Vistor to FAB \EGLF this morning POLISH106 0002 C\N5554 G550 Polish Air Force

Irish Air Corps PC-9 zipped over me earlier - I could hear but not see it, despite a clear sky and some cirrus which I thought might have made it easier to see, but I guess a pretty small spec at about 25000' - an Air France B777 appeared to be below the cirrus at the same time. It seems to be returning home from Zurich or Stans. IAC PC-12 just crossing the Channel on the same route...

RAF P-8 Poseidon now doing circuits at NCL

Something big and noisy just flew overhead me near Abingdon, couldn't see it and nothing on Flightradar24.
Sounded quite low and "proppy" rather then "jetty" maybe towards Oxford?

Added: probably just a Herc heading to Brize actually now I think of it.

Given a rough time and an approximate direction, should be easy enough to ID.

Thursday 17/12 about 21.40hrs.
Flew over Didcot and sounded like heading due North and loud enough to be under 3000' I would say.
Definitely turboprop not jet. and if was a Hercules they don't often fly directly overhead. Usually only stuff inbound to Kidlington go overhead that low heading north.
Will probably turn out to be a bog standard C130 into Brize Norton on a slightly unusual path?
Thanx for any info.

Nice catch !

Royal Danish AF C-130J-30 B-536: https://myneighbourhood.emsbk.com/lh...btrak/50039423

I agree, probably inbound to Brize Norton.

Thanx DaveReid vey interesting! Danish visitor then!

Interesting that the Danish C-130 didn't show up on Flight Tracker last night - I noticed one beating up Spadeadam on a flying visit yesterday as did one earlier in the week as noted by somebody else a page or two back.

The Danish C130 was at Spadeadam three times this week, same route inbound every time, straight across North Sea coast in at Amble.

Yes, that's strange - it was sending almost the full range of ADS-B and EHS parameters (except TAS), so it should have been easily plottable.

Departed Brize about 23:30, heading in a vaguely Danish direction: https://myneighbourhood.emsbk.com/lh...btrak/50039615

Around 6.50am that morning at 1.9 magnitude brightest object in the sky
 

Looking at the brightest satellites that morning I would suggest that this is it :
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9bc810d76b.jpg
Around 6.50am that morning at 1.9 magnitude brightest object in the sky, TFC.

Ah, thanks - could well have been. I notice its a former satellite, which may explain the 'flashing' e.g. resulting from tumbling?

There are some more details on this Breeze Tank here, fascinating ..
 

Space is also fascinating , and normally a lot more expensive than Aviation , there are some more details on this here ;
https://spacenews.com/32825proton-fa...m-upper-stage/
This was another Russian failure unfortunately , they were going through a bit of bad luck at the time, look at the reds[
here , no pun, go to the lower half ;
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briz_(rocket_stage)#Briz-K_and_Briz-KM
Another one to add to the list, this one live ( with fuel ) but safe we are told - perhaps Mr.Telsa, Elon Musk ? saw an opportunity

A Marchetti 260 is currently drawing a Christmas tree south of Douneray in Northern Scotland (13:08)

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c1fbb8abcd.jpg
The finished article

Could at least have put a fairy on top. :O

Swordfish? Firefly?

A very good effort that!

Another U-2 coming home across the North Sea - 80-1083, I recall that batch when they were called TR-1s.

Not much British mil around this week, everybody hibernating for Covid/Christmas?