re: #94 Alouette

They had those planes flying into Israel in ‘73, loaded with stuff. The C-5 makes a 747 look like a mosquito!

It has a slightly distinctive fuselage shape. So, even though it was wayyyyyy up there, through binoculars I could make it out.

One detail, though, is that the wings seemed pretty far up near the nose, which made me think it possibly could be a B-52 Stratofortress, but I thought those were all decommissioned. 90% chance it was a C-5, 10% possibility it was a B-52. No way it was civilian.