Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
For some reason, there have been quite a few P180's of the Italian forces (Army/Navy/AF) into and close to London in the last 2 weeks. Noisy buggers and beautifully ugly.
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Bolar 11 crossing the North Sea showing up as a T-38! Assume its actually a 48FW F-15 which usually seem to use Bolar for a callsign.
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About to watch a Citation Mustang land on Shoreham's little runway - it's in and out pretty regularly but always seems weird to me to see a biz jet in there!
Edit: plenty of room of course!
Edit: plenty of room of course!
A CAVOK AN-12 just transiting SE UK making what could only be described as a staccato droning as it made it's way across the sky.. almost sounded mournful somehow.
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Dave, seen it depart as well via the webcam once or twice; only time I've watched that railway embankment rushing towards me has been from a C150! Flew in a Rapide off that runway as well - you can't see bugger all ahead from Seat 1A in the passenger cabin!
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"Anyone any idea what went screaming over Reading town centre yesterday (18th) late morning."
"Think that it may have been one or more of the Red Arrows Hawks! "
Cheers Chinooker!
"Think that it may have been one or more of the Red Arrows Hawks! "
Cheers Chinooker!
Very regular visitor. Have also seen (once) a Citation Jet CJ4. I wonder if 2-MSTG is actually based at Shoreham these days.
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Wow, N3682B, an Excalibur Beech 50 Twin Bonanza going into Fairoaks - direct descendent of the Queen Air and King Air I think...
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Edit: thinking it through further, Excalibur reminds me that it also step-fathered, via the Excalibur Queenair and Merlin II, the Merlin III and Metroliner though I think they share no common parts with the Beech designs.
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UR-CNN just giving Menorcan visitors a wake up call....
Edit: Just passed Reims still heading relentlessly north towards Brussels, he needs to hang a left soon...
Edit edit: ...which obligingly he has now done. Set a course more or less for Dover or Lambourne I think.
Edit: Just passed Reims still heading relentlessly north towards Brussels, he needs to hang a left soon...
Edit edit: ...which obligingly he has now done. Set a course more or less for Dover or Lambourne I think.
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Only mentioned for the reg, a TBM-900 floated past me on finals for Fairoaks earlier and it's reg was was T7-960. That's the first alpha-numeric San Marino reg I've seen.
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Every time I see T7960 as it appears on ADSB-Ex, I think it must be a Tiger Moth! A rather fast one of course...
I was on the Devon/Cornwall border alongside the A30 around midday today, then confirmed by the app two F15’s at around 5500ft, inbound westwards and then a full 180 around the countryside, great display.
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US Army Chinook clattering along the Thames heli-lane...
I was in Tavistock in January and a pair beat the place up - I didn't see them (narrow street) but they appeared on ADSB once I'd got a pint in front of me...
I was in Tavistock in January and a pair beat the place up - I didn't see them (narrow street) but they appeared on ADSB once I'd got a pint in front of me...