Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[Jonnny]

I found the Sky Video chopper when the Brexit stuff was going on in HoP.

[kiethton]

alangla said:

This one caught my eye. Titan clearly have some sort of contract based out of Bilbao, so their 767 and 757 seem to do runs from there to Germany all day. Come the evening, they run empty to a holiday resort, do a Matterhorn flight back to the UK during the night then go back to Bilbao/Germany to continue for the next day.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-powd
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-powh

Wife's cousin is a trolley dolly for titan - have been doing a lot of the repatriation flights this week

[57Ford]

These helicopters must have massive fuel tanks!

[ecsrobin]

57Ford said:

These helicopters must have massive fuel tanks!

Or lots of stops on the way! Cheaper to load onto a plane and fly to shanghai.

[alangla]

On the day the CAA fill the press with stories about the Malaysian A380 doing the Manchester - Palma repatriation flights, it's on its way home - https://www.flightradar24.com/MAS8491/2252d69a

[hutchst]

A fleet of Falcon 20's out of Prestwick playing silly buggers over The Minch at FL200?

[PRTVR]

Probably these.
https://www.cobham.com/aviation-services/special-m...

They carry out simulation attacks for the airforce and navy.

[hutchst]

There were 4 of them, and I think there are some exercises going on, unless the French really are preparing to invade Glasgow.

[carlove]

Any ideas what this might be? I'm currently driving across the USA and a massive plane flew overhead fairly low and not close to an airport, didn't look Commerical. Looked on FlightRadar and looking at the location and time this could be it (not 100% sure though), I've google CA11 but not getting anything. It was about 10:30am central time.

[ecsrobin]

hutchst said:

There were 4 of them, and I think there are some exercises going on, unless the French really are preparing to invade Glasgow.

It’s joint warrior so they will be stimulating attack warships I’d have thought.

[MikeGTi]

carlove said:

Any ideas what this might be? I'm currently driving across the USA and a massive plane flew overhead fairly low and not close to an airport, didn't look Commerical. Looked on FlightRadar and looking at the location and time this could be it (not 100% sure though), I've google CA11 but not getting anything. It was about 10:30am central time.

Track fits with something leaving Altus AFB, which is an air transport base I believe.. lots of C-17, KC-135 etc:

ETA: It's home to the 97th Air Mobility Wing who operate C-17, KC-135, and KC-46 - https://www.altus.af.mil/

Edited by MikeGTi on Thursday 10th October 08:47

[carlove]

MikeGTi said:

Track fits with something leaving Altus AFB, which is an air transport base I believe.. lots of C-17, KC-135 etc:

ETA: It's home to the 97th Air Mobility Wing who operate C-17, KC-135, and KC-46 - https://www.altus.af.mil/

Edited by MikeGTi on Thursday 10th October 08:47

Thank you. I think it was the c-17. It was a big bloody plane.

[cuprabob]

ecsrobin said:

hutchst said:

There were 4 of them, and I think there are some exercises going on, unless the French really are preparing to invade Glasgow.

It’s joint warrior so they will be stimulating attack warships I’d have thought.

I had the pleasure to chatting to a few members of the Canadian AirForce in a coffee shop in Ayr earlier as they are curently located at Prestwick Airport for the exercise.

[PRTVR]

https://www.janes.com/article/88193/sweden-sends-s...

Swedish Gulfstream intel aircraft working the Mediterranean today.

[red_slr]

There is a global hawk loitering over Latvia at FL510.

[Jonnny]

B52 Stratofortress having some fun.

This was a few days ago, there's 3 over here at the moment.

[alangla]

Does anyone know how Flightradar figures out which aircraft is doing which flight ahead of departure? For some airlines, nothing shows up until it's left the terminal, for others (e.g. BA) it shows up a day or two before, but I noticed this morning that there's still Thomas Cook schedules showing, complete with aircraft allocated!
Example here - https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-tcdb - this plane is parked at Shannon as far as I know, but shows up as being associated with flights over the last few weeks that obviously didn't operate. Some of the Avion Express ones show as associated with TCX flights, though it also shows the Titan repatriation flights they actually operated, e.g. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ly-veb

[PRTVR]

Two Turkish aircraft near Gibraltar, a long way from home when you are in a shooting war.

[Jonnny]

Project Sunrise.. Test of the longest flight, JFK to Sydney, 20 hours.

[anonymous-user]

Jonnny said:

Project Sunrise.. Test of the longest flight, JFK to Sydney, 20 hours.

It’s sort of weird, cool to see but it’s not the beginning of a scheduled service, just delivery flights from Seattle but via JFK for a bit of extra publicity.