Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
A Qatar C-130J just went over London very audibly (24,000ft) out of Cambridge by the looks of it.
So DRUK, how the hector does an A109 with a US reg show up as a Philippine registered fixed-wing aircraft ? Hex error, or a red-herring to put of the amateurs ?
And, speaking of helicopters, the mis-reported "Philippine Cessna 182" (here on PlaneFinder) was actually the ubiquitous Agusta A109S N449C, which made a brief visit to Elstree this morning, arriving from and departing to the northwest.
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The PF track also shows it arriving and departing Elstree without going anywhere near the runway.
I'll confess its identification was made easier as it was using its registration as its callsign.
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Cherokee G-WOLF operates out of Elstree (?) and often displays the i/d of some foreign military helicopter (I think) - suspect it's finger trouble rather than obfuscation...
It looks like a popular strategy is to get the first hex digit correct and hope the rest will look after themselves.
Thankyou for the explanation. I thought that perhaps if an aircraft is a regular to/from Elstree that the owner/occupants might be in the film industry and want to keep a low profile or some such.
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Probably Ian Beale from Eastenders... 
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U-2S 68-10337 airborne from Fairford and heading NE over Coventry, 40,700' and climbing...
Wish the Blackbirds were still about...
Wish the Blackbirds were still about...
Sadly only Scotland will get to see the contrail in the UK today...
edit...or maybe not, but it might be canny in Newcastle for a view in 20minutes ;-)
edit...or maybe not, but it might be canny in Newcastle for a view in 20minutes ;-)
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Jack The Antonov is just north of the IOM on a heading for Geordieland (ADB329F)
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An A400 RAF just gone over London west to east at 32,000ft and it was so loud that the window (slightly open) started reverberating ;-)
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It drowned out the bickering kids next door... bliss!
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Cherokee G-WOLF reminds me of Gregory Air Taxi livery 60's
vaguely remember seeing these GAT types at Blackbushe as a child .
There is a brilliant bit of film of GAT's in one of the great aviation DVD's , Look at Life in glorious colour.
Off on a tangent - TFC
In the midst of a quiet Camberley afternoon a quite loud inbound aircraft noise prompted me to pop outside to see a w/b twin disappearing behind the trees as it turned onto base leg for LHR easterlies. Checked it out on FR24 and the origin of the 767-300 was given as Luanda Angola , just ahead of it and on final approach was another 767 of Air Rwanda from Brussels . What we could be importing from Luanda except dirty money I cannot imagine. one would almost have to go back to the 60s to see the number of unusual airlines at todays slot constrained LHR where there is barely room for anything not already scheduled.
In the midst of a quiet Camberley afternoon a quite loud inbound aircraft noise prompted me to pop outside to see a w/b twin disappearing behind the trees as it turned onto base leg for LHR easterlies. Checked it out on FR24 and the origin of the 767-300 was given as Luanda Angola , just ahead of it and on final approach was another 767 of Air Rwanda from Brussels . What we could be importing from Luanda except dirty money I cannot imagine. one would almost have to go back to the 60s to see the number of unusual airlines at todays slot constrained LHR where there is barely room for anything not already scheduled.
The arrival from Luanda was the same EuroAtlantic Airways B763 that flew out to Angola from LHR late on Wednesday evening.
I'm mystified by the other arrival you noted just before the above. There's a weekly Rwandair on Fridays, but that's an A330 and it arrives non-stop from Kigali (plus it landed more than 4 hours earlier, just after midday). I wonder what it was that you saw?
