Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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See it's actually now registered G-NWHF and flown by Navy Wings from Yeovilton. Was it the Navy themed show at Old Warden today?
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Speaking of... there is an aeronautical conveyance proceeding in southerly direction across Salisbury Plain at low level and some speed - the ADSB i/d reads REDARROW. I wonder what it is...? 
Edit: into Bournemouth I think...
Edit: into Bournemouth I think...
USAF VC-25 heading over SW UK and London now, must be the back up steed, as it doesn't have AF1 callsign. An E-4B was ahead of it but disappeared from my tracker.
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Just noticed that meself... didn't see the E-4! 
Heard it but no sighting, fairly cloudy.
Heard it but no sighting, fairly cloudy.
Yes same, standing outside like a lemon, head tilted to the side, camera ready. Alas the very clear sound was the only thing I got, despite a few little gaps here and there no sighting. Perhaps they've upgraded the security protocols with the various aircraft due to present tensions with tracking etc. Good for them, bad for the spotters.
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I was referring to that even on un-filtered adsb sites there seems to have been a sporadic, or even total blackout of locations/flight info, whereas usually in the last years AF1 shows up on most of the trackers as well as the reserve fleet, plus transports and command posts etc. This time it seemed not to be the case.
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Saw the squawk of a Hawk T1 depart from Humberside and head for Cleethorpes promenade. It arrived accompanied by six (!) others, at the advertised time and flew a seven ship display for many thousands of spectators visiting the Armed Forces Weekend. They did a good job despite the very strong off shore wind. The only downside was that the conditions very rapidly dispersed the smoke trails. Cleethorpes has probably never been so busy for many, many years! It was so packed that we eventually decided to forgo the crowded footpaths and walk the mile and a half back to our car via the beach.
Shy, Just a slight correction, the 2022 seven ship team flew in from Scampton, not Humberside, returning to Scampton to pick up their overnight bags and circus colleagues for the evening flight down to Bournemouth. Red 10 had gone separately by chopper to Scarborough and Cleethorpes, getting back to Scampton in time to take the eighth jet.
I'm not quite sure I get your drift G-AZRG.
I was referring to that even on un-filtered adsb sites there seems to have been a sporadic, or even total blackout of locations/flight info, whereas usually in the last years AF1 shows up on most of the trackers as well as the reserve fleet, plus transports and command posts etc. This time it seemed not to be the case.
I was referring to that even on un-filtered adsb sites there seems to have been a sporadic, or even total blackout of locations/flight info, whereas usually in the last years AF1 shows up on most of the trackers as well as the reserve fleet, plus transports and command posts etc. This time it seemed not to be the case.
Of course they send Mode S, which in theory would allow them to be plotted by MLat, but it may well be that the trackers using this technique voluntarily suppress tracking of AF1.
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Shy, Just a slight correction, the 2022 seven ship team flew in from Scampton, not Humberside, returning to Scampton to pick up their overnight bags and circus colleagues for the evening flight down to Bournemouth. Red 10 had gone separately by chopper to Scarborough and Cleethorpes, getting back to Scampton in time to take the eighth jet.
I stood a few hundred metres south of the display centre on the main promenade and I was aware of the NOTAM as depicted on SkyDemon, which showed the proposed track and ETAs at the various turning points. So I was on FR24 expecting to see a squawk on that same track, but there was no sign of one. Towards the due time I did wonder if the Reds weren’t going to appear at all when an “XXreg” squawk appeared just south of Humberside Airport. On interrogation of said aircraft it came up as a Hawk and showed it as having departed from there. I watched it turn and fly to our overhead.
I presume the commentator travelled by the Shawbury EC135. We never actually heard any commentary at all so I expect the PA system was very limited to a small area around the display line centre.
In the still of the night, I was surprised that at about 02.00 this morning the sound of an aircraft passing overhead by London City caused me to get up and check - it was a TUI 737-800, BY759, Antalya to Birmingham, passing over the house at 31,000 ft, starting its descent into Birmingham. Only aircraft around at that time. Now I really wouldn't expect the sound of a modern smaller aircraft at altitude, throttled back for its descent, to be audible from the ground. But it was.
In the still of the night, I was surprised that at about 02.00 this morning the sound of an aircraft passing overhead by London City caused me to get up and check - it was a TUI 737-800, BY759, Antalya to Birmingham, passing over the house at 31,000 ft, starting its descent into Birmingham. Only aircraft around at that time. Now I really wouldn't expect the sound of a modern smaller aircraft at altitude, throttled back for its descent, to be audible from the ground. But it was.
my house a few miles south of Cambridge must be on or near a waypoint. Dependent on wind direction. (NE or SW) we get both Luton and Stansted turning inbound (7 to 9k feet). Then all night freighters from airports in near Europe dropping down into East Midlands tracking right overhead (20 thousand feet) mainly 757 and 747's but also ilyushin twin prop jobs that you can hear coming for a long time before they get here. During the day10:00 to 10:30 the big jets out of CDG to Northern America, 31thousand ++ so as you can see it's a spotters heaven. Oh and then over the weekend the rich boys toys out of Duxford right down at a thousand feet or less, we've stopped looking now unless the engine notes are different like the other day a Lysander(??) maybe heading to Old Warden now that was special
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See the B-17 is currently orbiting near Billingshurst at very low level - assume another Goodwood performer awaiting time on stage.
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Also a Conair Dash 8 water bomber C-GUJK just heading SE at 25000' towards Worthing....
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B-17 didn't do Goodwood, just flew past here! Good to hear the Cyclones even though I couldn't see it - bloody trees at the end of the garden and a turn on to a more northerly heading put paid to that!