Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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I was watching Shoreham's runway webcam earlier as a visitor was in the circuit, bounce, bounce, drift sideways, bit of wing drop, go around and (I imagine) "let's go home! Looked to be a fair old crosswind making things interesting on the narrow tarmac runway today.
An exotic visitor came into Manchester yesterday due to the death of a crew member apparently. Air Tahiti Nui between Paris and Los Angeles. Great for spotters, but tragic for the airline, crew and passengers. Anyone know more ?
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A little later across the Peak District it gained speed, if I recall up to about 190kts.
Looking at recent flights by the same aircraft, TAS was typically 226-230 kts and IAS 173-176 kts at FL160/170. GS obviously dependent on winds aloft.
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V22 Osprey
3 of them at low level - below 500' - dark grey or black in colour flying South West between Brize Norton and Fairford about 1500Z.
Does anyone have more information.
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3 of them at low level - below 500' - dark grey or black in colour flying South West between Brize Norton and Fairford about 1500Z.
Does anyone have more information.
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Most likely the one's based at Mildenhall out and about. They do seem to practice a lot, which bearing in mind their missions seems like a good idea. Must have been impressive to see 3 of them together.
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Ref 3 Ospreys….these were en route from Mildenhall to Fairford where they have remained…..callsign was OATH 71 flight(71- 73). They were subsequently joined by 5 MC-130J’s also out of Mildenhall….callsign ASHER 41-45. These have remained at Fairford also! Believed to be there on exercise/deployment but no other details at present! Serials of all aircraft are known if anyone requires them.
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Aye aye... C-5 coming west across the top end of the English Channel, ar... er botty end of the North Sea... are we in South London going to get an overflight? Clouds? Negative. Rain? Negative... Blue sky? Check!
Been watching B-52s drifting round central USA via ADSB-Exchange on and off over the last couple of days - fascinating for some reason...
Been watching B-52s drifting round central USA via ADSB-Exchange on and off over the last couple of days - fascinating for some reason...
