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No Vulcan for the Air Tattoo.
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Anyone down Fairford way keep your eyes peeled over the next couple of weeks. As of today there are 3x B52s participating in Baltic Operations 2014 temporarily on station.
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10 Years of the War Birds at West Malling Aerodrome - those were the days. Now it is a bloody awful posh estate. Anybody had the pleasure of going there. I live only 2 miles away.
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Heads-up folks in the West: Couple of B2's have now arrived at Fairford for Baltops 2014.
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impressive landing :) saw it on the Beeb as well Cobby
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"A train derailment in Montana this week damaged a shipment of jetliner fuselages and other large parts on its way to Boeing Co factories in Washington state from Spirit Aerosystems, Boeing said on Saturday"
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Heads up for the Shoreham airshow at the end of August and a visit by the Avro Vulcan on Saturday 30th.
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This is going to get out of control. There are numerous reports that it was shot down.
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This is crazy. More reports of it being shot down. With MH370 something clearly isnt right here.
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How can the disappearance / crash / hijacking by the CIA and/or space aliens be in any way connected to being shot down while overflying an active war zone?
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An aircraft has crashed on to the runway at the Royal Navy Culdrose Air Day. The pilot of the Royal Navy Sea Fury walked away from the wreckage uninjured. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-28594569 |
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such a shame but hopefully that plane will be able to fly again
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Military jets escort passenger plane to Manchester airport
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They flew in to Manchester over our house. The noise was incredibly loud. Not been a plane go over since.
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Ex-RAF friend of mine took this picture in Lincoln recently - Vulcan, Lancaster, and not sure what the 3rd plane is (might be a Hawk), flew over Lincoln.
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And another - 2 Lancs and a Vulcan.
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Picture of Lancaster bomber flying over Dobcross nr Saddleworth.
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Avro Sisters flight from inside a Lancaster
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Walking back from the pub this afternoon we had two Lancasters (I think) flying in formation and pretty low. Too quick to get a picture though but a magnificent sight and sound. :)
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A McDonnell Douglas F-15D Eagle from RAF Lakenheath has crashed in Licolnshire. The pilot ejected safely.
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RAF Jets Threaten To Shoot Down Cargo Plane
I heard nowt, as the jets went "loud" over land. http://news.sky.com/story/1362888/ra...wn-cargo-plane http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29823148 |
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That plane is just a beaut Taf...just wish it was still flying
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“Family flight” – Five A350 XWBs together in flight
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I think it might be a bit gusty up in the Western Isles. :eek:
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Germanwings flight GWI18G crashes in the Alps, en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. A320 with 148 people on board.
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Strange that they wouldn't have tried to turn away from the mountains for a crash landing. No distress call either, perhaps a complete failure of all communication & control sytems?
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Pilot incapacitation seems to be the hot topic on flight forums.
Very sad incident especially with all the exchange students on there. Very sad too that sick jokes are in evidence already. :( |
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Sick jokes already - what if it was one of their loved ones/friends who died.
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Getting back onto the plane spotting side..
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Just saw a ww2 fighter going that way (still waiting for camera to be delivered later this week so no pics) only got a glimpse but short and stubby with typical north american style wing profile. I'm guessing at a hellcat or similar.
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There has been an unmarked black helicopter buzzing around the Cardiff area for most of the day.
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what camera did you use Kymmy as that is very clear
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Sony HX400V
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anybody any ideas on why an AWACS was hanging around Loughborough around 5pm today??? spotted it about 3 times around 300 meters high if not lower.
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It's common to see them in holding patterns round there, probably training.
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at 1 stage I thought it was about to land at EMA but I was nearly home then and too far away to see it properly.
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Do a google on AWACS LOUGHBOROUGH and you'll see that it's been doing it for years
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Probably ILS approach training at EMA. They do it up here from time to time: A few circuits then back off to Waddo.
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Sat myself round the back of Luton Airport today as it was warm with some sun and took these..
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My local airport has a lot of Cargo and this big beast was in yesterday too.
Not as big as the bigger brother 225 but still huge! http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1432891113 http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1432891113 |
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Keep getting these crossing overhead.. Hard to take a frontal shot as by the time you hear them and grab the camera they've already passed.
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still nice shot Kymmy :)
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Too nice a day to stay in so popped out for a ride to Dunstable downs, unfortunately the gliders themselves were far and high but a lot of other airfield activity.
Gliding Club https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/06/16.jpg Tow planes landing https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/06/17.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/06/18.jpg Tow & Glider https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/06/19.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/06/20.jpg Glider Landing https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/06/21.jpg |
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Afternoon Easyjet to Paris just declared an emergency and turned back to Liverpool. Flew over my house sounding very rough indeed. Thankfully safely on the ground - bird strike I guess.
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Years ago, I was only 11, my father who was a gliding instructor at Tangmere had taught me enough that I was able to ascend on the winch, drop the line, fly the circuit and land without his aid. I remember them putting in loads of weights at the front where I was to balance the craft. These weren't the elegant gliders of today but wood and canvas covered RAF ones.
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Ouch - the mayday on the Easyjet out of Liverpool JLA today was apparently a total loss of electrical power just after takeoff - not the sort of thing you want to happen on a modern fly-by-wire aircraft. The RAT (Ram Air Turbine*) was deployed on the way back in hence the strange noises.
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Another interesting bits flying overhead towards duxford
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There seems to be something new every day to point the camera at.. Merlin just flew overhead
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Just been past Shuttleworth on the bike and stopped to take these shots
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Probably irrelevant to this thread but I'd rather post here first.
Time of occurrence: 23:47 There were 4 objects in very close proximity of each other at a very high altitude in Hartlepool. I am certain at least one was a plane and flew southbound towards Teesside. It gets strange however, the other three start performing some pretty agile turns rapidly in formation similar to Orion's belt. They flew in this formation for around 4 seconds before splitting off and all heading at a decent distance apart towards the hartlepool coast. TCX3314 / TCX45YB Thomas Cook Airlines is showing up on Flight Radar and would be southbound flight I seen. Do military aircraft show up? There was aircraft noise as expected but it went with the Thomas Cook 757. The other three omitted nothing. Not a UFO fanatic, just wondering if anyone could shed some light on what I just seen? Too high to hear and as simple as an escort of some kind? |
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Military aircraft do not normally broadcast the protocol which identifies position, altitude and speed (ads-b). Actually neither do many private aircraft, executive jets and short-haul prop liners
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That's pretty good. Makes complete sense too, I'd be inclined to be almost certain that's what I saw. They did nothing modern day tech isn't capable of and it explains perfectly why they'd break off just before the coast.
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Fairly low, almost certain it's these https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/07/35.jpg
Colours black and gold. Mostly black. Follow literally the same plan daily, business jets on the same route daily? Just found it weird to have them in formation. The dual turbine engine at the back is the giveaway though. |
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Never seen the RAF do it as they hex code is programmed into the firmware and doesn't t change...
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Not a good few days for small aircraft... Firstly the small biz jet at Blackebush Airport which crashed into BAC's carpark. Then a Gnat at Oulton park has crashed just over an hour ago and now rumours of a spitfire incident at Biggin hill though supposedly not a bad incident.
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Had my first flight experience today, a Christmas present courtesy of my wife. Amazing, 30 minutes on ground instruction followed by one hour in the air. I thought it would be 'OK we're up to altitude, take the stick for 15 minutes and fly straight and level'. Nothing like. Apart from take off, the first 5 minutes and landing the instructor's hands were never on the stick. I flew it all! Very demanding, but also exciting. Luckily she's less of a back seat driver in the air than on the ground...
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Moths @Woburn is on the 15/16th August. I'm going on the Saturday. Will post some pics later that day
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A great day out yesterday at the Moths @ Woburn meet.
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XH558 is doing the Southport Air Show on 19th September
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nice quality shot this.... but glad I wasn't on that plane.
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Yet another crash at an airshow. A hawker Hunter has crashed onto several vehicles on the A27 just outside of Shoreham Airport where the airshow was being held
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