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JACK BATSON 7th Aug 2022 15:23

BA 747's
 
Don't know if I am going mad or not, but I think that have just seen two BA 747 within 10mins. of each other flying fairly low both heading north. I thought that they were no longer in service / scrapped.
To be honest they looked absolutely beautiful.

Locked door 7th Aug 2022 16:36

Exactly how low were they?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.man...n-24560145.amp

wiggy 7th Aug 2022 16:38

Not sure what's happened to all the hulls but as far as I can tell there are no likely candidates on the usual ADS tracking sites.

DaveReidUK 7th Aug 2022 16:57

Aeromodellers meet ?

bigal1941 7th Aug 2022 18:06

I saw it as well around 1900-1930 yesterday (Saturday) tracking westward at around 10000ft north of the M4. Thought the tail was painted solid red rather than the stripes. Piqued my interest.

Regards Alan

treadigraph 7th Aug 2022 18:07

Where did you see them and what time?

JACK BATSON 7th Aug 2022 18:17


Originally Posted by treadigraph (Post 11274601)
Where did you see them and what time?

Yes I would say approximately 10,000ft passing just east of Aylesbury at around 15:45 the first one. Sounding good, looking good, definitely BA colours, very clear through the binoculars.

Tay Cough 7th Aug 2022 18:31

Whoever they were, they weren’t BA. Guaranteed.

treadigraph 7th Aug 2022 19:04


Originally Posted by bigal1941 (Post 11274600)
I saw it as well around 1900-1930 yesterday (Saturday) tracking westward at around 10000ft north of the M4. Thought the tail was painted solid red rather than the stripes. Piqued my interest.

Regards Alan

There was a BA A380 outbound Heathrow around that time, around 10000' abeam Newbury at 1911. Can't see anything else.

treadigraph 7th Aug 2022 19:11


Originally Posted by JACK BATSON (Post 11274606)
Yes I would say approximately 10,000ft passing just east of Aylesbury at around 15:45 the first one. Sounding good, looking good, definitely BA colours, very clear through the binoculars.

Jack, all I can see today around that time were a pair of BA 787s heading up towards Pole Hill, followed by various other 787s.

Confusious 7th Aug 2022 19:14


Originally Posted by Locked door (Post 11274565)

Locked door, brilliant! 🤣

Wireless 7th Aug 2022 19:47

Sure it wasn’t ACT 747 freighters? They have red tails.

Wee Clink 7th Aug 2022 21:41


Originally Posted by treadigraph (Post 11274627)
Jack, all I can see today around that time were a pair of BA 787s heading up towards Pole Hill, followed by various other 787s.

About 15 mins earlier at 15:27 BST a BA A380 ex LHR passed East of Aylesbury Northbound at 9,000 ft followed 2 mins later by another at 12,000 ft …..

DaveReidUK 7th Aug 2022 22:08

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ef2b81dcbc.jpg

aeromech3 8th Aug 2022 11:17

I was out walking the dog about that time near Frimley Green and looked up at what I at the time thought was a B747, underside spacing and size of engines appeared more akin than A380!

BRISTOLRE 4th Sep 2022 19:22

my money is on BA A380s however those Silkway B744Fs could be deceiving dark blue, grey and some red on the logos, a lot of these into EMA and STN in recent weeks (EMA every Thurs & Fri pm arrive tea time ish)


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