Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[MarkwG]

yellowjack said:

Couldn't find it on FR, but I swear I saw a Harvard (or another member of that NA family of trainers) coming over my house in Bournemouth last evening. It looked to be on a line from the Isle Of Wight to the western end of the runway at Hurn. Straight. level, and 'throatier' than the average modern aeroplane, but no "buzz saw" propeller noise.

I did suspect that the engine was smaller than that of a Harvard but the silhouette was familiar and it was all-over silver with a definite 'Star and Bar' under the right wing.

Yak 52 maybe?

[hairy vx220]

[LotusOmega375D]

Keep up at the back. That was posted 3 pages ago.

[CharlieH89]

Does anybody have any info in regards to this aircraft? Tried looking on ads-b exchange but it brought nothing up. Not often you see it with no information.

[Lemming Train]

If it was just after 6pm, G-MDSI a new PC12 for Ravenair which delivered earlier today from the factory.

Went out on 2nd run 6.45 to 7.15.

Edited by Lemming Train on Thursday 30th July 20:30

[tedmus]

Lemming Train said:

If it was just after 6pm, G-MDSI a new PC12 for Ravenair which delivered earlier today from the factory.

https://derbosoft.proboards.com/post/171646/thread

[CharlieH89]

Lemming Train said:

If it was just after 6pm, G-MDSI a new PC12 for Ravenair which delivered earlier today from the factory.

Went out on 2nd run 6.45 to 7.15.

Edited by Lemming Train on Thursday 30th July 20:30

tedmus said:

https://derbosoft.proboards.com/post/171646/thread

Thank you for the information and the link.
I find it more and more often I am grabbing my phone and seeing what is flying overhead. I live on the flight path inbound for Liverpool airport and also Manchester airport (they're a bit higher obviously)

Keep missing the RAF planes due to cloud coverage though.

[Lemming Train]

CharlieH89 said:

Thank you for the information and the link.
I find it more and more often I am grabbing my phone and seeing what is flying overhead. I live on the flight path inbound for Liverpool airport and also Manchester airport (they're a bit higher obviously)

Keep missing the RAF planes due to cloud coverage though.

I'm not sure if it's visible on the free accounts on FR24 but if you click on a plane and look down the left panel to 'data source - ads-b' you should see the ICAO24 bit hex address there. If you put that with your queries then they are easily identified. Note that mil and biz on FR are mostly blocked by default so will show 'n/a' there, so you have to look on other trackers like ADSBexchange (tar1090) (clicking on a plane will put the hex code in the URL bar).

ADSBx coverage isn't as good as FR24 so you may see something on FR24 that you can't ID so go to ADSBx, but it doesn't show there at all. That's usually because it's low level and not being picked up by any ADSBx feeders in your immediate vicinity. You can fix that by buying a cheap dongle and feeding to ADSBx for your area to improve coverage. Any readers here from Lincs, East Anglia and N Yorks that aren't already feeding to ADSBx should do so as the mil from all the air bases in those parts would be far better tracked without bitty and jagged tracks due to the current gaps in the coverage from feeders.

Edited by Lemming Train on Friday 31st July 01:34

Edited by Lemming Train on Friday 31st July 01:35

[bluey1905]

yellowjack said:

Couldn't find it on FR, but I swear I saw a Harvard (or another member of that NA family of trainers) coming over my house in Bournemouth last evening. It looked to be on a line from the Isle Of Wight to the western end of the runway at Hurn. Straight. level, and 'throatier' than the average modern aeroplane, but no "buzz saw" propeller noise.

I did suspect that the engine was smaller than that of a Harvard but the silhouette was familiar and it was all-over silver with a definite 'Star and Bar' under the right wing.

Possibly this one,
https://comptonabbasairfield.co.uk/product/the-har...

I live in Blandford, and Compton Abbas is pretty near, we get it over here quite regularly (not at the moment obviously).
It really does have a lovely sound and I always have a look up when I hear it coming.

[Trevatanus]

Might be visual overhead of the UK in a bit.
AN225 En-route to Bangor.


Also, just heard it's doing Prestwick to France on Sunday, so another chance then if this does not pan out.

Edited by Trevatanus on Friday 31st July 09:33

[saaby93]

M-RBIG Country: United Kingdom Type code: LJ45
who owns that?

[djc206]

saaby93 said:

M-RBIG Country: United Kingdom Type code: LJ45
who owns that?

I don’t know but I’m going to guess he has a number plate starting with BO55

[i4got]

Anyone tracking the NHS Spitfire today?

The full flight plan
Exact timings of the NHS Spitfire on August 1
11am: Duxford Airfield - takeoff
11.15am: Southend University Hospital
11.25am: Kent and Canterbury Hospital
11.30am: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital - Margate
11.37am: Buckland Hospital - Dover
11.42am: Royal Victoria Hospital - Folkstone
11.46am: William Harvey Hospital - Ashford
11.55am: Conquest Hospital - Hastings

12pm: Bexhill Hospital
12.05pm: Eastbourne District General Hospital
12.10pm: Brighton General & Royal Sussex County Hospital
12.18pm: Worthing Hospital
12.25pm: Goodwood Aerodrome - land
3pm: Goodwood Aereodrome - takeoff
3.05pm: Queen Alexandra Hospital - Portsmouth
3.10pm: St Mary's Hospital - Newport, Isle of Wight
3.20pm: Poole Hospital
3.25pm: Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals
3.32pm: University Hospital Southampton
3.42pm: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital
3.47pm: Frimley Park Hospital
3.51pm: Royal Berkshire Hospital - Reading
4pm: Amersham Hospital
4.08pm: Oxford University Hospitals
4.15pm: Watford General Hospital
4.30pm: Duxford Airfield - land

[Lemming Train]

saaby93 said:

M-RBIG Country: United Kingdom Type code: LJ45
who owns that?

Operated by Volantair which has connections with Neptune Group, a property company.

[aeropilot]

i4got said:

Anyone tracking the NHS Spitfire today?

The full flight plan
Exact timings of the NHS Spitfire on August 1
11am: Duxford Airfield - takeoff
11.15am: Southend University Hospital
11.25am: Kent and Canterbury Hospital
11.30am: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital - Margate
11.37am: Buckland Hospital - Dover
11.42am: Royal Victoria Hospital - Folkstone
11.46am: William Harvey Hospital - Ashford
11.55am: Conquest Hospital - Hastings

12pm: Bexhill Hospital
12.05pm: Eastbourne District General Hospital
12.10pm: Brighton General & Royal Sussex County Hospital
12.18pm: Worthing Hospital
12.25pm: Goodwood Aerodrome - land
3pm: Goodwood Aereodrome - takeoff
3.05pm: Queen Alexandra Hospital - Portsmouth
3.10pm: St Mary's Hospital - Newport, Isle of Wight
3.20pm: Poole Hospital
3.25pm: Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals
3.32pm: University Hospital Southampton
3.42pm: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital
3.47pm: Frimley Park Hospital
3.51pm: Royal Berkshire Hospital - Reading
4pm: Amersham Hospital
4.08pm: Oxford University Hospitals
4.15pm: Watford General Hospital
4.30pm: Duxford Airfield - land

Its a bit late now, but you should have mentioned those timings are GMT, not BST

I could sight of it and heard it, as it was transiting between Frimley Park and Royal Berks, as I was fence painting in the garden.

[benjipeg]

there is an antanov flying into scotland from bangor maine tomorrow, due to land 2.30pm.
also there are new coastguard drones that have been flying out of caernarfon airport as far as barmouth and llandudno

[lost in espace]

benjipeg said:

there is an antanov flying into scotland from bangor maine tomorrow, due to land 2.30pm.
also there are new coastguard drones that have been flying out of caernarfon airport as far as barmouth and llandudno

I am pretty sure BigJetTV is livestreaming the Antanov. 9/10 PH'ers prefer the volume down though.

[yellowjack]

bluey1905 said:

yellowjack said:

Couldn't find it on FR, but I swear I saw a Harvard (or another member of that NA family of trainers) coming over my house in Bournemouth last evening. It looked to be on a line from the Isle Of Wight to the western end of the runway at Hurn. Straight. level, and 'throatier' than the average modern aeroplane, but no "buzz saw" propeller noise.

I did suspect that the engine was smaller than that of a Harvard but the silhouette was familiar and it was all-over silver with a definite 'Star and Bar' under the right wing.

Possibly this one,
https://comptonabbasairfield.co.uk/product/the-har...

I live in Blandford, and Compton Abbas is pretty near, we get it over here quite regularly (not at the moment obviously).
It really does have a lovely sound and I always have a look up when I hear it coming.

That's almost certainly the right one. Cheers! The direction it was flying is spot on for Compton Abbas too. I found it's full history on this site... https://www.t6harvard.com/uk-harvards/g-dhhf/ ...including wartime service with both the USAAF and US Navy.

[yellowjack]

aeropilot said:

i4got said:

Anyone tracking the NHS Spitfire today?

The full flight plan
Exact timings of the NHS Spitfire on August 1
11am: Duxford Airfield - takeoff
11.15am: Southend University Hospital
11.25am: Kent and Canterbury Hospital
11.30am: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital - Margate
11.37am: Buckland Hospital - Dover
11.42am: Royal Victoria Hospital - Folkstone
11.46am: William Harvey Hospital - Ashford
11.55am: Conquest Hospital - Hastings

12pm: Bexhill Hospital
12.05pm: Eastbourne District General Hospital
12.10pm: Brighton General & Royal Sussex County Hospital
12.18pm: Worthing Hospital
12.25pm: Goodwood Aerodrome - land
3pm: Goodwood Aereodrome - takeoff
3.05pm: Queen Alexandra Hospital - Portsmouth
3.10pm: St Mary's Hospital - Newport, Isle of Wight
3.20pm: Poole Hospital
3.25pm: Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals
3.32pm: University Hospital Southampton
3.42pm: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital
3.47pm: Frimley Park Hospital
3.51pm: Royal Berkshire Hospital - Reading
4pm: Amersham Hospital
4.08pm: Oxford University Hospitals
4.15pm: Watford General Hospital
4.30pm: Duxford Airfield - land

Its a bit late now, but you should have mentioned those timings are GMT, not BST

I could sight of it and heard it, as it was transiting between Frimley Park and Royal Berks, as I was fence painting in the garden.

Snap! Well, almost. I was painting a summerhouse for my wife when the beast came right over my house. That must have been a freebie to wake everyone up, because then it did another circuit including a little waggle of the wings to show off the "Thank U NHS" on the underside. We live very close to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

The aircraft is John Romain's (PropShop) G-PRXI, appropriately a WW2 veteran Photo Reconassaince Spitfire serial PR 983... https://vintageaviationecho.com/spitfire-prxi-pl98...

[Lemming Train]

lost in espace said:

benjipeg said:

there is an antanov flying into scotland from bangor maine tomorrow, due to land 2.30pm.
also there are new coastguard drones that have been flying out of caernarfon airport as far as barmouth and llandudno

I am pretty sure BigJetTV is livestreaming the Antanov. 9/10 PH'ers prefer the volume down though.

A225 has just filed. ADB3473 due in Prestwick at 1413z (3.13pm local). The callsign indicates it's loaded. Due to leave Bangor at 08z (9am our time).