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All that jazz said:
PRTVR said:
adsbexchange appears to be picking up More military planes at the moment, two Boeing tc135w out of East Anglia and operating over the North sea, yesterday there was an Australian plane no detail passing up the country, a long way from home.
The Aussie was a new C-27J on delivery from Italy to L-3 Comms in the USA for outfitting.Noticed the AEW circling over North Yorkshire at the same time there was an American Army Intel plane circling on the coast near Redcar before heading north.
PRTVR said:
yesterday noticed 4 American KC135 tanker aircraft setting off together, really curios what they were up to, that's an awful lot of airborne fuel, they headed down across Spain, wondered if they were heading for the Gambia.
3 have just took off from MildenhallEdit: they chasing an E3 it seems.
11:00 heading south over Weymouth
Edited by fullbeem on Thursday 19th January 10:36
Edited by fullbeem on Thursday 19th January 10:56
bristolracer said:
Excuse a newbie question but when these guys are doing Mach speeds are they in a special air corridor ?
I mean if you were mr easyJet you would wet your pants if that tornado shot past you at that speed
Speed for those is calculated by MLATing so is wildly inaccurate - take it with a pinch of salt.I mean if you were mr easyJet you would wet your pants if that tornado shot past you at that speed
bristolracer said:
Excuse a newbie question but when these guys are doing Mach speeds are they in a special air corridor ?
I mean if you were mr easyJet you would wet your pants if that tornado shot past you at that speed
They don't fly supersonic much over land as it has a nasty habit of breaking people's windows. Out at sea there tends to be special military areas set aside for them to practice in, either well above or below the commercial traffic (often in a different area altogether). I've been diverted around these a few times recently when they've been active; mostly up over the North Sea.I mean if you were mr easyJet you would wet your pants if that tornado shot past you at that speed
PRTVR said:
yesterday noticed 4 American KC135 tanker aircraft setting off together, really curios what they were up to, that's an awful lot of airborne fuel, they headed down across Spain, wondered if they were heading for the Gambia.
I wonder ????http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/01/19/b-2-bomber...
Was having a look around the USA on ADS-B exchange the other day and came across a few aircraft that I found interesting the first was a AC130 Stinger gunship, the next was operating out of Las Vegas all with a few RAF aircraft a shadow R1 and tanker aircraft was a Boeing E7A wedetail from Australia, a new one on me, looks an interesting AEW aircraft.
PRTVR said:
Was having a look around the USA on ADS-B exchange the other day and came across a few aircraft that I found interesting the first was a AC130 Stinger gunship, the next was operating out of Las Vegas all with a few RAF aircraft a shadow R1 and tanker aircraft was a Boeing E7A wedetail from Australia, a new one on me, looks an interesting AEW aircraft.
Red Flag is on at moment at Nellis AFB - the RAF tweeted pictures of Typhoons, R1, RC135, the Airbus tanker and the Aussie E7A.NM62 said:
PRTVR said:
Was having a look around the USA on ADS-B exchange the other day and came across a few aircraft that I found interesting the first was a AC130 Stinger gunship, the next was operating out of Las Vegas all with a few RAF aircraft a shadow R1 and tanker aircraft was a Boeing E7A wedetail from Australia, a new one on me, looks an interesting AEW aircraft.
Red Flag is on at moment at Nellis AFB - the RAF tweeted pictures of Typhoons, R1, RC135, the Airbus tanker and the Aussie E7A.
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