Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[NM62]

Leptons said:

NM62 said:

Having watched these two do a bit of a grand tour of England taking in the Lakes, The Dales, The Peak District - they did the decent thing and gave me a fly by at low level.

JIGSAW1 ZH889
JIGSAW2 ZH879

I saw them in the distance, looked fantastic. Checked Flight radar and they were just lining up for the dambusters practice run!

Nice !

The route they took must be a "standard training route" as we regularly have singleton C-130/A-400 past us at the 300 foot (indicated) mark - we are on a hill so they are just about level with us.

Even told my son and his mates when the 2 Hercules were up on the Vale of York they were likely to give us a flyby as they saw the A.400's last week. Think we have got a couple of ADSB converts

[Penrhyn]

Every day since the war in Ukraine started the Canadians have been frlying material from Canada to Poland.

I see they are now patrolling the Mediterranean flying out of Sicily.

[Fabric]

Odd one, left Glasgow for Faro - and is now circling Lanarkshire. Burning off fuel for a return?

[super7]

GL-FIX doing some aerobatics over Hook Norton..... Spitfire !!!!

[Writhing]

Thats Beechcraft went over Bury St Edmunds at about 1530 today.

[DavieBNL]

Fabric said:

Odd one, left Glasgow for Faro - and is now circling Lanarkshire. Burning off fuel for a return?

Hit a bird apparently.

[RATATTAK]

DavieBNL said:

Hit a bird apparently.

Was she pissed?

[FourWheelDrift]

Penrhyn said:

Every day since the war in Ukraine started the Canadians have been frlying material from Canada to Poland.

I see they are now patrolling the Mediterranean flying out of Sicily.

Keeping an eye on some of Russia's Black Sea Fleet (inc those 2 Kilo class subs), plus others from the Northern Fleet are in the med - https://russianfleetanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/03/...

[Fabric]

DavieBNL said:

Hit a bird apparently.

Interesting, cheers!

[7mike]

Couple of questions for those knowledgeable about these things; why do the Russians take such a wide birth on this route? I can understand avoiding Ukraine airspace but why so far west? Also, given they're not receiving spares for all these planes they've knicked how much longer can they keep them flying?

[Teddy Lop]

7mike said:

Couple of questions for those knowledgeable about these things; why do the Russians take such a wide birth on this route? I can understand avoiding Ukraine airspace but why so far west? Also, given they're not receiving spares for all these planes they've knicked how much longer can they keep them flying?

They russian. They know exactly how bad their air defence missile systems are...

[Penrhyn]

Well they are all in port now, update on the vessel reported leaving is back, see below


And Uncle Sam are sending over one of their Diplomatic Aircraft call sign SAM911

[7mike]

Teddy Lop said:

7mike said:

Couple of questions for those knowledgeable about these things; why do the Russians take such a wide birth on this route? I can understand avoiding Ukraine airspace but why so far west? Also, given they're not receiving spares for all these planes they've knicked how much longer can they keep them flying?

They russian. They know exactly how bad their air defence missile systems are...

, and of course, I meant so far East not West. Maybe with my geography skills they'll give me a job firing them

[Penrhyn]

The American Diplomat flight SAM911 was carrying Jill Biden.

[tonyvid]

A lot of Polish transports moving about

Edited by tonyvid on Monday 9th May 15:19

[darreni]

tonyvid said:

A lot of Polish transports moving about

Edited by tonyvid on Monday 9th May 15:19

Still are, currently 7 showing

[RobbyJ]

A124 getting ready to go from East Mids.

[Penrhyn]

9pm Monday the Antonov is on the move.


11pm Monday still in the air


1am Tuesday Going strong Tbilici

Edited by Penrhyn on Tuesday 10th May 01:20

[MesoForm]

Flighradar reckons there's an American Apache flying about over the UK at the moment, but at 400 knots I'm assuming it's actually an F-15 like the one behind it!

[tonyvid]

that would be impressive!