Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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Macchi M-345 CPX624 sailed over here earlier en route Stornoway, Brum, Lille and more onwards.
Gentle hum overhead is an eastbound Danish P-68 at 9000'....
Gentle hum overhead is an eastbound Danish P-68 at 9000'....
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Cor, that Saudi AF Herc that just flew south over Croydon was loud! Another one further to the west...
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Noticed the call sign "KRF" the other day... 'twas the Royal Barge lugging KCIII over to Germany - took a mo to process!
As I write I have a couple of Typhoons swooping down over my house to carry out ground attacks on the cereal crop beyond my garden gate. It really is most invigorating to watch and no doubt even more invigorating for those partaking ! I expect it will rain as a result.
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Marauding thunderstorms passing over London are causing a rethink in Heathrow's eastern holds... I was looking forward to a bit of son et lumiere, but the electricity seemed to have been disconnected by the time the appropriate wet stuff reached my neck of the woods.
BAW900 describing a particularly nice drifting circular orbit east of Sevenoaks.
BAW900 describing a particularly nice drifting circular orbit east of Sevenoaks.
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On a train between Cambridge and Bury St E, noticed an LS6 on a cross country on ADSB keeping pace with us a mile or two north and orbiting in the odd thermal. At 3500' perhaps above the cloud base? Astonishingly hard to see, thought the wings would flash in the sun. Finally spotted him at Newmarket, below the cloud.
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Hmm, Reds need to up their formation skills a bit this year... 
A Coningby Typhoon went directly over London in the last hour at 41,000ft and 630kts on it's way back from a sortie at relatively low-levels in the Solent. Any ideas as to what that was about ? Not so often that such aircraft go over the city.
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Grimm 99, E-4B sneaking up the Bristol Channel inbound Mildenhall. Even if it did come my way, weather over London is still pants. And yesterday I was just a couple of miles from Mildenhall. One of these days I WILL catch up with an E-4. Air Force One landed at Belfast a few minutes ago.
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WC-135R Constant Phoenix on approach into Mildenhall...
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This is a recently converted KC-135R - apparently I saw it as a KC-135A somewhere (gap in in the where/when column but prob Mildenhall or Fairford!) back in the day according to my mil file. Yes, a sniffer rather than weather.