Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?

[ICT_SLB]

Might have been a belated 9-11 tribute but the four Nanchangs CJ-6 trainers were back over Belleville, Florida joined by several other rare birds - a Pitts & Stearman/Great Lakes pair, an Enstrom or Brantly helicopter and finally a Cessna foursome (not pictured).


Four Nanchang trainers

Now with smoke!

A Pitts and a Stearman

A rare Enstrom or Brantly helicopter

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by ICT_SLB

A rare Enstrom or Brantly helicopter

It's an Enstrom (around 350 on the US register, compared to about 50 Brantlys).

[TheFrenchConnection]

Agusta Westland AW109 Royal Air Force GZ100 2000 feet 16:15 BST E>W , @ West Bracknell , seem to originate from Sloane Square London area FR24 ? on Battle of Britain Day . Now BST16:36 ~ 3700 feet heading to the west country ie past Basingstoke , Salisbury.

[c52]

Didn't see it, but a 737MAX G-TUMF flew from Malaga to Birmingham at FL180, crossing the Channel at almost the narrowest point. rather than the more conventional Channel Islands-IoW. Are MAXs scared of water AND thin air?

[SpringHeeledJack]

Perhaps a ferry flight from where it might have been stranded after Boeing stopped them flying. That might explain the low-ish level and flightpath.

[treadigraph]

Originally Posted by TheFrenchConnection

Agusta Westland AW109 Royal Air Force GZ100 2000 feet 16:15 BST E>W , @ West Bracknell , seem to originate from Sloane Square London area FR24 ? on Battle of Britain Day . Now BST16:36 ~ 3700 feet heading to the west country ie past Basingstoke , Salisbury.

Maybe took off from Buck House or Wellington Barracks...

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by SpringHeeledJack

Perhaps a ferry flight from where it might have been stranded after Boeing stopped them flying. That might explain the low-ish level and flightpath.

It's been at Tenerife since the grounding began, stopped off at Malaga on its way back to Birmingham yesterday.

[SpringHeeledJack]

Are there any more stranded elsewhere that need to get back to the UK ?

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by SpringHeeledJack

Are there any more stranded elsewhere that need to get back to the UK ?

No, the only Max aircraft on the UK register are the six TUI aircraft, all now at MAN/BHX.

[SpringHeeledJack]

Thanks for the info. What happens now ? Are they to be scrapped, or made airworthy again with some new super-duper software ?

[DaveReidUK]

I'd be very reluctant to try to predict what the future holds for the Max, in European airspace at least.

[treadigraph]

There is a fourship trail of Dutch and Belgian C-130s, something German and a French Atlas assing about at low level to the NW of Eindhoven. Anniversary?

Ah, can now see Spitfire PH-OUQ and B-25 PH-XXV as well...

[spitfirek5054]

Market Garden,possibly?

[spitfirek5054]

The Dutch commemorate it every year.

[treadigraph]

Ah, thanks - hadn't realised it was in September.

[spitfirek5054]

Just ask a British Para

[treadigraph]

Ah, landlord of my former favourite pub is an ex-Para but I no longer drink there - got too damn expensive. Think I might put A Bridge Too Far on...

[spitfirek5054]

Enjoy,think I will go to Oosterbeek War Graves on Monday,and pay my respects

[TheFrenchConnection]

MD Helicopter MD 500 N124PD In dark Blue black W > E out of Blackbushe west Bracknell BST 17:50 1000 feet -
very nice , very fast rotors like the / our Cop Helicopter -
looks like a US Police Helicopter ,
in sunny leafy Berkshire ...TFC

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by TheFrenchConnection

MD Helicopter MD 500 N124PD In dark Blue black W > E out of Blackbushe west Bracknell BST 17:50 1000 feet -
very nice , very fast rotors like the / our Cop Helicopter -
looks like a US Police Helicopter

That's because it was - formerly flew for Policia de Puerto Rico.