Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[hammo19]

Samaritans Purse DC8-72CF in UK airspace at the moment

[tedmus]

Yeah just spotted that myself.

[Total loss]

Total loss said:

Monday evening 15th/ Tuesday 16th morning, 21.00 to 04.00, the RAF have an exercise taking place at RAF Honington, involving C-130's & helicopters, so might be worth a look.

Currently a C130, 3 Apaches, 2 Beech King Airs & an unidentified call sign only (LFTR1) bothering East Anglian residents

[smack]

Total loss said:

Total loss said:

Monday evening 15th/ Tuesday 16th morning, 21.00 to 04.00, the RAF have an exercise taking place at RAF Honington, involving C-130's & helicopters, so might be worth a look.

Currently a C130, 3 Apaches, 2 Beech King Airs & an unidentified call sign only (LFTR1) bothering East Anglian residents

Week long exercise:

https://twitter.com/RAFMildenhall/status/137042740...

I noted earlier that 2 KC-135's landed at Fairford, and a C-130 and an A400M has been busy there tonight doing touch and go circuits by the look of it.

[Total loss]

smack said:

Total loss said:

Total loss said:

Monday evening 15th/ Tuesday 16th morning, 21.00 to 04.00, the RAF have an exercise taking place at RAF Honington, involving C-130's & helicopters, so might be worth a look.

Currently a C130, 3 Apaches, 2 Beech King Airs & an unidentified call sign only (LFTR1) bothering East Anglian residents

Week long exercise:

https://twitter.com/RAFMildenhall/status/137042740...

I noted earlier that 2 KC-135's landed at Fairford, and a C-130 and an A400M has been busy there tonight doing touch and go circuits by the look of it.

Different exercise.

[numtumfutunch]

P68R from the national police air service tonight making a number of repeated purposeful circles over towns on either sides of the Pennines an hour or so ago

My absolute guess is thermal cameras looking for cannabis houses but honestly I have no real idea

There were probably 4-5 areas it flew over in lots and lots of circles

Cheers

[djc206]

twister said:

Don't recall seeing any camera helicopters showing up during previous big events, which is why it seemed unusual to see them on there today.

Fair enough, I’m fairly sure I’ve seen them in the past but maybe that was on ADS-B exchange

[ecsrobin]

Total loss said:

Currently a C130, 3 Apaches, 2 Beech King Airs & an unidentified call sign only (LFTR1) bothering East Anglian residents

LFTR1 is Lifter 1 (lifter being one of the formation callsigns for chinooks).

[ecsrobin]

numtumfutunch said:

P68R from the national police air service tonight making a number of repeated purposeful circles over towns on either sides of the Pennines an hour or so ago

My absolute guess is thermal cameras looking for cannabis houses but honestly I have no real idea

There were probably 4-5 areas it flew over in lots and lots of circles

Cheers

NPAS are generally chasing criminals or looking for suicidal missing persons cannabis houses as is reported everyone and again is just coincidental when conducting their normal work.

[Piginapoke]

ecsrobin said:

Total loss said:

Currently a C130, 3 Apaches, 2 Beech King Airs & an unidentified call sign only (LFTR1) bothering East Anglian residents

LFTR1 is Lifter 1 (lifter being one of the formation callsigns for chinooks).

It was a night flying exercise at Honington, going on all week I think. Something big went over us at 3am!

[Total loss]

ecsrobin said:

Total loss said:

Currently a C130, 3 Apaches, 2 Beech King Airs & an unidentified call sign only (LFTR1) bothering East Anglian residents

LFTR1 is Lifter 1 (lifter being one of the formation callsigns for chinooks).

Thanks, the symbol on screen was a twin engined airliner, so was one of the Apaches

[tonyvid]

Piginapoke said:

ecsrobin said:

Total loss said:

Currently a C130, 3 Apaches, 2 Beech King Airs & an unidentified call sign only (LFTR1) bothering East Anglian residents

LFTR1 is Lifter 1 (lifter being one of the formation callsigns for chinooks).

It was a night flying exercise at Honington, going on all week I think. Something big went over us at 3am!

I could hear a distant LFTR1 for about 5mins during the evening and it was showing as a fixed wing symbol on the tracker, I think the 100ft 120knts was a bit of a giveaway. An Apache went overhead at about 03:30 on his way home for a cup of tea. I get loads overhead here and they make such a distinctive noise I don't bother looking them up anymore!

[Chimune]

USA stratotanker just went over keilder towards kintyre

[Chestrockwell]

[Jim H]

What’s this above, I’ve just seen something very unusual fly at height over my house in Cumbria.

Close con trails, both twin engine aircraft, very high, but obviously flying close together, within I’d estimate 1000 yards?!

Hard to say, but I’ve never seen what looked like airliners flying so close at height??

[djc206]

Are you sure it wasn’t two civil airliners overflying the same point but vertically separated? On FR24 there’s a BA A321-neo into Glasgow and an AA B777 from Heathrow that would have passed over the Kendal area at the same time

[tedmus]

Jim H said:

What’s this above, I’ve just seen something very unusual fly at height over my house in Cumbria.

RAF Voyager, pics of it refuelling Typhoons off the coast of the IOM

https://twitter.com/Andrew57397708/status/13718674...

[Jim H]

Very hard to say, at first I thought it was one airliner, then noticed the con trail was staggered, one was marginally behind the other. On closer inspection I realised it was two large jets flying very close, couldn’t distinguish altitude, but high.

My house is on a peninsula that faces towards the Isle of Man and they were flying inland from that direction.

It didn’t look like a small fighter being re fuel’d (Typhoon) they both looked similar sizes.

It left me wondering how they could be so close (wake turbulence) and they maintained position until they left my field of vision - which was considerable.

Never seen anything like it before.

[Chestrockwell]

tedmus said:

RAF Voyager, pics of it refuelling Typhoons off the coast of the IOM

https://twitter.com/Andrew57397708/status/13718674...

I thought it was Boris Force 1? It even has windows! I had no idea that doubled as a tanker too

[Magog]

Looks like one of the BA A380s is on it's way back from Spain... just over Guildford now.