Cool things seen on FlightRadar

[aeropilot]

Itsallicanafford said:

It’s all kicking off over St Albans, we are being buzzed by 4 planes in tight formation doing loops, while a spitfire passes to our south

Booked for displays/flypasts over the Centurion Club for this mega buck Saudi backed brakeaway golf tournament.

[LotusOmega375D]

2 South Korean Hercules just out of Boscombe Down…

[Deltic]

Penrhyn said:

These screenshots taken at 14:05 today.

Royal Air Force R135 flying near the Russian exclusion zone.

Saw this and wondered, there's often a Global Hawk flying that pattern, but haven't seen anything crewed flying that close to Crimea.

[The Brummie]

Avro Anson up & about.

[Tony1963]

There’s a C5M on the ground at Mildenhall

[aeropilot]

LotusOmega375D said:

2 South Korean Hercules just out of Boscombe Down…

There were 3 arrived a few days ago, bringing in all the support equipment for the RSKAF Black Eagles display team that are displaying at RIAT next month.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

Cheating as I didn't see it in FR... However, had a catalina fly over earlier. Heard the radial rumble and popped out into the garden.

[anonymous-user]

Robin DR400? They were made of wood IIRC

[Mr Dendrite]

Deltic said:

Penrhyn said:

These screenshots taken at 14:05 today.

Royal Air Force R135 flying near the Russian exclusion zone.

Saw this and wondered, there's often a Global Hawk flying that pattern, but haven't seen anything crewed flying that close to Crimea.

The RAF Rivet Joint is down there at least three days a week and sometimes goes along way in toward Sochi. Clearly has its transponders on to avoid any “accidents” The global Hawk doesn’t go as Far East. I think that is a NATO out of Sicily. They’ve just signed that programme over.
I have not seen a USAF Rivet Joint down there. This is all from just looking at flight radar24. From the number of tankers loitering over Poland and Romania there is an awful lot down there with the transponders off.

[jamesbilluk]

Belgium military F16 over the local park today.

And a rather loud vintage looking jet with twin tail booms (wasn't showing on flight radar or ADS-B Exchange)

[Elroy Blue]

That'll be a vampire. They're is one still airworthy

[aeropilot]

jamesbilluk said:

Belgium military F16 over the local park today.

And a rather loud vintage looking jet with twin tail booms (wasn't showing on flight radar or ADS-B Exchange)

I'm guessing en-route to display at Cosford?

[jamesbilluk]

Elroy Blue said:

That'll be a vampire. They're is one still airworthy

Thank you Certainly great to see it.

[Penrhyn]

RAF still loitering in the Black Sea.

USAF death star!!!, flown from Bangkok

Edited by Penrhyn on Tuesday 14th June 17:54

[Penrhyn]

Just came across this on YouTube
https://youtu.be/OTraCRQWFlc

[Fabric]

Pretty sure this is the Airbus Zephyr 8 being trialled in the US, it's been loitering at nearly 70k ft for at least a day now - cool looking thing.

https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/defenc...

[LotusOmega375D]

Don’t often spot an E-6B Mercury in Europe. This one’s over Portugal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury

[aeropilot]

LotusOmega375D said:

Don’t often spot an E-6B Mercury in Europe. This one’s over Portugal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury

Just taken off from the joint Spanish-USN base at Rota, which is where they usually operate out of when deploying to Europe, being USN aircraft.
You can usually spot one over Europe somewhere once every few months.

[jamesbilluk]

Couldn't see it due to cloud, but this made quite a noise.

[gotoPzero]

TF just flew over my house?

Blue and white colours single rotor helicopter, looked to have some sort of pods on the sides? (possibly armed?)

Sounded very much like a chinook but wasnt.

Was similar in size to A109? Maybe a bit bigger.

Shows on ADSB as just 0000.

Think it went into Barton?