Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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There is a Gulfstream V which has been orbiting at 35000' between Lichfield and Nottingham for the last 1.5 hours. Weather below limits somewhere?
Fog at Luton apparently, though some stuff is getting in. Possibly he is inbound there...
Edit: landed at Dublin a few minutes ago - must have been debating where they wanted to go for brekkers... speaking of which...
Fog at Luton apparently, though some stuff is getting in. Possibly he is inbound there...
Edit: landed at Dublin a few minutes ago - must have been debating where they wanted to go for brekkers... speaking of which...
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There is a Gulfstream V which has been orbiting at 35000' between Lichfield and Nottingham for the last 1.5 hours. Weather below limits somewhere?
Fog at Luton apparently, though some stuff is getting in. Possibly he is inbound there...
Edit: landed at Dublin a few minutes ago - must have been debating where they wanted to go for brekkers... speaking of which...
Fog at Luton apparently, though some stuff is getting in. Possibly he is inbound there...
Edit: landed at Dublin a few minutes ago - must have been debating where they wanted to go for brekkers... speaking of which...
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Ah, Antonovs ahoy - well, one AN-12 whose grinding is very audible over the hammering of rain on the pub's glazed conservatory roof...
And barely audible, a Romanian AF C-27J just went right overhead, don't suppose it would have been any louder if it had Tynes...
And barely audible, a Romanian AF C-27J just went right overhead, don't suppose it would have been any louder if it had Tynes...
I heard the AN-12 over the cloudy skies of south Bucks, sadly the driving rain put me off looking up to try and see anything.
An 124 just going into BZZ by the looks 19:14
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Blimey, someone's got a numb bum - RAF Typhoon left Coningsby on a practice QRA around 2pm and after some dinking around in the western Cornwall area, is currently dinking around in the Norfolk area, presumably occasionally topping up from Tartan 333 which has been airborne around the same length of time and in the same areas - nearly 7 hours. They could be (almost) tucking into a New York dinner by now...
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A400M about to depart Northolt, that should wake the neighbours up!
Last night (19th Nov) there were 2 sets of 3 KC-135 tankers in a line tanking an E-4B + whatever coming from the US and a 2nd set of 3 down to the eastern Med and back. Probably to do with the POTUS entourage heading home ? Maybe a fuel security concern in Egypt ?
Also, did anyone go to Doncaster today to see the last ground run of Vulcan XH558 before it will be mothballed for static display ? I'm not quite sure what it was meant to do (in terms of taxiing/runway etc)
Also, did anyone go to Doncaster today to see the last ground run of Vulcan XH558 before it will be mothballed for static display ? I'm not quite sure what it was meant to do (in terms of taxiing/runway etc)
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US Coast Guard Gulf 5 zipped over just now, descending towards Stuttgart.
Re the Voyager at Qatar, providing AAR facilities for something? Landed about half an hour ago.
Re the Voyager at Qatar, providing AAR facilities for something? Landed about half an hour ago.
US Coast Guard Gulf 5 zipped over just now, descending towards Stuttgart.
Last night (19th Nov) there were 2 sets of 3 KC-135 tankers in a line tanking an E-4B + whatever coming from the US and a 2nd set of 3 down to the eastern Med and back. Probably to do with the POTUS entourage heading home ? Maybe a fuel security concern in Egypt
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12 sqn RAF are currently in Qatar on a 6 month deployment on “Operation Thariya” which is the build up to the first Qatari Typhoon sqn becoming fully operational.