Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[speedking31]

[IO390]

Of course, drawing a sky dick is nothing new, but I had a couple of hours to burn before I can do my PPL skills test so I gave it a go.

After several attempts to get symmetrical looking testicles, I found that putting the intersection of the circles over a ground reference (in this case the corner of a reservoir) helped tremendously. There was about a 15kt wind perpendicular to the shaft, hence the difficulty.

I'm quite proud of it.

[Scabutz]

IO390 said:

Of course, drawing a sky dick is nothing new, but I had a couple of hours to burn before I can do my PPL skills test so I gave it a go.

After several attempts to get symmetrical looking testicles, I found that putting the intersection of the circles over a ground reference (in this case the corner of a reservoir) helped tremendously. There was about a 15kt wind perpendicular to the shaft, hence the difficulty.

I'm quite proud of it.

Fantastic effort. Balls are quite small compared to the wang - assume its a steroid user?

[Insurancejon]

Penrhyn said:

I would imagine its the Bristow airsea rescue based at Caernavon. They are BIG and make a hell of a lot noise.

That’s the badger cheers

[Fabric]

IO390 said:

Of course, drawing a sky dick is nothing new, but I had a couple of hours to burn before I can do my PPL skills test so I gave it a go.

After several attempts to get symmetrical looking testicles, I found that putting the intersection of the circles over a ground reference (in this case the corner of a reservoir) helped tremendously. There was about a 15kt wind perpendicular to the shaft, hence the difficulty.

I'm quite proud of it.

Hero.

[The Brummie]

Gazelle up with an A380 in the background.

[CharlieH89]

Just seen as I was driving home

[tedmus]

CharlieH89 said:

Just seen as I was driving home

Cool, I was wondering what that was, it was picked up on ADSB. Some pics of it on the EGGP spotters FB page.

[yellowjack]

CharlieH89 said:

Just seen as I was driving home

https://kubicekballoons.co.uk/blog/Specialshapehot...

More "special shape" hot air balloons here... https://www.mjballooning.com/special-shapes.html

[alangla]

The Belgians seem to like training at UK airports - https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ct-02#... - Glasgow, Cardiff & Newquay so far.

[seabod91]

naturals said:

andyA700 said:

We live around twenty miles from Biggin hill and are underneath the flightpath for incoming flights. This morning a small Cessna jet came over, so I followed the flight path back to Sion airport in Switzerland. I then had a look at Google earth, to find out what different kinds of aircraft were on the deck. I then spotted this unmistakeable classic from the past. What a lovely aircraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEaSDqxZVoY

I've taxied by it at Zurich a couple of times. So elegant compared to all the modern private jets which are usually on the apron there.

Got me intrigued. Love scouring google maps for cool finds. So is this a vampire at the same airport?

[aeropilot]

seabod91 said:

Got me intrigued. Love scouring google maps for cool finds. So is this a vampire at the same airport?

Yes, most likely, there are more ex-Swiss Vampire's around than ex-Swiss Venom's, so Vampire is the more likely.

[Penrhyn]

[MarkwG]

seabod91 said:

naturals said:

andyA700 said:

We live around twenty miles from Biggin hill and are underneath the flightpath for incoming flights. This morning a small Cessna jet came over, so I followed the flight path back to Sion airport in Switzerland. I then had a look at Google earth, to find out what different kinds of aircraft were on the deck. I then spotted this unmistakeable classic from the past. What a lovely aircraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEaSDqxZVoY

I've taxied by it at Zurich a couple of times. So elegant compared to all the modern private jets which are usually on the apron there.

Got me intrigued. Love scouring google maps for cool finds. So is this a vampire at the same airport?

Did you see the Hunter & the Mirage, east of there, west & south of the tower?

[andyA700]

I was looking at FR earlier on and saw 3 Dassault Mirages off the Florida coast. Anyway, here are a couple of vids of the Swiss Vampire and Mirage. Other interesting air bases to see are - Fairchild AFB, Barksdale AFB, Tinker AFB, Minot AFB, Nellis AFB, Central Air Force Museum Monino Moscow Oblast Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwHL9ktuPDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQU1f_bgPFE

[seabod91]

MarkwG said:

seabod91 said:

naturals said:

andyA700 said:

We live around twenty miles from Biggin hill and are underneath the flightpath for incoming flights. This morning a small Cessna jet came over, so I followed the flight path back to Sion airport in Switzerland. I then had a look at Google earth, to find out what different kinds of aircraft were on the deck. I then spotted this unmistakeable classic from the past. What a lovely aircraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEaSDqxZVoY

I've taxied by it at Zurich a couple of times. So elegant compared to all the modern private jets which are usually on the apron there.

Got me intrigued. Love scouring google maps for cool finds. So is this a vampire at the same airport?

Did you see the Hunter & the Mirage, east of there, west & south of the tower?

I have now. What an interesting place.

[tonyvid]

A neighbour asked what noisy aircraft was east of Bury St Edmunds just before 06:00 today - I don’t know how to back-track on the sites so can anyone help with what it was please?

[Dr Jekyll]

There was a 747 going into Mildenhall from the East at about that time, wouldn't expect it to be all that noisy though.

[eltawater]

Just spotted near Milton Keynes

Edited by eltawater on Thursday 8th July 20:20

[tonyvid]

Dr Jekyll said:

There was a 747 going into Mildenhall from the East at about that time, wouldn't expect it to be all that noisy though.

Thank you, those are a lot more boomy than the usual KC135s when they go over but it didn’t wake me up!