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Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?

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Old 5th Sep 2020, 11:23
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Just the one flying these days (it visited Boscombe Down in April), plus a very smart-looking ground instructional airframe at Malmen.
It visited Edinburgh in June 20th too.
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Old 8th Sep 2020, 19:23
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Boris Force One is on tanker duty tonight off the Lincolnshire coast.
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Old 9th Sep 2020, 00:12
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Driving into Helston from the West this afternoon (8 Sep) I spotted an Atlas overshooting at Culdrose, then climbing out to the North - certainly never seen one down here before. Then driving back about 45 mins later I saw it again. Whether it had landed in the interim I don't know, but it certainly made a change from Merlins, Hawks and Avengers
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Old 9th Sep 2020, 11:45
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Looks like the Army Air Corps drew the short straw today


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Old 9th Sep 2020, 11:58
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And yesterday morning as well. I wonder if the Reapers weren't suitable for the task. The private drone still seems to be doing the night shift though. I wish the French would just stop the people from leaving their coast, it's costing so much money all told.
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Old 9th Sep 2020, 12:12
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I said elsewhere on here, it would probably be cheaper and lest risky for all involved, if we just sent a weekly ferry to pick them up. At least we could control where they landed
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Old 9th Sep 2020, 14:54
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G-PBYA
Just noticed that Catalina G-PBYA was airborne S of Cambridge earlier this afternoon,possibly flying circuits at Duxford.
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Old 9th Sep 2020, 16:23
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Looks like the Army Air Corps drew the short straw today
Strictly speaking, it was the RAF.

UK transfers Defender and Islander special mission aircraft from AAC to RAF
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Old 10th Sep 2020, 09:57
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Catalina G-PBYA is up again just flown over just north of Luton and just about overhead Leighton Buzzard.
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Old 10th Sep 2020, 12:18
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TTNv,but they weren`t real `Avengers`...from Grumman`s dockyard...
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Old 10th Sep 2020, 12:51
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Is that Tony H-T?
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Old 10th Sep 2020, 14:54
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Originally Posted by sycamore
but they weren`t real `Avengers`...from Grumman`s dockyard...
Though of course most Avengers hadn't been anywhere near Grummans either - which is why, more often than not, the aircraft gets referred to as the TBM (M = General Motors) rather than the TBF.
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Old 10th Sep 2020, 17:30
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Hurricane LF363 on its way home from Guernsey via a stop at Bournemouth. Just abeam Southampton heading roughly towards Basingstoke.

...and it's just coincided with Spitfire P7350 near Aylesbury. They seem to have been passing ships...
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Old 10th Sep 2020, 17:58
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Originally Posted by Mr @ Spotty M
Catalina G-PBYA is up again just flown over just north of Luton and just about overhead Leighton Buzzard.
Heading for Guernsey & the Battle of Britain display.
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Old 11th Sep 2020, 15:36
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Saw these 5 in the space of above ten minutes from WEST Bracknell ( 16:15 BST )
Socata TBM700 N700CS white silver blue think from from Fairoaks S>N..
Airbus Helicopters AS355 Ecureuil G-TIJL grey from Chichester S>N ..
Piper PA-28-181 G-OODW blue white from ? W>E ..
Robinson R44 Raven I G-EVEE blue from Wycombe W>E ..
All above between 1000 feet and 1500 feet - all impressive, Socata High Revs ! climbing
Pilatus PC-12/47 2-FLYT 9000 feet from ? N>S ..
ALL 5 skimming London Control Area
Remember From Monday 14/9 can't have more than Six ! in a Business Plane :-)
PS. found great UK airfields Map here :-) ;
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer...221471244&z=10
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Old 12th Sep 2020, 12:30
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Two DH89A in close formation over Central London at 1,700 ft. Pleasant sight and sound. G-AIYR and another, presumably from Duxford.


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Voyager ZZ330 from the 'Hall up to abeam Aberdeen and now heading back south using a "different" call sign - MDS 712.
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Originally Posted by esscee
Voyager ZZ330 from the 'Hall up to abeam Aberdeen and now heading back south using a "different" call sign - MDS 712.
It was a QRA scramble. Two Russian Navy Tu-142 Bear Fs over the North Sea. Typhoons scrambled out of Leuchars.

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Old 13th Sep 2020, 06:49
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Originally Posted by TEEEJ
scrambled out of Leuchars.
I never expected to hear those words again in my lifetime ...
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
I never expected to hear those words again in my lifetime ...
I just wished that I could have posted RAF Leuchars!
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