Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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USAF A-29 Super Tucano en route Prestwick towards the South Coast, presently abeam Liverpool...
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Me neither. Not sure I'd have seen them even if they'd gone right over the top, two separate formations of the Swiss AF PC-7 team went over here somewhere up in the airways last year, think I saw just one glinting!
The Boscombe circuit-basher was Qinetiq's RJ70, which has had a dodgy transponder for the last year or so.
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Not sure how many of those BIKx and BMRx 752 airframes are still flying with DHL, as you mention this one, a lot were scrapped
All the ex-BA BIKx 757s have been scrapped. Of the BMRx examples, A/B/D/J have been noted at Heathrow this year, along with several of the DHKx ones.
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Sitting in the garden at the Crown in Horsell this evening, great to see a couple of Gulfstreams. Wish they'd been IIs or IIIs though. Great pub...
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Flew weekly on business, on this route on a weekly basis , getting on for a hundred times. They just looked great from the air bridge after the lounge.
Back in time in the 80's when they were first introduced @ LHR - BA . They looked sooo cool . Take offs seemed faster and higher ( FPMinute ) than other types
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Just saw ( BST 1.20pm ish ) a nice newish, Robinson 44 II in like a British racing green , emerald green over Bracknell approx 1500 feet.
Checked the routing / sector , unusual ;... Belfast > Gatwick ? ( ~ 520 km , 281 nautical miles ? as the crow flies ) on a N - plate
Copied details from F24 but lost them, as sometime else came up. Then transponder off @ Gatwick
Checked the routing / sector , unusual ;... Belfast > Gatwick ? ( ~ 520 km , 281 nautical miles ? as the crow flies ) on a N - plate
Copied details from F24 but lost them, as sometime else came up. Then transponder off @ Gatwick
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It was Robinson R66 N166MG, went into Redhill. On its way home again.
I went down to Orange County airport, Montgomery, NY yesterday to volunteer during set up of this weekend's New York Air Show, and was astounded to see this rather forlorn Beagle 206. No visible registration markings unfortunately. I don't think I've seen one of these in 45 years.
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It's N46880 - I think one of several I recall seeing at Biggin on my first visit in June 75...