Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[Boatbuoy]

Busy airspace above Northamptonshire tonight, with 2 of the worlds largest planes in close proximity:

[TCEvo]

The An-225 from earlier today's currently on it's way back to the Ukraine; there's an An-124 also up at the same time - just off the Moldovian border - can see the pair together on screen.

[LHB]

TCEvo said:

The An-225 from earlier today's currently on it's way back to the Ukraine; there's an An-124 also up at the same time - just off the Moldovian border - can see the pair together on screen.

There is a 124 due into Shannon which may be the same one and I think there was another 124 up today too!

[LotusOmega375D]

Boatbuoy said:

Busy airspace above Northamptonshire tonight, with 2 of the worlds largest planes in close proximity:

You ruined my day posting those up. I was sat watching my son play cricket directly under that flight path at that time. I looked up, as I always do when I hear a jet, saw nothing despite fairly clear skies, assumed it was just another DHL cargo flight or EasyJet and carried on watching the cricket. Idiot. I truly am the world’s worst plane spotter.

Anyway just heard this go over my house on a short hop, but too much cloud to see it. D’oh!

[RobbyJ]

Let me further rub salt in the wound then by sharing a picture of it I took yesterday.

[LotusOmega375D]

Cheers.

[fatboy b]

Mate of mine flying in the USA got diverted a bit today. Once seen, you cannot un-see it

[Quattromaster]

So, this aircraft has been flying over mine earlier on for a few hrs, back and forth, each time about 500 yds further away, details for company operating say it’s a survey aircraft.

So, what would they be surveying from 2000ft over Essex and Suffolk, at 6 pm on a Friday pm. The flight path for Stansted does run pretty much through the middle of the area if that’s any help.

[towser44]

Based in Liverpool them, they have a load of those planes. They do all sorts:

Current operations include pipeline and powerline inspection and survey, environmental survey data collection (birds and other wildlife), tracking of tagged birds, air-to-surface and air-to-air photography, aerodrome lighting inspection,radar testing, global mapping, LiDAR and other types of capture with specialist, bespoke sensors.

[RobbyJ]

[jonny142]

[7mike]

On their way over the North Sea now.

[Riley Blue]

jonny142 said:

Relaying TV from BTCC. Based in France apparently and flying back each night.

[RobbyJ]

[andyA700]

There is a B17 (G-BEDF Sally B) in the air at the moment, altitude around 1200' heading a NorthWest course over Stanford le Hope, Brentwood, Epping ---

[rallye101]

My old flying instructor Andrew captains that...

Think it was at the Kent Airshow over the weekend..

[andyA700]

rallye101 said:

My old flying instructor Andrew captains that...

Think it was at the Kent Airshow over the weekend..

It was landing at North Weald last time I looked. I didn't even know about the Kent Airshow at Headcorn, I used to go there regularly. I have noticed that there is a Combined Ops Military and Airshow there on 7th/8th August. Fingers crossed I can get along to that one.

[PRTVR]

Merlins working in the Mediterranean, one at over 1000 ft AEW ? There was 3 but one must have landed back on the carrier, the other did a run to Cyprus ( beer run ?).
Earlier on a tanker aircraft was working the same area with the call sign lion.

[C70R]

Well, that's certainly unusual...

[L500]

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