Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[RobbyJ]

thewarlock said:

Oldest thing I've seen flying for a while

Harrison Ford is still flying isn't he? (and causing chaos)

[peter tdci]

LHB said:

Just had a lovely surprise as I was taking the dog out, haven’t seen Apaches flying over the Chilterns before



Sorry for the awful photo they weren’t showing up on any tracking sites.

Coincidentally, I was watching Big Jet TV on YouTube at around 18:10 yesterday and two Apaches flew over Heathrow at around 500'. One of them showed up on FlightRadar24 as 'Outlaw1' and they headed on towards Northholt.

See them on here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDw0iJPMzOI at around 2hr 38mins

[Hereward]

peter tdci said:

LHB said:

Just had a lovely surprise as I was taking the dog out, haven’t seen Apaches flying over the Chilterns before



Sorry for the awful photo they weren’t showing up on any tracking sites.

Coincidentally, I was watching Big Jet TV on YouTube at around 18:10 yesterday and two Apaches flew over Heathrow at around 500'. One of them showed up on FlightRadar24 as 'Outlaw1' and they headed on towards Northholt.

See them on here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDw0iJPMzOI at around 2hr 38mins

Two Apaches just passed over me in Surrey, near Gatwick. Very cool. They didn't have the front-mounted cannons I remember from the Gulf war.

[tedmus]

Currently staying in a cottage just North of Barmouth, heard something loud approaching so went out into the garden to see 2 V22 Ospreys going over very low and heading North. Apparently they went through the loop a couple of times. I've never seen one before so made up at getting a sight of 2 at low level, noisy buggers!

[Zad]

PRTVR said:

yellowjack said:

Not on FR24, but yesterday I was out in my garden when a Hughes/Schweizer 300 flew over, heading ESE in the general direction of the Isle Of Wight from Bournemouth.

Pretty cool for a basic design which first flew in 1956...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizer_S300

Great picture, are they three seater ?

Abba tribute band, clearly

[Honeywell]

weeboot said:

Data on FR24 has just updated to show it was BRS -> BRS, path just stuck out when I opened my browser to look at what my kit here is tracking

I'll be flying that next week. It's cheaper to give the aircraft a brief flight before certain maintenance requirement kick in for ground stored aircraft. If the weathers nice it's a nice jolly little day out like you're back in a Cessna rather than a $99million Airbus A321Neo. You'll see an increase in shuttle flights to LTN (engineering base) in the coming weeks as aircraft are prepared for re-entering service after May17th.

[NM62]

GRIM 01 & 02 B52s Heading East

[saaby93]

Interesting pattern? Crop spraying?

[MikeGTi]

What's the crop? Killer tomatoes?

Most likely aerial survey or aerial photography for mapping

[sherman]

saaby93 said:

Interesting pattern? Crop spraying?

Unless the entire Cotswolds just got covid disinfected for touism to reopen. Thats a survey or mapping flight

[Amateurish]

There was a Spitfire doing a touch and go at wellesbourne airfield this afternoon

[Nickyboy]

Interesting spot of a drone over the South Coast, what drone would come up on Flightradar?

[Andy616]

Nickyboy said:

Interesting spot of a drone over the South Coast, what drone would come up on Flightradar?

Going by the reg it's one of these - https://uas.tekever.com/ar5/

Operated by HM Coastguard / Border Force

[Andy_C77]

Just downloaded the app for the first time and spotted this.

P51 Mustang

[LHB]

Lovely surprise whilst visiting my mother earlier!





It was a Hurricane, a Dornier Do-28 and I didn’t get a good enough look at the 3rd plane. I assume either another Hurricane or a Spit though.

[Total loss]

some bloke said:

yellowjack said:

some bloke said:

Re the DC3/C47 - back in the 80's I spent a few happy hours flying in/hitching lifts around NZ in ZK-BBJ. She was owned by a freight company 2 schoolmates worked for. Sadly I think she is sitting at an airfield in Africa now.


http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Se...

Perhaps this one... https://www.google.com/maps/search/mombasa+airport...

Probably.

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/tmp-zkbbj-pilgrim.htm

The goose logo apparently came about as a top dressing pilot working for Fieldair was seen chasing one in a Tiger Moth, and caugt it from the cockpit. So the story goes...

I'll have photos of it somewhere, had quite a few trips into Mombasa, I do seem to remember 2 derelict DC-3's there (although my memory is not what it used to be.) it only seems to show 1 on Google maps, the other aircraft have all been there a long time as well.

[LotusOmega375D]

Just heard this Police helicopter outside. He seems to have religiously followed the M11, A14 and A45. I wonder why?

[Andy_C77]

Just spotted this. Loving this app. Hours of fun. Lol

[ApOrbital]

Think i have just seen a de Havilland Vampire jet shoot past my house in mk but i could be wrong,Whatever it was it's cool.

[LukeBrown66]

Those Apaches have been doing the rounds for days, not sure, maybe training or nav work.