This past Saturday (4/11) I photographed the AN-225 flying pretty low over eastern Tennessee (north of Knoxvile). I found out later that the plane was flying from Houston to Bangor, ME. But here's what puzzles me. When I first saw it, the plane was headed ESE (~1220 EDT). Ten minutes later it came back headed WNW, ESCORTED by two smaller, gray-colored planes, that looked liked cargo types. It was further off and I couldn't get a pic.
Any ideas why this plane, heading to Maine from Texas, would make a back-and-forth detour like this and who might have been escorting it?
Thanks.
(I'll post a photo when I can figure out how.
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