Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
An Airbus A300 Beluga just landed at Chester from Hamburg after doing a wide orbit south of Speke. There seem to have been quite a lot of Beluga movements into Chester during the lockdown.
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Don't think the A400s overnighted, just came in for some circuits this morning.
Qatari Herc A7-MAH just overflew, inbound Stansted I think. Nope, Cambridge.
Qatari Herc A7-MAH just overflew, inbound Stansted I think. Nope, Cambridge.
A BA 747 floated by me last night operating a CPT-LHR sector. It must be one of the few pure paeenger 747's operating at the moment. KLM still seem to be using their Combi steeds to/from South America, but no-one else appears to be doing the passenger 747 thing.
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SpringHeeledJack, KLM's 747-400 Combi is exclusively operating to Asia (freight only). Three aircraft have been brought back into service after a deal was made between the Dutch government, Philips and KLM to create airlift capacity for mostly medical supplies.
The 747's operating to South America are -400 freighters (3xERF and 1xBCF) operated by Martinair.
The 747's operating to South America are -400 freighters (3xERF and 1xBCF) operated by Martinair.
The map of Scotland was interesting, several times in the past month i have looked at the area west of LHR out to almost Bath south to the coast , north to Northampton/Milton Keynes and we seen nothing but a couple of helis in an area that is normally flooded with those' little yellow planes'. These diagrams really sum up the dire situation the airline industry faces.
This is especially true in the Uk since Quarantine has come months too late and what the value is when we are one of the highest infection rate countries in the world where people are only going to visit if it important due tot he high risk of catching something here compared to where they are from.
This is especially true in the Uk since Quarantine has come months too late and what the value is when we are one of the highest infection rate countries in the world where people are only going to visit if it important due tot he high risk of catching something here compared to where they are from.
The map of Scotland was interesting, several times in the past month i have looked at the area west of LHR out to almost Bath south to the coast , north to Northampton/Milton Keynes and we seen nothing but a couple of helis in an area that is normally flooded with those' little yellow planes'. These diagrams really sum up the dire situation the airline industry faces.
This is especially true in the Uk since Quarantine has come months too late and what the value is when we are one of the highest infection rate countries in the world where people are only going to visit if it important due tot he high risk of catching something here compared to where they are from.
This is especially true in the Uk since Quarantine has come months too late and what the value is when we are one of the highest infection rate countries in the world where people are only going to visit if it important due tot he high risk of catching something here compared to where they are from.
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Spitfire G-AVAV airborne from Biggin! 
Wish I could see and hear it, looks like it's already made one trip down to Beachy Head.
Wish I could see and hear it, looks like it's already made one trip down to Beachy Head.
Hungarian C17 out of Papa Air Base now on the ground at Farnborough
The 747's operating to South America are -400 freighters (3xERF and 1xBCF) operated by Martinair.
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A BA 747 floated by me last night operating a CPT-LHR sector. It must be one of the few pure paeenger 747's operating at the moment. KLM still seem to be using their Combi steeds to/from South America, but no-one else appears to be doing the passenger 747 thing.
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U-2 68-10337 westbound across Denmark at 60,000'!
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SpringHeeledJack been watching these flightsall week, BA LHR-CPT since Sunday.
A BA 747 floated by me last night operating a CPT-LHR sector. It must be one of the few pure paeenger 747's operating at the moment. KLM still seem to be using their Combi steeds to/from South America, but no-one else appears to be doing the passenger 747 thing.
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You do get some odd US government aircraft about, I recall seeing a civil Dash 7 flogging across into Europe a few years ago. Can't recall which department operated it.
You do get some odd US government aircraft about, I recall seeing a civil Dash 7 flogging across into Europe a few years ago. Can't recall which department operated it.
Think they surfed a strong tailwind, but do remember hearing that they had the heating off as well to try and save fuel...
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Indeed the BA 747s enroute to Cape town do stand out-I live in Camberley so they pass just east of me making a noise that will sadly be gone forever so I enjoy them while I can . On the subject of BA aircraft the 787 seems to be in its element at the moment as, perhaps surprisingly, are the 777-200s which seem to be the plane of choice for a lot of former 747 USA routes. Be nice to have a Spitfire come my way though, summer time usually brings a lot of low level 'unusuals ' passing west of the large telecom mast at Bagshot to stay outside the London TMA
Indeed the BA 747s enroute to Cape town do stand out-I live in Camberley so they pass just east of me making a noise that will sadly be gone forever so I enjoy them while I can . On the subject of BA aircraft the 787 seems to be in its element at the moment as, perhaps surprisingly, are the 777-200s which seem to be the plane of choice for a lot of former 747 USA routes. Be nice to have a Spitfire come my way though, summer time usually brings a lot of low level 'unusuals ' passing west of the large telecom mast at Bagshot to stay outside the London TMA
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This one was US registered and about 6 or 7 years ago - just looking through a list of survivors, think it must have been the US Department of the Army who seem to have a few. It was up around 18000' heading east towards Dover.
Certainly quite an endurance then!
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.)
Certainly quite an endurance then!
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.)