Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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Speaking of VLJs, saw a rather odd flashing white light just now north of Woking, turned out to be one of those Cirrus Visionjets... not sure I've seen one before. Not that I've really seen one now. Just on a long final into Kidlington. Er, Oxford-London International Airport...
Probaly not that interesting but its been a dull week - there's NATO E-3 currently doing circuits at BZN
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...and another one flying a remarkably neat racetrack at 31000' just north of Albacete...
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Silkway 747 just went over here inbound Heathrow, surprisingly quiet! Normally a sound I can pick out!
Edit: Cathay 747-8 just flew over also inbound Heathrow - that's more like it! Plenty of noise. Saw it while I was walking over Kenley Aerodrome last week, beautiful in the setting sun.
Edit: Cathay 747-8 just flew over also inbound Heathrow - that's more like it! Plenty of noise. Saw it while I was walking over Kenley Aerodrome last week, beautiful in the setting sun.
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Something US military left Cambridge City airport at around 11:15 this morning, it just flew over me but I couldn't see anything through the cloud. No data on ADS-B apart from US and military. It sounded very turbopropy, any ideas?
There have been Skyhawks, ex Luftwaffe Alphajets and now ex Korean AF Hawks playing with the 48th FW at Lakenheath for quite a while now.
Something US military left Cambridge City airport at around 11:15 this morning, it just flew over me but I couldn't see anything through the cloud. No data on ADS-B apart from US and military. It sounded very turbopropy, any ideas?
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USN C-130J departed Cambridge around 11am looks like a test flight, then something with callsign IFC0024 left at 11.15, probably Indian AF C-130J. Now heading across the Channel south of Worthing.
All the Indian AF C-130J appear to be rotating through Marshalls for some significant work. The one that arrived a few days ago was KC3806, this morning's departure was KC3805 which arrived at Cambridge on 7th August last year. I don't know why they use their former US Military hexcodes while over here - they are using their Indian hexcodes at home.
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A400 has been very busy at Sy Mary's this evening, numerous lowish passes along the runways and lots of bimbling around in the vicinity of the Scillies.
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Jack Sweeney: The planespotting student who angers Taylor Swift and Elon Musk - BBC News
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He's doing nothing unlawful, though his site does look extraordinarily similar to ADSBexchange's site......It's an interesting and mostly harmless activity, though if the rich and famous don't want the world to see any hypocritical behaviour, it's a tad too revealing and makes sanctimonious words rather hollow. Wait til someone hooks AI up to the passenger manifests and then see the fur fly ;-)
He's doing nothing unlawful, though his site does look extraordinarily similar to ADSBexchange's site......It's an interesting and mostly harmless activity, though if the rich and famous don't want the world to see any hypocritical behaviour, it's a tad too revealing and makes sanctimonious words rather hollow. Wait til someone hooks AI up to the passenger manifests and then see the fur fly ;-)
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I've often seen Nick Mason pottering around in his Squirrel and Robin both on ADSB and occadionally in the metal/wood/Dacron, but I imagine the breathless World of Fandom has never heard of Nick and would not be interested... it's just us old Prog fans... (might bump into Nick's flying instructor later on today...)
He's doing nothing unlawful, though his site does look extraordinarily similar to ADSBexchange's site......It's an interesting and mostly harmless activity, though if the rich and famous don't want the world to see any hypocritical behaviour, it's a tad too revealing and makes sanctimonious words rather hollow. Wait til someone hooks AI up to the passenger manifests and then see the fur fly ;-)
Somewhere I have a clip of an article from (I think) the Daily Mail when the first Kinetic ADS-B receiver came out, prophesying the end of the world. I'll see it I can find it.
If only the military crew with the SAM at Tehran had been looking at FR24 when the Ukrainian 737 was departing, then that particular disaster would have been avoided.
Regarding following private jets, that has long been done by industrial spies, finding when the corporate jet from a major company heads for the airport close to a potential acquisition company's offices, and tipping off share dealers. Thus such high stakes business trips tend to be done by chartered biz-jets. Of course, the personalities quoted above live for publicity and exposure, and the prestige of owning their own jet, but just cannot bear this to take place in a form that they, or more precisely their high-paid PR consultants, do not have complete control over.
Regarding following private jets, that has long been done by industrial spies, finding when the corporate jet from a major company heads for the airport close to a potential acquisition company's offices, and tipping off share dealers. Thus such high stakes business trips tend to be done by chartered biz-jets. Of course, the personalities quoted above live for publicity and exposure, and the prestige of owning their own jet, but just cannot bear this to take place in a form that they, or more precisely their high-paid PR consultants, do not have complete control over.