Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
The aircraft in question was retired to AMARC in 2015, which would suggest that the upgrade programme is dormant, if not dead.
A very loud Qatar AF C-130 overhead London early afternoon, a Ukranian AN-26 going along the South Coast and a US GLF3 doing spaghetti circuits over the west country, either Mil or Geo by the looks of it.
The Qatar C-130J popped up briefly yesterday with a Marshalls callsign, so looks like a post-maintenance airtest. Today's flight used the more usual DEMA callsign and disappeared heading SSE at FL270, so presumably homebound.
The A318 'Babybus' is in flight. FR24 shows BA9279 from MAD-ENS - Madrid, yes; Enschede, not sure about that as currently 1330 GMT out over the bay of Biscay!
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A380 F-WWOW at play in the Brest area - also a pair of French Falcon 20s F-GPAA and AD, presumably being used in a similar role to the FR Falcons.
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Scrapping or some sort of ground based use?
You're right Dave, but not exactly the most direct routing! Final fly-by (at FL390) of LHR?
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Bloody hell - only 12 years old...
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just had a a comment from SWMBO living here in Bicester, used to dash outside in days past when the Air Atlantique DC6 & Electra's used to go overhead on their paper runs etc, still doing same some 20 years later when the AN12 & 26 go overhead, what will the next 20 years bring ? assuming am still alive & can still dash outside ?.
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French AF Xingu out of Brum just passed over me during a nice sunny spell.
See Boeing only built 69 737-600s and most have been scrapped or are parked - seems to equate roughly to the 100 in size.
See Boeing only built 69 737-600s and most have been scrapped or are parked - seems to equate roughly to the 100 in size.
I saw the Xingu as well, or should I say heard it and spotted the whitish dot heading over. Can't be many of them flying outside of the FAF squadrons these days.