Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
I remember seeing a Yemeni one passing overhead my Surrey school on delivery back in around 1980 - think it was out of Prestwick and I assumed it had probably stopped in Greenland and/or Iceland but perhaps not! We used to see the odd Twin Otter on delivery too - and if we were lucky a Caribou going the other way (ex Tanzanian AF, probably now at Cape May with all the other might have been turbine conversions... edit: no, scrapped at Shannon.)
Apologies for the thread drift, but am I imagining seeing a Caribou suffer a crash landing at Farnborough some time in the past ?
(Again, apologies for thread drift)
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Originally Posted by SpringHeeledJack
Apologies for the thread drift, but am I imagining seeing a Caribou suffer a crash landing at Farnborough some time in the past ?
I was watching that KC-135 as well, mate in Worthing said it was noisy, the F-15s explain it - cloudy there.
Thanks for that memory jog. I had thought it was in the late 70's!
Not interesting aircraft, but interesting routes during these times through the London TMA. Today it was a Ryanair 737 (what else?) descending over central London at 7,000ft heading into Gatwick from Dublin. I guess with so little traffic direct routing is possible in most cases outside of busy spurts.
Not interesting aircraft, but interesting routes during these times through the London TMA. Today it was a Ryanair 737 (what else?) descending over central London at 7,000ft heading into Gatwick from Dublin. I guess with so little traffic direct routing is possible in most cases outside of busy spurts.
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Long range 737
Boeing 737/800 N737M currently coasting in over Liverpool destination Stanstead after a flight direct from Los Angeles. At 10 hours and 8800 km that must be about the max range of a 737!
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Two seat Spitfire up from Biggin again today; I presume the cockpit configuration may satisfy social distancing requirements so they could do rides.
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737-8 Maximum Range ?? LA - STN ??
Originally Posted by holedriller
Boeing 737/800 N737M currently coasting in over Liverpool destination Stanstead after a flight direct from Los Angeles. At 10 hours and 8800 km that must be about the max range of a 737!
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LA -STN non stop Boeing BBJ2 737 variant
OK thanks 10 DME ARC,
was not aware of that BJ variant - been reading up
[ Less that . 10 posts ] Google " AV Buyer Jets Comparison: Boeing BBJ2 vs Airbus ACJ320 "
BTW interesting reading on max. fuel v payload, on both the the Boeing and Airbus BJ's
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was not aware of that BJ variant - been reading up
[ Less that . 10 posts ] Google " AV Buyer Jets Comparison: Boeing BBJ2 vs Airbus ACJ320 "
BTW interesting reading on max. fuel v payload, on both the the Boeing and Airbus BJ's
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I believe LHR had a couple of notables today which I watched on a Live Stream (Big Jets TV on YouTube- interesting watch whilst we are deprived of the real thing)
First Aeroflot A350 into LHR and longest non stop Dreamliner flight, BA flight from Bali to LHR.
First Aeroflot A350 into LHR and longest non stop Dreamliner flight, BA flight from Bali to LHR.
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Using the normal E-11A Velcro callsign. It didn't stick around for long.
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Noticed on FR24 a Ukrainian Wings B767-300 UR-CSX was in Doncaster (presently showing north of Romania heading SE flight code UWJ). It may have visited a couple of times in the last week.
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Titan Airways 757 G-POWH flying STN-LPA (fuel stop)-ANU to pick up the West Indies cricket team. I’m so glad sport is returning over the next few weeks even if it’s not going to be like it was before.
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A Globe GC-1B, N61PK, 74 years old, just west of Nantes heading NW towards central Brittany. Looks like it departed from the environs of Pau. Where are all these gems coming from ?
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I take things as I find them! 
Think it was a different aircraft to the one that I photographed in April, below - heard this one pass over but claggy here.
Think it was a different aircraft to the one that I photographed in April, below - heard this one pass over but claggy here.
