Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[PD9]

Greendubber said:

PD9 said:

Nasa 747 - Departs and lands at Christchurch on looping flights.

Is that the one with the telescope in the back?

Had a look and sure is: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/sofia-heads-to-new-zea...

[RobDickinson]

PD9 said:

Greendubber said:

PD9 said:

Nasa 747 - Departs and lands at Christchurch on looping flights.

Is that the one with the telescope in the back?

Had a look and sure is: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/sofia-heads-to-new-zea...

Yep - I was on board a couple of weeks ago. Incredibly interesting bit of kit, need to sort through my photos from it.

Typical 10 hour flights with relatively complex curved flight plan, increasing altitude as they use up fuel (higher is better) and enough fuel left to divert to Auckland should they need to.

[RobDickinson]

NASA Sofia by Rob Dickinson, on Flickr

[Greendubber]

Awesome

[DJFish]

There was a high flying helicopter overhead yesterday which is unusual in Essex, It's usually a police helicopter 100ft over the house shining a light in the garden, turns out it was this:

www.helis.com/database/cn/16332/
It appears to be a frequent visitor to the UK......

[StonetheCrows]

Made a change from the usual Easyjet, Ryanair and Whizz arrivals in to Luton

[weeboot]

Not on FlightRadar, but on my tracking station...

[NM62]

weeboot said:

Not on FlightRadar, but on my tracking station...

I saw one of them (forgive my ignorance but how many have the RAF got ?) yesterday at around 16:15 - heading towards Brize Norton - about 2 miles from our holiday home.

ETA - just saw the Callsign and that tied up too - after he landed he was practising a reversing manoeuvre.

[Fluid]

NM62 said:

weeboot said:

Not on FlightRadar, but on my tracking station...

I saw one of them (forgive my ignorance but how many have the RAF got ?) yesterday at around 16:15 - heading towards Brize Norton - about 2 miles from our holiday home.

ETA - just saw the Callsign and that tied up too - after he landed he was practising a reversing manoeuvre.

Number 10, ZM410 was delivered at the weekend.

ETA correct tail number prefix, I had used a C17 one.

Edited by Fluid on Tuesday 26th July 20:08

[NM62]

Fluid said:

Number 10, ZM410 was delivered at the weekend.

ETA correct tail number prefix, I had used a C17 one.

Edited by Fluid on Tuesday 26th July 20:08

Number 10 already, knew they had ordered 22 and the last one is due 2019 so that fits.

[muppetdave]

They're doing trials with the A400 at Woodbridge in Suffolk if you're interested: http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/raf_cargo_plane_to_unde...

[alangla]

Airbus Beluga F-GSTD seems to be heading for the wing factory in North Wales just now

[sicasey]

alangla said:

Airbus Beluga F-GSTD seems to be heading for the wing factory in North Wales just now

Interesting, just watching that now.

[anonymous-user]

Google maps updating in Wales.

[Hub]

Nasa flying quite high - are they observing the hurricane in the region?

[mrtwisty]

I wonder of you chaps will know...?

Dark green (military I presume) four engined prop plane going back and forth over the Porthcothan/Constantine Bay area on Monday afternoon - what would it likely have been?

Was quite interesting watching it (and later the Red Arrows) from my kayak off the coast

[alangla]

Brand new Ryanair 737 on its delivery voyage - https://www.flightradar24.com/RYR800V/aebf22d

[kiethton]

alangla said:

Brand new Ryanair 737 on its delivery voyage - https://www.flightradar24.com/RYR800V/aebf22d

Didn't think that it'd have the range for that?

[anonymous-user]

alangla said:

Brand new Ryanair 737 on its delivery voyage - https://www.flightradar24.com/RYR800V/aebf22d

Non stop? Must have properly brimmed it before setting off

[Hub]

Being empty probably makes it easier, and a nice jet stream tail wind too. Surely they all must make that journey across the Atlantic to start with.