Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
Rare bird, in these parts. 4K-AZ101 Silk Way IL 76 Tamanrasset to Leipzig just passed east of here routeing along French Coast towards Portsmouth. Lovely sight ! Bit of a detour, though !
It was inbound Dave, came overhead me via Biggin. Delicacies for the Sheik's London abode then! 747s do tend to be noisy but I kind of thought the -8 would be a bit quieter. Think that is the first I've seen from relatively close quarters, otherwise they have been dots at the end of a trail!
Rare bird, in these parts. 4K-AZ101 Silk Way IL 76 Tamanrasset to Leipzig just passed east of here routeing along French Coast towards Portsmouth. Lovely sight ! Bit of a detour, though !
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Bloody hell! Must have picked a heck of a lot of lower denomination shrappers then!
Looks like it was back on the ground at Lasham again a couple of hours later.
Notwithstanding what FR24 and FlightAware show, it's not a B722 but an R722 (Super 27). Wears a very nice blue/white scheme.
Notwithstanding what FR24 and FlightAware show, it's not a B722 but an R722 (Super 27). Wears a very nice blue/white scheme.
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This was some time ago, but one of the coolest sightings I've had. Back in Las Vegas (which is fairly close to Nellis) I was able to spot what I thought was a B-2 flying relatively close to the ground. Was a little unnerved by it honestly, but looking back it's one of the coolest planes I've seen.
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Boeing 727-200 M-STAR out of Lasham and doing circuits at Cardiff and Exeter this afternoon was nice.
This was some time ago, but one of the coolest sightings I've had. Back in Las Vegas (which is fairly close to Nellis) I was able to spot what I thought was a B-2 flying relatively close to the ground. Was a little unnerved by it honestly, but looking back it's one of the coolest planes I've seen.
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Some background here: RAF drone lands at Moray base for exercise
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I ttook a tour of Alaska a few years ago. As the bus approached Fairbanks we passed Eilson AFB and I spotted a B-2 in the air. Lot's of signs saying no stopping or photographs so the driver slowed to a crawl as the aircraft landed. In the end two landed, a third already on the ground. The passengers were nearly all USAians and despite all the signs they were all taking phitos like mad!
Yesterday (13th) morning around 09:00 - something noisy (multi-jet) heading north and climbing over Cheltenham, probably out of Brize Norton/Fairford. It was too cloudy to see and nothing was showing on FR24, but given the prolonged volume I guessed B52(s). A local Facebook page later indicated that they were B1B Lancers, which returned later in the morning while I was elsewhere.
It sounded like they went over again this morning around 08:10, but again it was too cloudy to eyeball them.
It sounded like they went over again this morning around 08:10, but again it was too cloudy to eyeball them.
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Miss you! as dear old Uncle Roger used to say...
Shadow and P-8 doing opposing orbit thingies a couple of thousand feet vertically apart around Weymouth Bay...
Shadow and P-8 doing opposing orbit thingies a couple of thousand feet vertically apart around Weymouth Bay...
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11.44 BST just over Bracknell Reg.: G-EMHN United Kingdom DB flags:none Type: A109 Agusta AW.109 S Type Desc.H2T Squawk: 7036 , 900 feet very nice W>E looks like its going into Battersea via the normal Thorpe/Chertsey/Shepperton waypoint. Lot of Heli traffic this last month or two, ( and props ) lucky to be two miles from Bagshot Tower so on the egde / corner of London CTR. I must be just slightly west of the pink dots, bottom right here London CTR EGLL Heli map TFC.
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The 'Scots' are having a moan about this here :-( SKYGUARDIAN
https://www.airforce-technology.com/...af-waddington/ TFC.
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Jordan Aviation A330 just departed Heathrow - new outfit to me! JY-JVB, ex KLM originally.