fezzic]

For what it's worth 7777 is reserved for interceptor aircraft on active air defense missions. I can't see that an E3 would ever squawk that code. Is it possible that rather than being a reference to the aircraft's transponder code it was shorthand for saying it was deploying on an air defense mission?

I would like to propose that the mode 3 7777 reference actually referred to the next line which was referring to the 4 F-15s assigned as escorts for AF1. Notice how the "to escort" and "mode 3 7777" is slanted and slightly smaller than the previous words Sentry 40 SO33 (5033?) as if the writer was trying to fit in more info after he'd already written the line for 3771 mode (3) AF1 since putting it on the same line might engender confusion about what code AF1 was sqawking.

I suppose what looks like a "C" on that line (CFI) referring to the F-15s might actually be a line to indicate that Sentry 40 was the callsign of the fighters (FI), which had guns only, and that they were initially sqawking 5033 until reassigned an air defense mission which would they would change to 7777? Hmmm, maybe if Sentry 40 5033 was the reference to the fighters then writing mode 3 7777 might be more appropriate on that line than putting it below on the next line.

This would account for the E-3 not sqawking 7777 on the radar traces.

 

[Reheat]

I would like to propose that the mode 3 7777 reference actually referred to the next line which was referring to the 4 F-15s assigned as escorts for AF1.

Nope! Good guess, but wrong. The call sign Sentry absolutely indicates an E-3. The rest of your hypothesis is possible, but not that call sign.

ETA: This thread is over anyway. All of the E=3's have been found. There is no more mystery....