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Old 11th Nov 2023, 21:57
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Fighter jet escorts airline into SFO
Does anyone recognize these planes? Around 1:40 PM PST today.


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Looks like a Biz jet on a parrallel approach to me.
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Could be
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Maybe a photo shoot?
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Originally Posted by visibility3miles
Does anyone recognize these planes? Around 1:40 PM PST today.
Provenance of the photo?

Taken from where?

Exact time? (should be in the EXIF).
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Exact time was 1:24 PM PST. Photo taken from southeast of Golden Gate Bridge (Presidio) and Northeast of Golden Gate Park facing due South.

Someone I know took the photo and was curious.
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Looks like parallel approaches. That’s not a fighter.
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Parallel approaches happen all the time at SFO
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Correction - photo was taken facing due North, so near Golden Gate Bridge or North.
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Maybe a photo shoot?
UAL3827 looks like a photo sortie with a brand new A321. Multiple passes over the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Small Embraer it seems not a fighter
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UAL3827 looks like a photo sortie with a brand new A321. Multiple passes over the Golden Gate Bridge.
United's first A321neo, delivered last month.
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Flyertalk has it as a brand new A321 in a photo shoot....

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...lanes-tow.html

here is the routing...https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL3827
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pprune has it as a brand new A321 in a photo shoot....
How did you work that out ?
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Originally Posted by visibility3miles
Does anyone recognize these planes? Around 1:40 PM PST today.

it's the B21A first flight in disguise?
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Thanks everyone! I’m told the weather was great - bright and clear.
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How did you work that out ?
that’s correct. Was in sfo to do etops proving to Hawaii. New to the fleet, so marketing got their hands on it.
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Photo flights.

Found these.

https://www.planespotters.net/photo/...bus-a321-271nx

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao...11&trackLabels

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao...12&trackLabels




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First I saw an F35, due to the suggestion from the OP that it was a fighter! My eye said it was an Embraer bizjet, but damnit it was a fighter..... ;-) Those smartphone cameras are wonderful in so many ways, but when on extended zoom, the software aliases what it thinks is the shape of the object and misidentification can be pretty easy.
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