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[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

[anonymous-user]

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

[anonymous-user]

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.

[Dashnine]

Noisy C5 Galaxy just gone overhead, from Mildenhall heading to US. A strange route from Mildenhall north to the Wash then south west across the country but missing the radar corridor just to the south.

[smack]

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

I can't comment on that outfit, but someone I know used to work for Iran Air as an engineer at LHR. He said Western authorities were always inspecting their aircraft, more than other airlines so they could find an excuse to ground them, but even with Iran Air's elderly aircraft they walked away disappointed as the Iranian engineers knew their stuff and kept them in tip top condition.
From what he has said, he had to get his hand quite dirty for an engineer at an outstation, learning a lot (he was early in his career) which he enjoyed.

The opposite of a mate does the same for El Al (although furloughed since last spring), close to retirement so this is his cushy almost part time number so he can escape the wife and kids. Rarely has to get his hand dirty, just basically turns around the aircraft and organise somewhere to park them when they have a layover. Says his staff travel is pretty much useless, as he has to first fly to Tel Aviv to fly anywhere! And their office I assume is probably one of the few places in LHR other than the secure freight areas and the Met Police, that has a gun safe that is used daily for firearms storage.

[LotusOmega375D]

Having heard the An12 flying over Old Trafford during a live Match of the Day show a few weeks ago, I just heard it flying over Stamford Bridge in their match against Chelsea! This time out of Brno.

[Leptons]

An-124 over West Yorkshire earlier, nice clear view.

[Total loss]

LotusOmega375D said:

Having heard the An12 flying over Old Trafford during a live Match of the Day show a few weeks ago, I just heard it flying over Stamford Bridge in their match against Chelsea! This time out of Brno.

I saw that, or should say heard it, but couldn't see it even though the sky was clear & it was only at 24k feet
Also saw an RAF A400M which sounded odd, more like a jet, as it was decending towards Brize, coming from Nice.

[Dimebars]

sherman said:

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

They've been all over Scotland this weekend apparently

One laid up at GLA with tech issues