Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[Killer2005]

Thanks to Bonefish Blues for sharing this thread on an F1 topic.

Cool thread, I can spend ages on FlightRadar watching what's about. I live in Huddersfield and under the flight path for Manchester, Leeds Bradford, and Liverpool so have plenty to follow.

[Petrus1983]

Killer2005 said:

Thanks to Bonefish Blues for sharing this thread on an F1 topic.

Cool thread, I can spend ages on FlightRadar watching what's about. I live in Huddersfield and under the flight path for Manchester, Leeds Bradford, and Liverpool so have plenty to follow.

I hadn't realised what a big hub Manchester had become until recently. -even just taking a peek at FR a moment ago to see the inbound/outbound flights in the air at the moment shows it really is a full on international airport.

[DannyScene]

There seems to be loads of Typhoons and Hawks over the East coast atm

[Scabutz]

DannyScene said:

There seems to be loads of Typhoons and Hawks over the East coast atm

NATO Exercise. Steadfast Defender.

[towser44]

Interesting and varied 20 minutes. RAF Air Tanker, A400M and a Antonov AN12 gone over the house.

[towser44]

Petrus1983 said:

Killer2005 said:

Thanks to Bonefish Blues for sharing this thread on an F1 topic.

Cool thread, I can spend ages on FlightRadar watching what's about. I live in Huddersfield and under the flight path for Manchester, Leeds Bradford, and Liverpool so have plenty to follow.

I hadn't realised what a big hub Manchester had become until recently. -even just taking a peek at FR a moment ago to see the inbound/outbound flights in the air at the moment shows it really is a full on international airport.

Used to be even better, but we've lost all of the American carriers. Used to have daily American Airlines, Delta and US Airways (before they merged with AA). Still a very good selection though nowadays.

[Stan the Bat]

Killer2005 said:

Thanks to Bonefish Blues for sharing this thread on an F1 topic.

Cool thread, I can spend ages on FlightRadar watching what's about. I live in Huddersfield and under the flight path for Manchester, Leeds Bradford, and Liverpool so have plenty to follow.

I always enjoy looking at it when on holiday.
You see flights that you would never see over the UK.

EG when in the Canaries I saw Brazil to Egypt going over--- which was nice.

[YorkshirePudding]

towser44 said:

Interesting and varied 20 minutes. RAF Air Tanker, A400M and a Antonov AN12 gone over the house.

You can tell when an AN12 is about just by the noise they make,

[Penrhyn]

RAF R135 Surveillance aircraft in the first image, the aircraft is shown in Estonia, the line shows the route it has covered so far.


USAF R135 Surveillance aircraft in the second image. The aircraft is shown in Poland , the line shows its route so far


And yes both aircraft are following similar routes that are monitoring the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

[Penrhyn]

Been watching Sky news report outside the Old Bailey when l heard a
RAF Chinook flying over going in circles it seems.



Update

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activ...

Edited by Penrhyn on Thursday 14th March 17:29

[Jo-say8k]

A group from Madrid and a group from Malaga

[Ambleton]

What's going on with this Jet2 flight? Just doing loops over the north sea.

[r3g]

It's a test flight. Hasn't entered service yet, still being prepped after leaving previous operator.

[BlindedByTheLights]

ZM414 A400m out of Brize just came over my house at 315mph at 1100ft, wish I could have seen it the noise was incredible.

[RosscoPCole]

Not often see a Maersk coming into Bournemouth. I wonder if it is full of Lego?

[Penrhyn]

12:36pm 30th March USAF B52 Bomber off east coast of England.

[Petrus1983]

Penrhyn said:

12:36pm 30th March USAF B52 Bomber off east coast of England.

That particular aircraft is 63 years old - quite remarkable really.

[loughran]

Petrus1983 said:

Penrhyn said:

12:36pm 30th March USAF B52 Bomber off east coast of England.

That particular aircraft is 63 years old - quite remarkable really.

It is remarkable. I have a car of a similar age and it always needs something doing to it and I mostly use it to go to the shop in sunny weather....hardly ever flying over the Atlantic with a payload of mass destruction.

I can't begin to imagine the scope and cost of a repair and renewal program on an aircraft that big and that old. I wonder how much of it is original or is it the largest Trigger's broom bomber in history.

[Petrus1983]

Here's a quick read for you Loughran

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/b-52-maintainer-ex...

[75Black]

Seen flying over my garden and then tracked it after, A North American T-6 Texan from the mid 1930's, flown by a private owner