Cool things seen on FlightRadar
Discussion
Jonnny said:
I thought they're doing it to see how the human mentally, and physically can deal with that long on a flight? To hopefully introduce it as a scheduled service?
That’s the story but it’s only a bit longer than flights they and others already operate plus they can’t actually operate this flight with more than a few passengers anyway. I think it’s mainly a PR exercise.alangla said:
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
I would guess it's based upon filed flight plans with Eurocontrol (or similar for other parts of the world).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 said:
BA have a facility at Cardiff for interior upgrades.
That BA facility is pretty much on the site of the old Wales Air Museum at Rhoose Airport. It had lots of interesting exhibits but it was all outdoors, and kind of died a natural death. Many of the aeroplanes displayed there were so rotten when it closed that they were scrapped on site, unfit for transportation to other museums, or simply unwanted by them.
RobbyJ said:
UR-09307 the mighty Antonov AN-22 is on the move from Kiev. Can’t get a pic to upload but the world’s biggest flying turboprop is in the air!
Total beast!
Eta - something really weird happened to the flight, appears to be making its way back to the airport -
And has now vanished :/
Edited by Petrus1983 on Wednesday 23 October 13:02
Edited by Petrus1983 on Wednesday 23 October 13:03
El stovey said:
red_slr said:
it's the take off run that amazed me. Looks like a couple of hundred yards if that, but I guess when your wings need to provide lift above 60,000Ft providing lift at ground level is easy.Gassing Station | Boats, Planes & Trains | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff