Military plane seen at Stansted

[stanstedsteve]

Hi folks, Saw a large military plane (no markings) land at Stansted a couple of nights back, does anyone know why ?? just interested, it stayed on the ground for an hour or so then took off again, sounded great!!!!

[cornish-stormrider]

An Aeroplane?????

C'mon, if you are spotters you should be able to identify it from either noise or silhouette..................

In fact I think you will find it was........

One of the Aurora fleet support aircraft, it carries a vast amount of tools, spares, engineers and weapons. They sneak in and out of civy airports late at night so that it attracts less attention....

Oh, Bugger.

[airborne_artist]

It was a ________ collecting guys/gals/trained attack dolphins from __________ regiment/battalion/secret unit and taking them to ___________ to attack/assassinate/capture ________ .

The aircraft will be coming again on ___ at _____ hrs.

[angels]

Have we stumbled upon a rendition flight here? :eek:

[stanstedsteve]

Looked like a wide bodied VC10 type of shape, same tail fin shape and drab green/grey in colour.

[chiglet]

Looked like a wide bodied VC10 type of shape, same tail fin shape and drab green/grey in colour.

No such animal, I'm afraid. The nearest could be a C17, but that [apart from the "T" tail] looks nowt like a VC10.
watp,iktch

[aviate1138]

It was a VC 10.


Occam's Razor solution based on little or no info.

[Guest 112233]

Should have gone to Spectical Shavers - STN is a big field - could have been a Vickers Vimy in a Time warp.

[BigBoeing]

Twas VC10 full of our chaps and chapesses from Germany, on ground for an hour then of to Brize.