Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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P-47 G-THUN up and about out of Sywell...
A couple of the semi-regular AN26's of Vulkan Air transiting London yesterday, one was so deep and resonant to be unmissable for the ears, the other so quiet as to be no louder than some private twin prop, both on more or less the same flightpath. I'm always fascinated by the acoustic differences due to weather/air-density.
A couple of F-15's went by the eastern edge of London in the last 30mins, seem to be doing a low-ish level sortie west of Le Harve. Is there a WW2 memorial event today ?
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Surprised I didn't hear them, sitting next to an open window just a handful of miles west of track. They are coming back past in a few mins, ears cocked! Shame it's a bit completely overcast...
Could just hear them over the ambient noise!
Could just hear them over the ambient noise!
Did not advertise it yesterday for all sorts of obvious reasons but an RAF AWACS and a USA KC135 were "playing" around in the same general area at between two and five thousand feet over the Norfolk Suffolk border. Living in east anglia It's not unusual to see tankers and C130's doing "racetracks" over the Wash and south from there but to see two big beasts sort of together is worth watching, I followed them for about 30 mins (I've got screengrab if any one wants it) and then they both went invisible :-(
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AN-12 UR-CIC zipped over earlier this afternoon out of Brum, more southerly route than usual over the M23/M25 junction - its blue scheme perfect camouflage against the blue sky!
Just noticed Bird Dog G-VNAM out of Lasham. Don't think I've ever seen a Bird Dog flying in the UK, just the one in the museum at Middle Wallop...
Just noticed Bird Dog G-VNAM out of Lasham. Don't think I've ever seen a Bird Dog flying in the UK, just the one in the museum at Middle Wallop...
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Qantas A380 VH-OQD just passed us out of Heathrow to Singapore, interesting only because it seems we haven't had their A380s here for a while, suspended presumably due to Covid. Pleased to see them back.
When did they resume, and when did they suspend the A380 into the UK I wonder?
When did they resume, and when did they suspend the A380 into the UK I wonder?
Qantas A380 VH-OQD just passed us out of Heathrow to Singapore, interesting only because it seems we haven't had their A380s here for a while, suspended presumably due to Covid. Pleased to see them back.
When did they resume, and when did they suspend the A380 into the UK I wonder?
When did they resume, and when did they suspend the A380 into the UK I wonder?
Rolling over the house this morning into Heathrow was a Bamboo Airways 787-9, from Hanoi. Now it just would have long seemed so unlikely, for decades, to have such a nonstop service connecting these two points. Not even the mainstream operator in Vietnam, but a start-up. I haven't looked up when the service started. The world does move on.
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Two Gentlemen's Aerial Carriages within a few minutes, saw the Dragonfly out of Biggin, Paul McConnell's Staggerwing was following the M25, just a bit too distant/low down.
Sarfend had a couple of Spitfire visitors this morning along with several bizjets while Biggin's runway was closed for a while.
edit: possibly a power outage according to the Bizjet section...
Sarfend had a couple of Spitfire visitors this morning along with several bizjets while Biggin's runway was closed for a while.
edit: possibly a power outage according to the Bizjet section...
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A rather loud CFC C-130J went over just now and kindly did a kink in it's flightpath over London, which allowed those of us with wandering eyes to witness it's greyness heading into the lowering sun.
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Flyadeal A320 HZ-FAI headed down "Green 1" out of St Athan - presume been on maintenance. Can't say I've ever heard of them...
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9 & 10th July Spitfire (photo recon Blue one) out and back to Southport air show I am guessing, straight over the house on return and a bit to the West outbound on Sat.
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What happened to the old way of registering aircraft - just noted a Maltese Beech 200, 9H-PARTS out of Stansted... Some of the South American registers seem to have some excessive suffixes as well...
(I remember the ill fated Citation based at Biggin, G-UESS with "Who" appended in a different typeface...)
(I remember the ill fated Citation based at Biggin, G-UESS with "Who" appended in a different typeface...)
I have wondered about that as well, there definitely seems to be a lack of discipline in the registers of many countries nowadays, especially with 4 letters or a mixture of letters and numbers, or just numbers after the suffix.
A Turkish AF A400 went over London in the last half hour pretty lowish for either Northolt or Brize. It sounded different to the RAF A400's, perhaps the engine choice is different ? Anyhow, it went into Farnborough, which seems a strange choice, but I'm sure that they have good reasons.
A Turkish AF A400 went over London in the last half hour pretty lowish for either Northolt or Brize. It sounded different to the RAF A400's, perhaps the engine choice is different ? Anyhow, it went into Farnborough, which seems a strange choice, but I'm sure that they have good reasons.
A somewhat normal London flyover, but unusual in it's altitude. A USAF KC-135 heading northwards into Mildenhall went over at 15,000ft and very kindly did a wing-over to quite an extreme level as it sailed by. For those in Cambridgeshire or Nor/Suffolk an everyday occurrence, but for the city dwellers it provided un unexpected frisson of excitement.
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I imagine the Turkish A400 is there in connection with thd airshow; Turks seem to be supplying some useful drone technology to the Ukrainians...