Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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Not a current pot, but been amusing myself with Googlemaps in the evening several times recently looking around airports - noticed several Starships on ramps somewhere in the Mid West/North Western States! Looking up the type to see how many are still active (4 or 5?), it seems one US registered aircraft is based in Germany - which may explain what I saw on FR24 heading NE at about 18000' over High Wycombe a few years ago - thought it must be a mistake!
Edit: Hark! No, not a Herald or even an Angel, those baritone (well maybe) turboprops singing overhead announce the passage of an AN-26...
Edit: Hark! No, not a Herald or even an Angel, those baritone (well maybe) turboprops singing overhead announce the passage of an AN-26...
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AN26 Direct over Bracknell Great sound ! as always , clear night.
21:31 AN26 Direct over Bracknell Great sound ! as always , clear night ; Info @ 21:36 GMT : Reg.:UR-CQV Ukraine DB flags: none Type : AN26 ANTONOV An-26 Type Desc.:L2T Squawk: 2045History SPATIAL Speed:231 kt Altitude:16975 ft Vert. Rate: 0 ft/min Track: 103.3° Pos.: 51.369°, -0.386° Distance: 14.3 NM from Bracknell - From out of Shannon .
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Flight Tracker didn't show it at all, ADSB Exchange did with reg - assume that's where TFC got his info?
Saw my first ever AN-26 at Gatwick a couple of days before Christmas 1978; one of five on delivery to Cuba, it had gone tech...
This one: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1562948
Saw my first ever AN-26 at Gatwick a couple of days before Christmas 1978; one of five on delivery to Cuba, it had gone tech...
This one: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1562948
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See Emirates A380s are back at Gatwick and also Qatari A380s at Heathrow - is this recent or have I been unobservant?
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Yes, I noticed that as well. I think that they've gone over to the USA to help out with NetJets USA bookings for the Christmas rush to get to the Caribbean for the rich peeps.
A few days ago, I was at a park near Paine Field (Everett) - and there was what I'm reasonably sure was an electric airplane doing circuits. It was basically shaped like a sailplane (long, thin high aspect ratio wings) but was nearly silent - no motor noise, just a drone like whirring noise from the prop.
I know there is at least one aircraft company working on battery powered aircraft headquartered at Paine Field - I wonder if was watching a test...
I know there is at least one aircraft company working on battery powered aircraft headquartered at Paine Field - I wonder if was watching a test...
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Bell Aerospace's Basler DC-3 C-FTGI has been busy surveying the NW Cornish coastal area between St Ives (Snives) and Newquay today... it got a mention on the Beeb a few days ago.
A red tailed Boeing 747-400 at Bournemouth this morning parked on the ramp where the European Cargo A340s normally park. I couldn't read the small name on it as I went past.
Is this now doing the Covid flight to Fouzou?
Is this now doing the Covid flight to Fouzou?
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Happy New Year!
F-35 out of Lakenheath disporting itself over the North Sea at the mo, first USAF (presumably) I've noticed since they arrived a few weeks ago.
F-35 out of Lakenheath disporting itself over the North Sea at the mo, first USAF (presumably) I've noticed since they arrived a few weeks ago.
