Secret Flight Over Manchester UK 16.04.08

[Hudson Bay]

Anybody know what was flying over MAN yesterday afternoon?

ATC very secretive and all departures routings altered at last minute with no explanation.

[Ian Brooks]

Probably twin engine and grey

Ian

[lexxity]

Are the CIA still doing rendition flights?

[bracebrace!]

Maybe Willie Walsh was up visiting and they wanted to keep you guessing so you couldn't shoot him down..... :ok:

[Lafyar Cokov]

It wasn't a Chinook off to another stag-do was it??

[greuzi]

Assume you heard ATC being 'secretive' so what was the callsign?............. or were they whispering? :rolleyes:

[ayrprox]

it was probably a watch manager going home for a kip after their shift, didnt want to be woken up by the noise of the departures :}

[Lurking123]

We're not telling you. Its a secret.:ugh:

[GS John]

If I told you, I'd have to kill you :(

[Plane Speaker]

Can't be a secret now though. Was it PM on his way to New York?

[greuzi]

Mancunian causes ATC Chaos!!


http://www.the-rocketman.com/art_center/ROCKET_BELT_WITH_KYs.jpg (http://www.the-rocketman.com/art_center/ROCKET_BELT_WITH_KY.jpg)

[fireflybob]

Is that rig fitted with TCAS?

[on21]

If it was so secret wouldn't this thread have been deleted by SIS?

[vanHorck]

Aurora? :hmm: Did you see oscillating streaks of light?

[Brewster Buffalo]

Probably twin engine and grey...twin squirrel? :p

[TSHEKUDU]

where there is smoke there is fire.......................:\

[42psi]

Probably twin engine and grey

Ian



Could it have fitted the description of a certain Cessna Caravan??

[chiglet]

Probably twin engine and grey
Ian
Could it have fitted the description of a certain Cessna Caravan??

Silly me. I always thought that Cessna Caravans only had one engine
Right. I'm on leave...but I think that Manch was on Easterlies" soooo ...Southbounds [aka] Listos One per "vortex" interval.
"Other" departures...ditto.
There "may" have been a wildy...[lost a/c]. There "may" have been a special flight.....Photo survey...Calibrator or even a UFO


Anybody know what was flying over MAN yesterday afternoon?



Lots and lots of Aeroplanes.

ATC very secretive and all departures routings altered at last minute with no explanation.

How do you know?

watpiktch

[vespasia]

Silly me. I always thought that Cessna Caravans only had one engine

'Fraid not - Cessna F406 twin also referred to as Caravan (if you want to be absolutely correct Caravan II. )

[spanishflea]

'Fraid not - Cessna F406 twin also referred to as Caravan (if you want to be absolutely correct Caravan II. )

I see there is just the one now, I could have sworn there used to be two? Or have I said too much already... :uhoh:

[chiglet]

So was it a proper [SE] "Caravan"...or a TE "CaravanII"???
IRCGAT :E
watpiktch

[42psi]

Ok ... I'll happily own up to a complete brain fade ....

I was not cleverly referring to a twin engined Caravan but the pure 'ole vanilla single .....

in my defence it was the colour I was thinking about ...

and despite that the question was genuine ... are we being asked about the (single engined) greyish Cessan Caravan that sometimes visits?



Or is this referring to the rather larger grey thing that apporached 23R the other day and then wandered off again without actually landing?


Or has someone finally noticed the twin engined grey thing that GMP send out over Wythensahw of a night?

[AircraftOperations]

The single engine caravan that makes regular appearances at MAN at the moment flies in and out VFR and shouldn't really cause any more problems to large traffic than the odd Cirrus or Seneca that use the airport.

The Herc which came in for a missed approach was well flightplanned in advance, so shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody.

The grey Defender just seems to slot in whenever/wherever it can, and doesn't always just focus on Wythenshawe, especially late at night.

[uk02048]

Lots of hints, but to a plane layman such as myself what are these little aircraft doing/transporting (apart from the GMP one, I know what that does).

[gazza007]

Was it about 16:00? heading south, approx 20K feet
Was in back garden, would say it was grey military twin turbo-prop.
Maybe CN235 or C295, engine noise brought it to my attention.

[G-BHEN]

Had some very unusual aircraft movements over our area (Mansfield, Notts) over the last week or so.

A grey DC3 looking aircraft flew low on Sunday, and a couple of times
have had a grey turboprop flying low.

Yesterday afternoon the MAFF Do228 was flying low back and forth across some fields to the north, and to top it all off at 7pm last night two grey King Airs flew over in close formation at circa 2000'.

Probably all totally unrelated, but normally the only activity around us is the odd microlight!

[42psi]

And anyone who didn't see yesterdays departure of the "lego plane" missed a rare visitor.

Big red/yellow bombadier fire fighting water bomber ...... it looks like a kid drew it!!

[AircraftOperations]

It's not the "Lego" plane - that's a Danish registered Falcon 900!

But those brightly coloured Canadairs do seem to pass through MAN from Canada to the Med as the warmer weather approaches.