Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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Thanks DR , Interesting at the time (live F24) it was def. heading for EMA.
12.30pm BST 15/4 Thanks DR , Interesting at the time (live F24) it was def. heading for EMA. looking at the flight history today, it was diverted ? Now 12.30pm its has completed 2/3 of its crossing over the Atlantic back for LHR ...
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There was a P-68 busy in middle of the Bristol Channel to the west of Lundy several weeks ago...
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Swedish Air Force C-130 just passed nearby heading southeast and descending around Farnborough area.
According to FR24 its hovering at 1300 feet above Fleet.
According to FR24 its hovering at 1300 feet above Fleet.
Certainly any plan to go to EMA had disappeared even before it took off on a CPT5J (Compton) departure:
FRA-LHR-ATL is a fairly common CargoLogicAir routing, then back via LHR to either FRA or Liege.
With the US announcing its withdrawal from Afghanistan by September, would anyone care to speculate how many of our 'interesting' flights will disappear, and if there might be extras to support the return of people and equipment? Might need a new thread if there is a lot to say on the subject.
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Two Norwegian AF Falcon 20s just passed over here - couldn't see anything as usual, blue sky does look slightly milky... Could see a Delta A330 though, the trail helped pick it out! Think they are going into Bournemouth.
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With the US announcing its withdrawal from Afghanistan by September, would anyone care to speculate how many of our 'interesting' flights will disappear, and if there might be extras to support the return of people and equipment? Might need a new thread if there is a lot to say on the subject.
Here’s hoping
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One of those "interesting" USAF C-32Bs, 02-4452, just headed past me towards Seaford, callsign Stiff 74. Wonder what he be about...?
Another mil aircraft, Trend 11, crossing into the UK from France, 26000 and 460kt, looks like inbound Mildenhall... No clue as to type.
Edit: Trend 11 went into Lakenheath, quite a fast ROD so perhaps F-15s.
Edit: Looks liked they are F-15s from Mountain Home AFB returning from temporary duty out east...
Another mil aircraft, Trend 11, crossing into the UK from France, 26000 and 460kt, looks like inbound Mildenhall... No clue as to type.
Edit: Trend 11 went into Lakenheath, quite a fast ROD so perhaps F-15s.
Edit: Looks liked they are F-15s from Mountain Home AFB returning from temporary duty out east...
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Got a Rally, G-BVAI circling overhead... Flight Tracker shows it as a helicopter! 
I wonder if the Gulfstream crew were impressed in being flown back in a C-130
The Swedish Air Force C-130 was the crew ferry, to ferry back the Swedish Air Force crew who had flown a Swedish Air Force Gulfstream into Farnborough earlier in the day, for maintenance at the Gulfstream service centre. The Gulfstream service centre at Farnborough has now taken over as the main UK site from the site they previously had at Luton airport.
I wonder if the Gulfstream crew were impressed in being flown back in a C-130
I wonder if the Gulfstream crew were impressed in being flown back in a C-130
Your moniker dates you!! I could never understand what the relevance of that particular C-141 was back in the day (the 1970s and 80s). What was its significance? I have wondered about that for years!!
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My favourite was always 66-0166, don't know why, it wasn't the first I ever saw - my older spotting mate got an airband in '76 and we saw four on 3rd September 1976 - next day was the Battle of Britain show at Biggin, which is why I remember - got my own airband a year or two later and I recall the excitement of hearing my first C-5 call up - first I ever saw!
Looking at my dusty old mil log, I never did see 64-0612 though I probably saw rather more than half of the C-141 fleet. I remember seeing six pass over one morning during the Easter holidays, either Strumble/Woodley/Dover or Lands End/Midhurst/Dover...
Looking at my dusty old mil log, I never did see 64-0612 though I probably saw rather more than half of the C-141 fleet. I remember seeing six pass over one morning during the Easter holidays, either Strumble/Woodley/Dover or Lands End/Midhurst/Dover...
The moniker was mainly because I wanted something aviation related but far removed from what I actually did in aviation. The actual relevance was beyond me as well. I just remember seeing it scrawled in various aviation locations I visited in the 1970s as well as on the seats of some buses/coaches but actually all is explained on this page if you scroll to the bottom. https://c141heaven.info/dotcom/pic_64_0612.php
Mystery solved after 40-odd years.
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Blimey, I must have had superb bladder control back then or memory has erased any lavatorial sightings of 40612... or the road sign at Mildenhall - first visit was 1979.
My first hearing of a Merlin this year, G-BMSB/MJ627 up from Biggin. Also Monsun G-AYPE, surely the longest serving resident at Biggin - must be 50 years now.
My first hearing of a Merlin this year, G-BMSB/MJ627 up from Biggin. Also Monsun G-AYPE, surely the longest serving resident at Biggin - must be 50 years now.
its successor, a C-17 broke the "don't go near Belgium" rule by landing at Brussels this evening, crossing the UK from Cornwall.
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I noticed that last night, following (almost) the old Lands End - Ibsley - Midhurst - Dover route. Didn't see where he went after Midhurst.
My school was a few miles north of Midhurst VOR (I think it's at Northchapel) and we would see some Starlifters hang a left and descend across London and into Mildenhall. Watched a KC-97 follow that route once before I had an airband, oh to have had access to modern resources then...
My school was a few miles north of Midhurst VOR (I think it's at Northchapel) and we would see some Starlifters hang a left and descend across London and into Mildenhall. Watched a KC-97 follow that route once before I had an airband, oh to have had access to modern resources then...