Overhead Antonovs
Apologies if this should be in 'Spotters corner' but I figured an en rioute ATC guy might have the answer.
While enjoying the lovely sunshine this morning-11 am Saturday- (ie gardening) I saw what appeared to be a 74 contrailing east to west. Nothing unusual there I live near Blackbushe and loads of high level overflights all the time but this looked al ittle odd even to the naked eye . As I had my binoculars in car boot I had a closer look and sure enough the plane appeared bigger (could be lower of course) witha very unusual number of flap track fairings -seemed only to have two engines per wing and from my angle hard to judge if high wing or not but looked boxier than a 74. All white with blude stripe .
As it passed further west-I am guessing it was souting sort of Biggin-Compton - I could hear it and agian engine noise sounded different.
Anyway to cut to the chase was it one of the big Antonovs?
I figured the only way to find out was to ask a PPrune following ATC er who may know
Never seen one before and it looked striking against a perfect sky--cheers PB