Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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Strange routing for Royissa St Petersburg to Moscow Vunokova via an overflight to Kazan !!
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I see that there is a Russian Air Force TU134AK heading towards Ukraine from Moscow right now. I wonder if that is a replacement for the dead General.
He's just turned round.
He's just turned round.
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Seeing some of the lengthy routings that Russian carriers are having to take to travel to and from the Caribbean, I wondered what the ETOPS planning implications are for twins when potential divert points are located within "off-limits" airspace, e.g. USA & Canada. Can they plan to divert to those areas anyway, as they would always be accepted in an emergency scenario?
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Eurofighter just whizzed overhead at 27000ft, seemingly chasing a French TBM7 also at 27000ft. Image from adsb here - https://i.ibb.co/TrrD2d4/Screenshot-...-03-150530.jpg
Wonder what that was about...
Wonder what that was about...
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Eurofighter just whizzed overhead at 27000ft, seemingly chasing a French TBM7 also at 27000ft. Image from adsb here - https://i.ibb.co/TrrD2d4/Screenshot-...-03-150530.jpg
Wonder what that was about...
Wonder what that was about...
Nice military noise overhead of Frome today about 0830 F15 out of Mildenhall at 19000 ft turned south and over head Yeovil turned back descending to 14000 back over Frome then south again and back over Frome and heading home to Norfolk. Got a decent view of it as it turned . Such a short flight -an airtest perhaps ?
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Couple of curious sightings on my screen today
RSD 909 arrived at Vnukovo (UUWW) today Yak-40 RA87972 at 1221 UTC point of origin unknown
Yak-40 RA87968 at 1547 UTC from Ulyanovsk
Didn’t know any Yak-40s were still flying. They were both operating for Rossiya Special Flight but different flight prefixes.
RSD 909 arrived at Vnukovo (UUWW) today Yak-40 RA87972 at 1221 UTC point of origin unknown
Yak-40 RA87968 at 1547 UTC from Ulyanovsk
Didn’t know any Yak-40s were still flying. They were both operating for Rossiya Special Flight but different flight prefixes.
Another rarity DC 8-70 lifting out of Prestwick heading South East.
US Navy Boeing C-40A Clipper on the ground at BOH 12.51 06/03/22. 13.02 just taking off as
cnv6803 to N/a
cnv6803 to N/a
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Saudi AF Herc went NW over London while I was walking back from breakfast a little earlier today. Speaking of Hercs, an interesting US civvy J went eastbound over London on Sunday evening.
Despite the chilly easterly breeze, spring-like here; the bumble bees are around and so too are the P-68s, busy snapping London and the Thames Estuary from 2500'!
Despite the chilly easterly breeze, spring-like here; the bumble bees are around and so too are the P-68s, busy snapping London and the Thames Estuary from 2500'!