Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[tonyvid]

That’s a funny route to Madrid...?

[Total loss]

DavieBNL said:

ecsrobin said:

Total loss said:

Have a look off the Welsh coast near Harlech, the RAF fly theirs out of Llanbedr.

Don’t the RAF fly out of Aberporth? Llanbedr was setting up as a commercial drone operating area and I’ve been along to some trials there but all civilian.

The Army (certainly not the not RAF!) operate Watchkeeper out of - what was - Aberporth (it's now known as West Wales) on some training and trials flying. There has been some occassional MoD sponsored activity at Llanbedr but, as you say, the site is now commercially owned and operated and primarily used by industry for the testing of unmanned systems.

OK, OK, my mind was associating drones of old, target drones with Llanbedr & the RAF do fly things, right?
At least the Welsh coast was right.

Edited by Total loss on Wednesday 24th February 08:22

[motomk]

tonyvid said:

That’s a funny route to Madrid...?

On the other websites it was actually going to New York JFK.

[aeropilot]

NM62 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

HM-2 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Anyone know why the Gnat in the first picture is painted green? I mean to ask when I was there but forgot.

Isn't that an F-105 Thunderchief? Looks like its still in Vietnam-era paint.

Behind the nose of the F-105/Rf-101 or whatever there's a T-33 or similar, look behind that.

Royal Air Force Flight Test Colours according to this

Which is clearly a figment of his imagination.......

[naturals]

El stovey said:

The museum looks awesome! Is there an ANA 787 there?

Yes (at least it was there in 2015 when I went). It was the 2nd 787 ever built and was a test aircraft (no idea why it ended up in ANA colours or whether it was ever put into service).

[LotusOmega375D]

ANA were the first Dreamliner customer weren’t they?

[DavieBNL]

Total loss said:

DavieBNL said:

ecsrobin said:

Total loss said:

Have a look off the Welsh coast near Harlech, the RAF fly theirs out of Llanbedr.

Don’t the RAF fly out of Aberporth? Llanbedr was setting up as a commercial drone operating area and I’ve been along to some trials there but all civilian.

The Army (certainly not the not RAF!) operate Watchkeeper out of - what was - Aberporth (it's now known as West Wales) on some training and trials flying. There has been some occassional MoD sponsored activity at Llanbedr but, as you say, the site is now commercially owned and operated and primarily used by industry for the testing of unmanned systems.

OK, OK, my mind was associating drones of old, target drones with Llanbedr & the RAF do fly things, right?
At least the Welsh coast was right.

Edited by Total loss on Wednesday 24th February 08:22

Ah the glory days of Jindiviks and radio controlled Meteors! Interestingly they do still fly targets in the Aberporth Range but none need a runway, they are fired off the cliffs at the Aberporth rangehead mainly for RAF Typhoon and Navy ship missile firings. The targets are all owned and operated privately by QinetiQ now.

[bungz]

[tonyvid]

If you listen carefully you can probably hear it from here! I used to see the occasional one going into Luton and you could hear it screaming a long time before it arrived, weird but lovely aircraft.

[Arun_D]

This caught my eye over Belgium earlier.

Little did I know this is the site of for DronePort drone testing site.

[RacingPete]

gobuddygo said:

Never seen one of these before hoping it turns left and comes over Leeds where i am.

Do a track day at Snetterton on a week day and you get a good chance of seeing one.

[tedmus]

tedmus said:

Alouette HA-WKZ overhead just now.

This is up again now, just over Crewe heading towards Stoke

[Alxxx]

Just spotted this over Kenya, that's a lot of balloons

[Munter]

Alxxx said:

Just spotted this over Kenya, that's a lot of balloons

Internet provision without fixed infrastructure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53321007

[Alxxx]

Munter said:

Internet provision without fixed infrastructure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53321007

Thank you very much, I had never heard of that.

[tonyvid]

RacingPete said:

gobuddygo said:

Never seen one of these before hoping it turns left and comes over Leeds where i am.

Do a track day at Snetterton on a week day and you get a good chance of seeing one.

I've got one almost overhead at the moment - with it's rotors in the horizontal while going forward rather than looking like massive props, it sounds very different like that as most that pass here are in "prop" mode.

[Castrol for a knave]

tonyvid said:

RacingPete said:

gobuddygo said:

Never seen one of these before hoping it turns left and comes over Leeds where i am.

Do a track day at Snetterton on a week day and you get a good chance of seeing one.

I've got one almost overhead at the moment - with it's rotors in the horizontal while going forward rather than looking like massive props, it sounds very different like that as most that pass here are in "prop" mode.

Amazing looking things aren't they?

We stayed in San Diego a few years back, and our balcony looked onto the naval air base at Coronado - dozens of the things in the air at any time, along with all sorts of stuff from trainers to fast jets and heavy transport, and every helicopter you could think off.

My other half loved it, but then again, she used to go out with an Apache pilot so she likes the Top Gun type...

[Arun_D]

By chance noticed an AN-124 heading in our direction earlier.Took off from Puerto Rico.

Came right over our town, but today's blanket of cloud cover meant I could only hear it. Real shame as I've never seen one before, and a dot at 32,000ft would still count!

Bonus USAF C130 from Mildenhall to the east.

[Arun_D]

Boeing E4 over the Gulf of Mexico.






Simultaneously, a U2 doing circuits at Beale AFB

[aeropilot]

Arun_D said:

Simultaneously, a U2 doing circuits at Beale AFB

Training or refresher pilot training, as its two seater 2S version.