Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
Originally Posted by N707ZS
Ukraine and Russia used to be the main senders of AN-30s to Fairford. Other than that the Open skies treaty used to produce the odd one.
Originally Posted by The AvgasDinosaur
Aeroflot are still operating at least one Bermudan registered A359 VP-BXA Flew Shremetayvo to Sochi as AFL1116 this morning.
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It's a static exhibit, the full list of movements can be found here :- https://threshold.aero/riat-2022-movements
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Originally Posted by SpringHeeledJack
Thanks BE! I've had a look on fightercontrol, but there didn't seem to be any mention of the airshow.
Try the RIAT section within the UK Airshows section and (if you are a member with at least 5 posts anywhere on the forum) try the UK OTT/Heads-up section.
Aha! I was only looking on the normal Fairford forum and there seemed to be mostly posts about dragon ladies....I'm not a member and only visit now and again, so despite looking through the various categories didn't see the airshow sections. Thanks for the pointers.
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Thanks for the heads up about the E-4, I was in a pub garden totally oblivious to things aeronautical all yesterday afternoon!
Another E-4 is airborne and on its way home from Souda Bay on Crete, been on stand-by for Biden during his ME visit. Sadly I doubt it'll head up our way, prob do some air to air refuelling off western France.
Another E-4 is airborne and on its way home from Souda Bay on Crete, been on stand-by for Biden during his ME visit. Sadly I doubt it'll head up our way, prob do some air to air refuelling off western France.
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Have been browsing ADS-B Exchange - tracking 9564 aircraft (adsbexchange.com) this evening and noticed an unusual aircraft over Central Scotland for some hours with limited but interesting info : Reg/Type Code GND, no speed given but altitude shown as 62,000 ft. Any idea what this might be?
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Originally Posted by treadigraph
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!
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Originally Posted by treadigraph
Sadly this aircraft crashed last night with the loss of its crew.
Military weapons to Bangladesh, apparently (possibly Russian ones if loaded in Serbia - nobody will admit to buying Russian products at the moment). The sort of thing these guys do, no questions asked.
Greece plane crash: Cargo aircraft was carrying weapons to Bangladesh - minister - BBC News
Actually seems to have turned back to Kavala when over the Aegean. Seems to have been going down at 5,000 ft/min and over 200kts at the end, not aligned with the runway. Poor crew.
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Gulfstream 5 heading this way apparently at 49000' - see they can get up to 51000'... Saw him too, leaving a con trail - suspect that's the highest flying aircraft I've ever seen!
Re the P180, heard it go over while I was in the shower, pretty the last time I went to the RIAT in the 1990s, the ItAF looped one!
Edit: out of interest, would today's extreme temperatures have any significant effect on altitude readouts? I assume ADSB is picking up data from a pressure sensitive altimeter?
Re the P180, heard it go over while I was in the shower, pretty the last time I went to the RIAT in the 1990s, the ItAF looped one!
Edit: out of interest, would today's extreme temperatures have any significant effect on altitude readouts? I assume ADSB is picking up data from a pressure sensitive altimeter?
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