Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[bungz]

[Arun_D]

Hawk currently loitering the South East, out of Boscombe Down.

The helicopter also in view is as RAF Augusta Westland 109 from 32 Royal squadron. Wonder who it's ferrying.




Edit*: Looks like it did a touch and go at LGW? The 109 landing there a few mins after.

Edited by Arun_D on Friday 12th February 13:59

[Penrhyn]

Think those Hawks are RoyalNavy trainers the model is T1. Those out of Raf Valley on Anglesey are T2.


Someone on here will know what the difference is.

[Arun_D]

Penrhyn said:

Think those Hawks are RoyalNavy trainers the model is T1. Those out of Raf Valley on Anglesey are T2.


Someone on here will know what the difference is.

Yup, ADS-B reckons T.1. It hotfooted back to Wilts in no time for some manoeuvres. Trainer and student must be having fun on a clear day like today.

[aeropilot]

Arun_D said:

Penrhyn said:

Think those Hawks are RoyalNavy trainers the model is T1. Those out of Raf Valley on Anglesey are T2.


Someone on here will know what the difference is.

Yup, ADS-B reckons T.1. It hotfooted back to Wilts in no time for some manoeuvres. Trainer and student must be having fun on a clear day like today.

The Boscombe Down Hawk T1 isn't Royal Navy, it will be either from the RAF Fast Jet Test Squadron or from the ETPS.

[Arun_D]

This one, according to ADS-B Tracker

[Penrhyn]

New one on me.

Copied from website
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[aeropilot]

Aah, yes, I forgot they have a Hawk now.....

I still think of them having the Hunter T.7 - but that's just showing my age

[swampy442]

chopper602 said:

swampy442 said:

Yep, at Spadeadam, will be here until the end of March

Looks like it operating out of Leeming?

Indeed, the place is like a ghost town now, its crazy!

[RicksAlfas]

Two F-15s flew low over Gargrave, North Yorkshire this afternoon. Any ideas where they came from?

[aeropilot]

RicksAlfas said:

Two F-15s flew low over Gargrave, North Yorkshire this afternoon. Any ideas where they came from?

Almost certainly from RAF Lakenheath.

[towser44]

aeropilot said:

RicksAlfas said:

Two F-15s flew low over Gargrave, North Yorkshire this afternoon. Any ideas where they came from?

Almost certainly from RAF Mildenhall.

Lakenheath?

[The Brummie]

Samaritans Purse DC-8 inbound Prestwick.

[aeropilot]

The Brummie said:

Samaritans Purse DC-8 inbound Prestwick.

One of only a handful left flying....although being re-engine with CFM's as per the USAF KC-135 fleet, so it's sadly no longer a Diesel-8

[Dr Jekyll]

Watched a helicopter, AW139 T7-LSS (that's a San Marino reg apparently) take off from White Waltham, briefly stop at a farm strip near Leighton Buzzard, then fly to Grove in Oxfordshire. I did wonder if it was visiting Williams but as far as I could tell from Flightradar it landed half a mile away.

[aeropilot]

Dr Jekyll said:

Watched a helicopter, AW139 T7-LSS (that's a San Marino reg apparently) take off from White Waltham, briefly stop at a farm strip near Leighton Buzzard, then fly to Grove in Oxfordshire. I did wonder if it was visiting Williams but as far as I could tell from Flightradar it landed half a mile away.

That one flies over my place a lot on its way into White Waltham.

[C70R]

aeropilot said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Watched a helicopter, AW139 T7-LSS (that's a San Marino reg apparently) take off from White Waltham, briefly stop at a farm strip near Leighton Buzzard, then fly to Grove in Oxfordshire. I did wonder if it was visiting Williams but as far as I could tell from Flightradar it landed half a mile away.

That one flies over my place a lot on its way into White Waltham.

Quite often goes over me in SW London too. I've seen it at the JLR proving ground at least once.

Edited by C70R on Tuesday 16th February 07:35

[Total loss]

aeropilot said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Watched a helicopter, AW139 T7-LSS (that's a San Marino reg apparently) take off from White Waltham, briefly stop at a farm strip near Leighton Buzzard, then fly to Grove in Oxfordshire. I did wonder if it was visiting Williams but as far as I could tell from Flightradar it landed half a mile away.

That one flies over my place a lot on its way into White Waltham.

I can't think of his name this minute, but a warbird owner (at least a Spitfire & a Mustang) owns Grove I think, he had the Vampire/Venom put on a pole at the South East corner of the old airfield, he operated his warbirds out of his private airstip, the farm ?

[Mezzanine]

Rudely awoken by this thing going over this morning.

Being half awake, did briefly think I was living in wartime!

[LotusOmega375D]

Yes noisy bugger. The other day I watched a Brad Pitt film about a global pandemic called “World War Z” (for Zombie). He flies in this mysterious cargo plane that launches from a US aircraft carrier and flies around the globe. Depending on which scene you watch it morphs from a real An12 like the above to a CGI C130.