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Tornado!
They have kept a handful for dropping nuclear weapons.
Cant have them on Eurofighters or something. They have now ordered some F-35s to take over the role.
Not seen any blackhawks close to the border before..
They've been around since February. Check the "History" in the aircraft details.
Any idea what just flew over East Lothian towards Edinburgh and I assume over Scotland to the atlantic? Big multi engined jet at 20,000ft plus escorted by at least 5 fighters and another smaller multi engined jet?
I've seen similar before, I think it's a Stratotanker refuelling plane topping up the fighters.
I just saw them fly overhead and came online to check the websites, but nothing is showing up.
Should be near Perth by now.
Stratotanker popped up again about 5 minutes ago, now about to cross the Minches. Not seen them so clearly over here before, clearly audible and huge contrails.
3 Merlins just flew past my house but interestingly only 1 pops up on the flight tracker
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Interesting Italian Gulfstream G550 doing 8’s around Ludbin at the moment.
3 Merlins just flew past my house but interestingly only 1 pops up on the flight tracker
That seems to be fairly normal. only the lead will switch it on.
two apache a couple of weeks back, clearly drawing a cock and balls... but only one side of the shaft shows on flightradar 🙁
Pair of C-130s out of Brize Norton, did a loop over the sea south of Edinburgh.
https://www.flightradar24.com/OMEN1/2b678394
These have been recorded flying into Serbia, six Chinese Y-20 military transport aircraft, worth keeping an eye open for more flights.
Spies Diplomats being sent home?
Yes that checks out
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1513554452606763012?s=20&t=-_SJTYC7M8YgrN1NAaAQkw
RAF RC-135 on its way back home after a jaunt across to Moldova, I like the way it very neatly followed the borders south…
Not military as such, but nobody knows what it was doing, especially considering it’s country of origin;
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being followed by a couple of F15s, any guesses what it is?
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I would assume another F-15 or maybe a F-35.
3 x F15's getting ready to do the Mach Loop I reckon 😉
For anyone interested FORTE10 has its own redit page.
Global hawk that's currently parked over the black sea.
Lancaster heading east just south of RAF Benson, did a few turns over north east bristol earlier.
I'm currently watching (both out of the window and via marinetraffic.com) a SAR helicopter in the area of the Lairig Ghru. Unlikely to be an exercise, I just hope it's not bad news.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-3.699/centery:57.104/zoom:12
From that article above, Zhukovsky Airport is a bit of a Soviet era plane graveyard
Embrace your inner geek here: @55.570461,38.157936,75m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-GB">Tu-144
Buran - 55.57121272401071, 38.14295161303361
Closure on last night's callout.
https://twitter.com/cairngorm_mrt/status/1521434119896551424?t=QCDo_41MY_ilUg56itUGwA&s=19
55.571190, 38.143210
Is that the Russian space shuttle I thought there was only one left and it was falling to bits in a hanger?
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Is that the Russian space shuttle I thought there was only one left and it was falling to bits in a hanger?
It does look like it.
If you go directly east from that pin, you also get to what look like Concordski (the Tupolev TU-144).
55.570507, 38.157739
There's some cool looking stuff in amongst that lot.
Any idea what this is? It looks like an AWACS of some type..
Not been to that airfield.
One I went to in about 1995 was Monino Airfield Museum. Was a Buran spaceplane very early protoype there iirc.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Central+Air+Force+Museum/ @55.8333839,38.1821707,725m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x414ad1ab79d279a7:0xda2069124df8f6e6!2sMonino,+Moscow+Oblast,+Russia!3b1!8m2!3d55.8426843!4d38.1871216!3m4!1s0x414ad04c4511e6d9:0xa3aadf566b4a7f8!8m2!3d55.8328848!4d38.182853
The other one I went to was near Samara, which did have a (kinda) airworthy Tu144. I got a guided tour in it, with students from the local Uni doing lab work or something. It was all powered up on aux power.
I hope those links work.
Links work.
I've just been looking at the Google review photos that's a huge amount of "stuff" world's biggest hele ect. there is enough titanium to keep bike builders going forevermore.
You could park a ti fighter in that display and it would just fit right in.
I'm not sure if communism made Russian military go that way out of need or fantastic engineering but they knew how to build funky planes
Some info here about the Jubilee Flypast in June and there's a rehearsal for it at the end of May as well:
https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/press22/platinumjubileeflypast2022.htm
There’s an Italian Global Hawk up at 54,000 ft, it’s track first showed over Souther Greece, it’s flown over Romania and is now heading into Hungary. I wonder what it’s keeping an eye on…?
I was reading earlier that there’s been a modification made available for the Reaper armed drones giving them folding wings and tail, and an STOL capability, allowing their use from big flat-tops and other short runways.
This now gives navy and marine operations a long endurance facility for anti-shipping and submarine observation and offence. They could easily operate from our new carriers as well.
Had a V-22 Osprey fly over me the other day. Very strange looking thing that is.
14 Typhoons just heading out East across the North Sea 😯
Should be quite a few milling about ready for the Jubilee flyover.
Think this is one:
GHHII https://fr24.com/GHHII/2c167400
There's loads out there - the Lancaster is circuiting Stowmarket at the moment.
Hercules and an A400M out over the North Sea just off Norfolk.
A few years ago there was an amazing video showing the orbiting patterns of all the aircraft required to get them in exact order over the palace - wonder if I can find it now?
2 chinooks, 7 Apache's and 4 large 'copters which I don't know just flew over North London in 3 x diamond formation.
Great noise.
Edit, 2 of those - a Lynx & a wildcat can be seen on FR24. Now dropped off near Stapleford Airport.
A few years ago there was an amazing video showing the orbiting patterns of all the aircraft required to get them in exact order over the palace – wonder if I can find it now?
If you cant find that, there's an amazing one doing the same for the start of the first Gulf War - probably a slightly different scale though
Well, stap me! That Lanc must have flown practically over my head earlier while I was out with the dogs between Bridgnorth and Shifnal, and I never noticed it. That's what you get for wearing headphones...
Caught the Lancaster in Stowmarket, very low doing circuits over the town, which coincided with the street carnival parade, not sure if that was intended, but bloody marvelous moment.
Watching it Bank hard so low gave me goose bumps, beautiful aircraft.
Yes it’s fairly local, think it’s something to do with Severn Valley Railway
You sure? Lynx is retired.
Edit, 2 of those – a Lynx & a wildcat can be seen on FR24. Now dropped off near Stapleford Airport.
Red arrows en route to Bournemouth for anyone in the area or on the route
Something fairly fast and loud flew over yesterday, but by the time I got outside to see what it was it was too far away. Checked on ADS-B, and all it showed was it’s call-sign, NICKEL61, and nothing else. It seems to have originated somewhere in the Med, to the East of Italy.
While I’m here, it’s worth pointing out that it’s the RIAT at Fairford this weekend, so lots and lots of interesting stuff flying around, biggest crowd they’ve ever had as well, completely sold out in advance. This Spitfire was flying around a short time ago…
NICKEL61 was a USAF F16 flying out of Aviano, Italy.
Never had a YAK 52 fly over the house before today.
It’s heading back to Popham now. Last time I was at Popham was when I went to a rave in about 1990😄
I saw that Yak whist i was out Windsurfing this afternoon.
Couldn't identify it from the profile, thought it was a Grunman Avenger with the very square wing profile
Not military but something that woke me up in the middle of the night, literally going round in circles. Tracking the registration number it is some sort of calibration flight (what ever that actually entails).
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-tacn#2ceb0b69
May well be related to this kit
Not military but something that woke me up in the middle of the night, literally going round in circles. Tracking the registration number it is some sort of calibration flight (what ever that actually entails).
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-tacn#2ceb0b69
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Only one UK military flight showing up at the moment - a Red Arrow. A few minutes ago, there was only PZ865.
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BBMF Spitfire currently buzzing around Belper area in Derbyshire, I expect the rest of BBMF will be due at Blackpool Air Show.
Edit: Lancaster PA474 currently crossing Cheshire
Anyone in Liverpool looks like the Lanc is about to fly down the mersey. 5 mins or so.
Ah, maybe not. It's doing M6 north.
There's a couple b52s back at Fairford to keep an eye out for. I've not seen them on the tracker yet
There's currently an Israeli C-130 Hercules crossing Southern Scotland.
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Two of the B52s left Fairford about 6.30 this morning - quite a sound to get woken up by. They don't usually pop up on ADS-B
By the sounds of it, 1 or 2 more are leaving now (10ish)
The BUFF’s are doing a ‘show the colours’ flight over parts of Europe:
- Skopje, North Macedonia 2:35-2:45 p.m.
- Tirana, Albania 2:50- 3:00 p.m.
- Coast of Montenegro 3:05-3:15 p.m.
- Dubrovnik, Croatia 3:10-3:20 p.m.
Only one is showing up on ADS-B, it’s just left Bosnia-Hertzegovina’s airspace heading roughly NNW, callsign SPLTR24.
There are four at Fairford at the moment:
- 60-0023
- 60-0005
- 60-0034
- 60-0026
60-0034, ‘Wise Guy’, is one of only two that have been removed from the Boneyard and brought back into service, the other is 60-0007, ‘Ghost Rider’
Just had a C130 over Salford out of Brize.
This is the nose art for 60-0005, one of the two over Hungary at the moment…
Incidentally, does anyone know anything about an aircraft like a C-130 with *eight* engines? We were driving back from Thetford last Friday and something the size of a C-130 flew over us, pretty much silently (although we had the car windows closed), coming in to land at Mildenhall I assume.
I didn't get a lot of chance to look at it, although was surprised I hadn't heard it, but it had the standard two engines per wing, with what looked like an extra two slightly smaller engines per wing as well, possibly mounted above the wing.
Could have been a MC-130 Commando? USAF have a special forces air wing there.
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C130 with wing tanks most likely. Plenty flying around the UK from the USAF.
Incidentally, does anyone know anything about an aircraft like a C-130 with *eight* engines?
Reminded me of the story (possibly apocryphal / internet myth) that crops up sometimes with B52's when a fighter pilot in his single-engine F16 requested a priority approach and landing due to his engine running rough.
ATC advised him that he was second in line behind a B52 approaching with one engine out to which the fighter pilot replied:
"ah, the dreaded 7-engine approach..."
Re whatever you saw, I'd guess at MC-130 as well, they do look weird:
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The Donna Nook range area must be loud at the moment - this boy's doing circuits at 300kts around 1500ft altitude
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B52 coming back in to land now
Thanks @relapsed_mandalorian et al, that looks like the badger. I'm impressed by how quiet it was, maybe practicing some sort of glide landing...
Could be, I guess. But some of the loops were longish and straight and low, as if lining up on a target. Wouldn't you do g-loc training at altitude to give you a bit of time to come round if blacked out?
(I am not a fast jet pilot, obviously)
I’m impressed by how quiet it was, maybe practicing some sort of glide landing…
The latest iteration of the C-130 uses eight-bladed props, which are significantly quieter than the old four-blade ones. I think there are still some old C-130’s about, possibly flying with smaller countries transport wings, but I’m pretty sure that all of the ones the RAF fly are now the current model, as are USAF planes.
Anyone else running their own ads-b tracker ?
Coupled a Raspberry Pi with a £25 receiver and am using a biscuit tin as an antenna backplate.
Just 67mm tall and currently sitting in the roof of the shed, it can pick up aircraft from far south of Glasgow, across the Clyde and to Fort William.
Next: a 200m aerial in the garden .... 🙂
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My MLAT feeder name is: HMP_Cornton 😉