Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[Penrhyn]

Spitfire and Gyrocopter 26th May 9.24

[RobbyJ]

Horsham558 said:

It's a lovely thing, 1975 vintage with quite a few mods and now operated by the fabulously named Missile Defence Agency! It's here for an exercise to monitor ballistic missile launches through its various lumps and bumps. I was lucky to be at Mildenhall when went out for its 1st mission since arriving some 10 days earlier. Spey powered so lots of noise and smoke., IMG_8590 by Andrew St Edmunds, on Flickr

Awesome, thanks for the info. Wish I'd been there to see and hear it.

[tonyvid]

Horsham558 said:

tonyvid said:

Thank you! That's really interesting and will be a surprise to a few used to the old designations...what freq are you listening on please?

Hi Tony. Mildenhall Tower is on 370.25 and I'm sure that they check in on 369.80 as Lakenheath Approach. I'll have another listen to the scanner tomorrow and make notes.?? ( scanner has far too many freqs saved so I'm not 100% sure yet re the approach.) Hope that helps.

Thank you, i really need to put my antenna up, it's 2 years since I moved here so running out of excuses!

[anonymous-user]

A Royal Air Force Airbus A400M has so far done 2 touch and gos at Birmingham airport. It originated at Brize Norton, then flew over Jersey, then to Birmingham. Anyone know why it would do the touch and gos?

[LP12]

Routine pilot training.

[Uncle John]

All these yank planes over here, do we have similar with RAF over there? Doubt it, is it just sheer numbers or the yanks using us as an outpost?

[LP12]

RAF routinely visits the USA.

[anonymous-user]

LP12 said:

Routine pilot training.

[Juanco20]

Any idea what the two jets over the north east and whitby are doing?

Looked like they were chasing each other at one point but now seperated

[RobbyJ]

Two of the Cobham/Draken Falcon 20's are up. G-FRAA and G-FRAS, they'll be fast jets up there too, just with ADSB off.

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/flying-for-the-da...

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/20...

[5 In a Row]

Not on flight radar but spotted with my own eyes, a V22 Osprey in the vicinity of Leuchars.
As it flew over they rotated the wings/rotors to the vertical.

I'm told their ship is off Arbroath.

[Dashnine]

5 In a Row said:

Not on flight radar but spotted with my own eyes, a V22 Osprey in the vicinity of Leuchars.
As it flew over they rotated the wings/rotors to the vertical.

I'm told their ship is off Arbroath.

Might be 'our' ship as there was some footage around of a V22 landing on one of our (UK) new carriers.

[Trevatanus]

Hmmm

[LotusOmega375D]

Buchon, Spitfire and Mustang from Sywell just turned directly over my house in close formation. Lovely sight and sound.

[yellowjack]

RobbyJ said:

Two of the Cobham/Draken Falcon 20's are up. G-FRAA and G-FRAS, they'll be fast jets up there too, just with ADSB off.

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/flying-for-the-da...

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/20...

Definitely Draken now. From the horse's mouth, "the Cobham name is no more". My B-i-L works on the contracts side with the Falcon fleet and we had a long chat t'other day as I drove him home from a stay in hospital. The Falcon fleet is in the process of being re-liveried as Draken. They've got six months to do it, and the repaint is getting done as each aircraft goes in for planned maintenance.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Trevatanus said:

Hmmm

You saying it may be something else doing 495knts at 45000ft

[towser44]

Hot Air Balloon on Global ADSB Exchange, looks like took off from Tring and is just between Dunstable and Milton Keynes

[BFleming]

Le Cock et Balls...

[BFleming]

Uncle John said:

All these yank planes over here, do we have similar with RAF over there? Doubt it, is it just sheer numbers or the yanks using us as an outpost?

The RAF is indeed in the US; I have a family friend there right now in California at El Centro. The El Centro page says:
Every month, seven to 12 squadrons and up to 1,600 personnel train here. Additionally, U.S. Air Force parachutists, U.S. Navy SEAL's, Army Green Berets, and British, French, German and Italian aviators visit for various phases of their training.

Edited by BFleming on Friday 28th May 11:44

[Dashnine]

BFleming said:

Uncle John said:

All these yank planes over here, do we have similar with RAF over there? Doubt it, is it just sheer numbers or the yanks using us as an outpost?

The RAF is indeed in the US; I have a family friend there right now in California at El Centro. The El Centro page says:
Every month, seven to 12 squadrons and up to 1,600 personnel train here. Additionally, U.S. Air Force parachutists, U.S. Navy SEAL's, Army Green Berets, and British, French, German and Italian aviators visit for various phases of their training.

Edited by BFleming on Friday 28th May 11:44

But we (UK) don't occupy complete airbases like the USA do over here. We're basically a static aircraft carrier for operations in Europe and the Baltic, a bit like Germany is (or was) for the US Army. All remnants from WWII and the Cold War even though maybe some current bases weren't American during WWII.

Off the top of my head RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Fairford and around 10 other lesser known ones. Amusingly still called 'RAF Wherever' as I guess the land is still 'ours'.