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JACK BATSON
7th Aug 2022, 15:23
Don't know if I am going mad or not, but I think that have just seen two BA 747 within 10mins. of each other flying fairly low both heading north. I thought that they were no longer in service / scrapped.
To be honest they looked absolutely beautiful.
Locked door
7th Aug 2022, 16:36
Exactly how low were they?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/british-airways-boeing-747-driven-24560145.amp
Not sure what's happened to all the hulls but as far as I can tell there are no likely candidates on the usual ADS tracking sites.
DaveReidUK
7th Aug 2022, 16:57
Aeromodellers meet ?
bigal1941
7th Aug 2022, 18:06
I saw it as well around 1900-1930 yesterday (Saturday) tracking westward at around 10000ft north of the M4. Thought the tail was painted solid red rather than the stripes. Piqued my interest.
Regards Alan
treadigraph
7th Aug 2022, 18:07
Where did you see them and what time?
JACK BATSON
7th Aug 2022, 18:17
Where did you see them and what time?
Yes I would say approximately 10,000ft passing just east of Aylesbury at around 15:45 the first one. Sounding good, looking good, definitely BA colours, very clear through the binoculars.
Tay Cough
7th Aug 2022, 18:31
Whoever they were, they weren’t BA. Guaranteed.
treadigraph
7th Aug 2022, 19:04
I saw it as well around 1900-1930 yesterday (Saturday) tracking westward at around 10000ft north of the M4. Thought the tail was painted solid red rather than the stripes. Piqued my interest.
Regards Alan
There was a BA A380 outbound Heathrow around that time, around 10000' abeam Newbury at 1911. Can't see anything else.
treadigraph
7th Aug 2022, 19:11
Yes I would say approximately 10,000ft passing just east of Aylesbury at around 15:45 the first one. Sounding good, looking good, definitely BA colours, very clear through the binoculars.
Jack, all I can see today around that time were a pair of BA 787s heading up towards Pole Hill, followed by various other 787s.
Confusious
7th Aug 2022, 19:14
Exactly how low were they?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/british-airways-boeing-747-driven-24560145.amp
Locked door, brilliant! 🤣
Wireless
7th Aug 2022, 19:47
Sure it wasn’t ACT 747 freighters? They have red tails.
Wee Clink
7th Aug 2022, 21:41
Jack, all I can see today around that time were a pair of BA 787s heading up towards Pole Hill, followed by various other 787s.
About 15 mins earlier at 15:27 BST a BA A380 ex LHR passed East of Aylesbury Northbound at 9,000 ft followed 2 mins later by another at 12,000 ft …..
DaveReidUK
7th Aug 2022, 22:08
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/316x499/jarg_1e7b22a8b33b74216f70267f96988def2b81dcbc.jpg
aeromech3
8th Aug 2022, 11:17
I was out walking the dog about that time near Frimley Green and looked up at what I at the time thought was a B747, underside spacing and size of engines appeared more akin than A380!
BRISTOLRE
4th Sep 2022, 19:22
my money is on BA A380s however those Silkway B744Fs could be deceiving dark blue, grey and some red on the logos, a lot of these into EMA and STN in recent weeks (EMA every Thurs & Fri pm arrive tea time ish)