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RFF7709 IL-62 RA-86572 almost overhead UlaanBataar heading roughly southeast FL390 530 knots 223rd Flight Unit State Airline. No departure point or destination showing 1022. BST
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I heard it while out in the garden, unusually a very faint drone for some reason; I was looking for something small in the sky above perhaps a King Air or something... ah well!
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Call sign 45451 just airborne from St.Petersburg and through 8000’ in the climb, heading south east
TU-134 RA-65729 Russian Air Force
No destination shown. 2105 BST
TU-134 RA-65729 Russian Air Force
No destination shown. 2105 BST
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USAF C130Js.
Two C130Js observed on ADS-B 2145 to 2200 to seaward of the Wash in very close formation flyiing at 245 kts and 5000' , can C130s inflight refuel each other ??
Must be this one overhead me here in the garden right now.
Meridian Air Cargo An-12 UR-CIC, 21,000 ft, Liverpool to Paris, headed due east across Central London (hmmm, that's not the way from Liverpool to Paris - but whatever). For ONCE perfectly silhouetted at altitude against high cirrus. Heard it coming, no computer needed, looked up and there it was. Classic drone from four, ever so slightly unsynchronised props.
Meanwhile, on this pleasant warm summer evening, the rest of the family just carried on eating ... Come on Little Miss WHBM, aged 9, it's an Antonov, you don't see one every day, up there (points), look up ... um ... no.
Meridian Air Cargo An-12 UR-CIC, 21,000 ft, Liverpool to Paris, headed due east across Central London (hmmm, that's not the way from Liverpool to Paris - but whatever). For ONCE perfectly silhouetted at altitude against high cirrus. Heard it coming, no computer needed, looked up and there it was. Classic drone from four, ever so slightly unsynchronised props.
Meanwhile, on this pleasant warm summer evening, the rest of the family just carried on eating ... Come on Little Miss WHBM, aged 9, it's an Antonov, you don't see one every day, up there (points), look up ... um ... no.
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I heard two an-26s, the latest about 25 mins ago... UR-CQD and CQE I think they were. Sitting outside a Forest Hill pub all afternoon and the most audible aviation occurrence was the wounded mastodon bellow of a flap extending Swiss A220.
Oh, we have that noise from the A220 here on approach to London City, of course. But is it the flap extension (BAe146-style), or is it some harmonic from the P&W geared engines ? We get it on the ground as well.
And it really was turboprop evening yesterday. Within a short while after the An-12 there was firstly a Dash 8-Q400, not of our LCY regular Luxair, but of FlyBe, inward bound to Heathrow from Amsterdam. Now it is indeed nice to see Flybe back, but they do seem to have (as ever) chosen some oddball routes, and a small offering on Amsterdam to Heathrow against the big competition does seem strange. Then there was another An-26, following its 4-engined big brother, and that actually crossed overhead at the same moment as a Pilatus PC-12 on a perpendicular track. Which had the least engine(s), and the greatest noise, of the lot.
And it really was turboprop evening yesterday. Within a short while after the An-12 there was firstly a Dash 8-Q400, not of our LCY regular Luxair, but of FlyBe, inward bound to Heathrow from Amsterdam. Now it is indeed nice to see Flybe back, but they do seem to have (as ever) chosen some oddball routes, and a small offering on Amsterdam to Heathrow against the big competition does seem strange. Then there was another An-26, following its 4-engined big brother, and that actually crossed overhead at the same moment as a Pilatus PC-12 on a perpendicular track. Which had the least engine(s), and the greatest noise, of the lot.
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Neither did I, walking home and for once not glancing at my phone all that often! Blast!
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KIWI 44. New Zealand airforce C-130. NZ7003 is currently crossing English Channel headed towards Seaford. Should route across Southern England back into Brize!
Yes, as mentioned earlier in the thread, it's been based over here for the last couple of months, mostly shuttling between the Balkans and Finland.
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Just suffered an invasion of microbes, bunch of small mower-engined winged thingies, some of them canvas lawn darts, passing over at low rate of knots...
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Oldie but goldie!
Boeing 727-21 VP-BAT has just popped up getting ready to depart Bodrum (LTFE) destination undisclosed now airborne heading west (0826 BST) Originally a Pan-Am aircraft from the German domestic services from and to Berlin
Isn't VP-BAT now a Global 7500, having previously been a B747SP?