Plane Spotters Corner

[Taf]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...g-station.html

[Halcyon]

Originally Posted by DocDutch

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.

This was the RAF E3D Sentry ZH101 that was doing a practice diversion.
Call sign was NATO30

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So we've come to an end of an era...... XH558 will end her flying days this autumn.

If you've never seen a Vulcan fly......YOU MUST!

Check out the dates of displays below:

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/appearances.html


She'l be missed! I remember seeing her in the hangar at Bruntingthorpe and walking under the wings as she taxiid out.
Then the roar and whistle as she flies....AMAZING!

[Kymmy]

Sat myself round the back of Luton Airport today as it was warm with some sun and took these..

[Halcyon]

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!

[Kymmy]

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.

[DocDutch]

still nice shot Kymmy

[Kymmy]

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


Tow planes landing




Tow & Glider




Glider Landing

[Uncle Peter]

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.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

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

I did that at the joint services gliding club at Bister. Much prefered being towed up by there buldog tow plane than by the ground tow line.

[heero_yuy]

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.

Funnily it didn't grab me and I never took up flying seriously.

[Uncle Peter]

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.

*windmill type device that generates electrical power in the case of a serious power failure

[Kymmy]

Another interesting bits flying overhead towards duxford

CATALINA


Sally B - B17

[thenry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8mdH20qTQ

[Kymmy]

There seems to be something new every day to point the camera at.. Merlin just flew overhead

[Kymmy]

Just been past Shuttleworth on the bike and stopped to take these shots





















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https://vimeo.com/132642041

https://vimeo.com/132642040