Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[PRTVR]

Chimune said:

g7jtk said:

Two passed over Hexham this morning

Been hearing lots of long grumbling overhead during past few days but nothing on fr and too clouds to see anything.
Just heard it again and clouds parted enough to see these heading south over hexham / a68

Watched the same 4 heading south , nothing showing on flight radars, suspect they were American.

[aeropilot]

PRTVR said:

Chimune said:

g7jtk said:

Two passed over Hexham this morning

Been hearing lots of long grumbling overhead during past few days but nothing on fr and too clouds to see anything.
Just heard it again and clouds parted enough to see these heading south over hexham / a68

Watched the same 4 heading south , nothing showing on flight radars, suspect they were American.

F-15's heading to Iceland or Stateside most likely...?

[PRTVR]

aeropilot said:

PRTVR said:

Chimune said:

g7jtk said:

Two passed over Hexham this morning

Been hearing lots of long grumbling overhead during past few days but nothing on fr and too clouds to see anything.
Just heard it again and clouds parted enough to see these heading south over hexham / a68

Watched the same 4 heading south , nothing showing on flight radars, suspect they were American.

F-15's heading to Iceland or Stateside most likely...?

F15's was my first thought, but heading in the wrong direction for Iceland, reinforcements for possible increasing tensions with Iran?

[aeropilot]

PRTVR said:

aeropilot said:

PRTVR said:

Chimune said:

g7jtk said:

Two passed over Hexham this morning

Been hearing lots of long grumbling overhead during past few days but nothing on fr and too clouds to see anything.
Just heard it again and clouds parted enough to see these heading south over hexham / a68

Watched the same 4 heading south , nothing showing on flight radars, suspect they were American.

F-15's heading to Iceland or Stateside most likely...?

F15's was my first thought, but heading in the wrong direction for Iceland, reinforcements for possible increasing tensions with Iran?

Oh yeah......completely missed the 'south' bit in my rush reading

So, yes, 4 replacement birds coming in from USA probably for 4 that went t'other way.

[Beato]

They flew over Edinburgh on there way down the Uk. Pretty cool to see

[Chimune]

Another 2 heading south. Bit further east this time.

[Beato]

Chimune said:

Another 2 heading south. Bit further east this time.

Came over Edinburgh again. Lot of bombing to be done this week!

[Chimune]

Ha who needs fr? We tracking them ourselves!

[Horsham558]

aeropilot said:

Oh yeah......completely missed the 'south' bit in my rush reading

So, yes, 4 replacement birds coming in from USA probably for 4 that went t'other way.

It's just the Lakenheath F-15s being very busy and out and about all over the place today. I live local and caught at least 2 flights on the scanner departing to the Scottish low-fly areas plus others going to Wales, SW England, heading for the tankers over the North Sea etc. Nice day for it.

[Chimune]

Heading north just now.

[ecsrobin]

Chimune said:

Heading north just now.

On a Saturday! Must be an army exercise somewhere.

[sherman]

Whats this Apache doing over Edinburgh. We dont see them up here at all usually?
Its flight path isnt from any army base/airfield I knos of?
At best you grt hercules or A400m doing touch and goes at Edinburgh airport.
VIPER2 https://fr24.com/VIPER2/26f02127

[Chestrockwell]

Iranian 747-200F, must be a ropey old thing, 30 year old jumbo jet with most of its parts presumably sourced on the black market because of the sanctions

[MikeGTi]

Chestrockwell said:

Iranian 747-200F, must be a ropey old thing, 30 year old jumbo jet with most of its parts presumably sourced on the black market because of the sanctions

Well.. it made it to Caracas.. It seems to fly to some interesting parts of the world

[El stovey]

MikeGTi said:

Chestrockwell said:

Iranian 747-200F, must be a ropey old thing, 30 year old jumbo jet with most of its parts presumably sourced on the black market because of the sanctions

Well.. it made it to Caracas.. It seems to fly to some interesting parts of the world

I wouldn’t be happy to be getting on that thing.

[Petrus1983]

Would they be able to service it whilst on the ground in other locations to get around any import bans in Iran?

[Dr Jekyll]

Chestrockwell said:

Iranian 747-200F, must be a ropey old thing, 30 year old jumbo jet with most of its parts presumably sourced on the black market because of the sanctions

The Iranians still keep 40 odd year old Tomcats in service, they are clearly a resourceful lot.

[Total loss]

Dr Jekyll said:

The Iranians still keep 40 odd year old Tomcats in service, they are clearly a resourceful lot.

I think its only a few of them, the others providing the spares to keep the few flying.

[djc206]

El stovey said:

I wouldn’t be happy to be getting on that thing.

Where’s your sense of adventure?






I wouldn’t either

[El stovey]

djc206 said:

El stovey said:

I wouldn’t be happy to be getting on that thing.

Where’s your sense of adventure?






I wouldn’t either

I’ve been on some dodgy old aircraft over the years but most were designed to be robust and a bit agricultural in the first place. More complex aircraft like a 747 that’s had less than optimum maintenance must have all sorts of things just waiting to go wrong. God know what it will be like when really complex things full of one off systems and composites etc like B787s and A350s end up on the used market.

I expect some new passenger aircraft are more like modern appliances like fridges and are just designed to be scrapped after 20 years or so.