Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Just because the Indian Navy went for the cheaper Rafale it doesn't mean that it couldn't be developed for the UK carriers.. I know that I'd rather have a carrier based typhoon than a F-35 or the Rafale ;)

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Well the rafale is pretty decent but wouldn't mind the carrier version of the gripen either

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Only reason why India went for the Rafale over the Typhoon is costs.. They're already running Mirage 2000's and there's a lot of cross-over in tech/training/etc..

That's one of the reasons as to why the Tyhoon would be a great choice for the navy (with the other being that it's far more capable than the Rafale) in that in terms of current training/tech/longterm costs a carrier version would not only be capable but also workable/affordable in the long term.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

I saw this coming in today on Mode S.. I wasn;t though aware of why it was here until I read this great story

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-17271619

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Ah Mode S bring back memorys of programming the proms in them :D

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Recently even the typhoons are using Mode S.. Great tracking them.. (as well as H47/H64/Pumas/Police Helis/etc...etc..etc... )

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

My work was with the radar stations

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Software I've got even tracks the beams based on the rotations and pings from the known aircraft positions and then uses that to track unknown pings :)

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

If any of you are near East Midlands, the Formula 1 747 charters are coming in on Friday so good time to head up if you want to spot:

Cargolux B747-800F (Arr: 09:25 Dep: 11:25)

Cargolux B747-400F (Arr: 13:35 Dep: 15:25)

Air France Cargo B744 (Arr: 16:30 Dep: 19:30)

Cathay Pacific Cargo B747-400F (Arr: 20:05 Dep: 22:05)

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Do you have the hex codes for the aircraft?

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Sorry, nope.... thats all I have.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Looks the STOVL F35 might be back on the cards...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17437272

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Our carrier strategy is in less of a mess than the BBC article that tried to explain it ... What an awful, garbled piece of journalism that was. Why the hack couldn't just stick with the common Type-A, Type-B, Type-C convention widely used over many years for the Conventional, STOVL and carrier variants of the F35 is beyond me.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

They're stupid if they go back to the f-35B variant.. the weight addition and reduced payload/range/agility and the distinct lack of super cruise is really bad.. Most of the industry experts have suggested that this so called 5th Gen fighter is nothing of the sort..

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Amazing video of an Apache out of control..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17481023

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Pretty sure I've just been over-flown by a pair of F-22s, though I have no idea what they would be doing around Loch Lomond. The camera's never handy when you need it ...

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

There's an exercise on at the moment Chris, I think this just about covers your area

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Ab...yingArea16.htm

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

That exercise wouldn't have F22's participating.. More than likely to be doing practice for Joint Warrior which is a major exercise taking place on the 16th to the 26th April off the Scottish coast. Be aware Chris is that if you have a GPS you may find problems with it during the exercise if you live far enough north.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...lands-17487375

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

My bike GPS was going haywire (locating satellites) the other day when we were out on the trails but this was down near Chester and I wouldn't have thought any jamming activities would affect this far South.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Very lucky crew to survive

---------- Post added at 13:13 ---------- Previous post was at 13:10 ----------

OMG, how are people going to manage? Nobody has maps any more;)

Actually being serious my drivers carry very few maps. They have a Smartnav system, and a Garmin as a backup

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

BBC news coverage of the F18 crash in Virginia Beach

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17640618

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

An AAIB report says that there was a fuel supply problem which caused the crash in July last year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ester-17678795

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Interesting, if it ever happens:
Link

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereven...hester-airport

Will be busy at the airport that day.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

It's due to visit 4 airports on it's UK tour

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Replacements for the Harriers? :dunce:

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

I was told by a guy at work that the A380 will be coming to Stansted.

It is on the A380 direvert approved list.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

RAF Boeing Sentry E3Ds grounded:
Link

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

A Virgin aircraft's just made an emergency landing at Gatwick after smoke was reported in the cabin.

If it's the regular flight then it was G-VSXY which is an airbus 330, gatwick's now shut to flights for a bit..

---------- Post added at 13:25 ---------- Previous post was at 13:25 ----------

Link to story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-17730154

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

I have been reading the thread over the last couple of day, and although not really a spotter, I do like aviation its mainly old warbirds and military and generally seen through a viewfinder. Below are some example images

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/04/31.jpg
Hawker Hurricane Mk2b by martipa, on Flickr

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/04/32.jpg
McDonnell Douglas Boeing F15E Strike Eagle by martipa, on Flickr

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/04/33.jpg
Panavia Tornado GR4 by martipa, on Flickr

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/04/34.jpg
McDonnell Douglas Boeing F15E Strike Eagle by martipa, on Flickr

Rgds Paul

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Excellent Photos! :tu:

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

A chance to see the Dreamliner at Manchester from Monday. Its landing about 6pm.
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereven...787-dreamliner

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Looks good.
I remember when I went to see the 787 do a fly past over EMA and Derby back in 2010.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/04/35.jpg

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/04/36.jpg

How haven't I seen this thread before lol!!!

I love planes,

My favourite at the moment is the A380 but I wanna try out one of those new 787 dreamliners

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

:welcome: to the forums.

How do you get a seat to take those shots and what in?

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

especially that shot of the Eagle you got there

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Hi guys,

The Hurricane shot was taken at the Fly to the Past airshow at Kiddlington/Oxford Airport last year. The Tornado and F15 Eagle shots were taken from the side of a hill in the Welsh Valleys

Paul

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Excellent photo's, well done :tu:

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

The UK's fisrt F35b has flown, i thought we were now going for the C variant which had longer range and more carrying capacity, still not sure about the aircraft although warming to it.

http://www.key.aero/view_news.asp?ID...ction=military

---------- Post added at 06:26 ---------- Previous post was at 06:25 ----------

Thank you for the comments on the photos

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

You not seen this before Cobby??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iengqS_KR4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7zHlOi4T4

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

The Oxford Airport Fly to the Past show is a lovely themed show with a big screen so you don't have to panic about getting a decent spot to view the flying. Children go free too, so a great family event. Linky

martipa will be on the Welsh hills plane spotting at the end of May :rofl:

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

No, I hadn't, excellent!

Whilst searching for a video of an extremely low Hunter pass that I downloaded once & lost, I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_...ridge_incident

Never heard of it before!

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

:rofl: Absolutely brilliant :rofl:

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

They should have done that with the sea harrier or even the harrier itself

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Pass the sick bag!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17863501

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

I'm sure there were plenty of Go Arounds that day then.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

New pants moments. Been in an aborted landing before and didn't like it that much but saying that wouldn't like any of those landings that were done

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

A great report I missed last week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17843764

I didn't know that Canberras were still in active service in the early 2000s

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

I can actually say that I have worked on that aircraft when I was an Avionics Corporal at RAF Wyton until 1991.

And according to this http://www.raf.mod.uk/organisation/39squadron.cfm the PR9's were still going strong until 2006.

We were almost involved in the 1st Gulf War but at that time they couldn't guarantee the safety of the aircraft or crew.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

It will be a Quantas A380 bringing the Aussie Olympic team to Stansted.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

One of the new Sukhoi Superjet 100s is missing after leaving Jakarta, it vanished from radar less than an hour after takeoff..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18004097

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

I really would not like to fly on a Russian plane

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

The series only just performed it's first commercial passenger flight last month :rolleyes: If it's a technical issue then this may cripple Sukhoi..

---------- Post added at 15:26 ---------- Previous post was at 15:25 ----------

According to Wiki the flight was a demonstration flight..

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

And guess what they do.. Sign off on the order for F35Bs (that's the ski-jump version)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18008171

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

I think the decision has been more or less forced, sadly, thanks to decisions taken in office by Labour. The decision to build two ma-hoosive penis extension supercarriers and then equip them with fighters designed for light carriers (i.e. the Invincible class, one of which is still slated to remain rather pointlessly in service, sans aircraft, until 2014) was always rather batty. Liam Fox saw the logic of equipping supercarriers with aircraft designed to get the maximum benefit of their size and pursued orders for F35-C instead, accompanied with a plan to retro-fit the cats and traps to the carriers, but the fact is, retro-fitting that kit was always going to be more expensive than building it into the design from the drawing board and the cost has gone through the roof. The country can barely afford the carriers as it is; something had to give and I think they have now made the best of a bad job.

What should have happened from the outset was a decision either to build a new generation of light carriers with F35-Bs embarked, or one or two new supercarriers with F35-Cs and the attendant catapults and arrestors. Why Labour decided to mismatch STOVL aircraft with a supercarrier runway is anybody's guess, but now we're stuck with it.

The only possible consolation is that the most famous supercarrier of them all, USS Enterprise, has been in service now for more than 50 years. If our new QE-class carriers have anything like that longevity, they should live to see economically happier times and the next generation of aircraft to be stationed aboard them might just be 'proper' carrier fighters.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

They've found the Sukhoi's crash site from the air, no word yet on the fate of the crew/passengers..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18015534

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

World War II fighter found in Egyptian desert

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18038650

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

I really hope they can get it back to the Uk and a museum before people go pulling it to pieces.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Indeed. But now they have told everyone its there you can bet they are already stripping it.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Fascinating precautions bringing in the Olympic flame:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18006750

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

What a total waste of time, money and effort. I really cannot understand this obsession with the Olympic flame. I'm sure that most people have a box of matches in reserve :)

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

One plane apparently chasing another over Loch Lomond this morning ...

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1338208695

... until a second shot at full zoom illustrates the vertical separation by capturing the shadow of the second plane on the contrail of the first:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1338208695

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Nice pic Chris.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Two knackered engines on the vulcan so that's grounded for a bit..


:doh: :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzkQ7sSpATU

---------- Post added at 08:48 ---------- Previous post was at 08:47 ----------

Bags of silica used to keep the engines dry were not removed for a start-up so two sandblasted engines :(

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Oh no thats not good, Hope they get it sorted for the big airshows coming up.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

As some of you know the company I work for helped get this plane in the air, and I have some photos & a video to post (I think from it maiden flight), the video is to big to upload hear so I'll look at other options.

I'll try and post over the long weekend.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

That sounds great Hom3r.
Look forward to seeeing it.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Here are the pics, The guy in the last picture was the man in charge of getting the landing gear working (now retired)

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Thought i'd post a few shots from my latest trip to wales.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/06/64.jpg
Lockheed C130J Hercules by martipa, on Flickr

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/06/65.jpg
McDonnall Douglas Boeing F15E Strike Eagle by martipa, on Flickr

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/06/66.jpg
Bae Hawk T1 by martipa, on Flickr

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/06/67.jpg
Eurofighter Typhoon 29 Sqn by martipa, on Flickr

Rgds Paul

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Just had the lancaster transiting over Ipswitch heading for the Thames estuary, probably where the hold is for the queens jubilee flypast

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Some pics from work (C130), for size the Main Wheels are about 5ft high, take 20 mins to fill with nitrogen

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Nice to see the BOBMF DC3 leading the flypast today. It tends to get over shadowed by the Spitfire/Hurricanes/Lancaster.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Fantastic in-plane footage from the Lancaster and also one of the spitfires during the Jubilee Flypast

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18334001

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

16 Spitfires flying together. Turn the volume up and get the hairs sticking up on the back of your neck.


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=27b_1339867680

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

What a stunning sight :)

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

what a lovely sound that makes :D

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

I think this is a Merlin engine in that Mustang...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c8_1340057291

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Yep it's a 1944 model so definitely a Merlin.. Weird really as I saw that plane in a film last night (Harts War)

More history/details on it here

http://www.ferociousfrankie.com/history.html

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Watch Thomson 767 get new livery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8MkY...ature=youtu.be

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

RIP Trevor Roche who died today flying a vintage DH53 at Shuttleworth which is only about 10 miles north of me.. The crash subsequently forced the cancellation of the air display due today.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-airshow.html

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...012/07/111.jpg

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

at the armed forces weekend at Wollaton Hall Nottingham I saw the Dakota (C47-Skytrain) doing a fly past but unfortunately I didnt have my camera at hand as I had to get some food for the Mrs and myself and was stuck in the queue for too long :( :( but what a beautiful plane that was :)

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Two tornados down in Scotland :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...lands-18692532

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

A very rare flyby this...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ff2_1341313962

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

That was the June 2009 show at Volkel

Here's another view from a different angle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzM2bpCGjLk

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

They've called off the search for the two missing crewmen

:(

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

One of the rescued crewmen has also died..

:(

A sad time for the people and families involved..

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Very sad for everyone close to them, friends and family. I'll be saying a prayer for them all.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

With the A400M RAF order still going through and today news of an order for an A400M simulator here's some great video of the new aircraft

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u64TKSbPYdw

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Impressive video - for those, like me who were wondering about MSN 5:

MSN 5 was due to be used for tests as well, but as it would only have been available for the last six months of the campaign it was decided to suspend its construction because the company wanted to have the final aircraft in the flight test programme to be equivalent to subsequent production aircraft. This will also allow improvements that result from the first year of flight test to be integrated on the aircraft.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

For Red Arrow fans a great slideshow is on the BBC website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-18551461

Please note though that it also does cover the sad loss of Flt Lt Jon Egging and Flt Lt Sean James

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

3 plane near miss at DCA (well, not that near actually)...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19099963

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Avro Vulcan XH558 Beachy Head flypasts 12th of August 2012

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7cb_1345062432

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Incredible

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Wow, I would have so liked to be there.
I really need to get down somewhere to se the Vulcan flying.

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

you know someone who worked on them;)

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

I do indeed ;)

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

You are not that far from Southport. The Southport airshow is on sept 8th and 9th and the Vulcan is making an appearance on the sunday 9th
http://www.visitsouthport.com/whats-on/air-show/

Re: Plane Spotters Corner
 

Some amazing footage of low level Buccaneer passes in this compilation, especially at 00:30 - 00:45 & 03:48!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Btdi8qNutw

---------- Post added at 22:06 ---------- Previous post was at 21:45 ----------

Another shot of an extremely low level Buccaneer pass:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/09/53.jpg

Taken from Lower than a Snake's Belly in a Wagon Rut