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[brocola]

Seems like it’s 100% fatal god bless their souls. There’s a video posted on twitter from a nearby mining company’s CCTV showing the plane in a near vertical nose dive to the ground

 

[DuxDeluxe]

I find it interesting to see what’s thundering over us or off the coast. We get a lot of Coningsby traffic at night during the week.
It’s not often you see much military traffic at the weekends. It must be special training to put up a C1300 Herky Bird on a Saturday.

Same here. We are in Holton le Clay and get a lot of Donna Nook range traffic plus Biggles out on his daily jaunts from Coningsby, before returning home for tea and medals.

 

[2657]

Two flights out of USAF Base Area Moron this morning, 1st a Globemaster about half an hour ago and then a KC-46A Pegasus tanker 5 minutes ago.
Moron de la Frontera is SE of Seville, Chuck Yaeger was in command there for a while, there is a Starfighter on a plinth in the middle of a roundabout there.

 

[brocola]

Two flights out of USAF Base Area Moron this morning, 1st a Globemaster about half an hour ago and then a KC-46A Pegasus tanker 5 minutes ago.

Looks like FIAT30 and FIAT31 KC46s left Moron 8:53, now off Portugal.

I don’t think there are many of the new-ish KC46 tankers in Europe so far, they seem to still be ironing out the niggles, but maybe they’re having to bring more over to help the older tankers cope with all the thirsty invisible planes at the moment.

I believe it used to be possible to tell roughly what type of invisible planes were being refeulled by the type of tanker, whereas the KC46 is dual capable - boom and drogue.

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Yankee Biggles has been having noisy fun over donna nook this morning

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[Revolvor]

We are currently camped in a field midway between Fairford and Brize Norton. A Hercules C130 has been doing circuits and bumps. A B52 went directly overhead earlier, very low, and then headed North.

 

[PhilandMena]

We are currently camped in a field midway between Fairford and Brize Norton. A Hercules C130 has been doing circuits and bumps. A B52 went directly overhead earlier, very low, and then headed North.

Here it is doing circuits above the North sea.

 

[PhilandMena]

RAF on boarder patrol this morning too.

 

[PhilandMena]

Italians must have brought in supplies too. NATO in action.

 

[monzer]

Interesting flight path this guy is taking. Nice looking plane I think.

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[Ejaydee]

United airlines 777 Frankfurt to Houston, sqawking 7700 over UK, reversing course back to continent. (I cannot get the screen grab to insert in this message).

Having looked back at it, the plane is now (14:48hrs) heading due north! Very odd.

 

[monzer]

United airlines 777 Frankfurt to Houston, sqawking 7700 over UK, reversing course back to continent. (I cannot get the screen grab to insert in this message).

Having looked back at it, the plane is now (14:48hrs) heading due north! Very odd.

That is a bit strange. I'm guessing an emergency with the aircraft itself rather than a passenger as I would imagine they'd be landing at the nearest suitable airport if a passenger was ill.

 

[Ejaydee]

That is a bit strange. I'm guessing an emergency with the aircraft itself rather than a passenger as I would imagine they'd be landing at the nearest suitable airport if a passenger was ill.

I have just looked on Twitter and apparently the aircraft was dumping fuel over the North Sea, it is now reducing height and nearly back to Frankfurt.

 

[brocola]

Unknown callsign appeared over Delaware and looks like it’s on its way over the pond. Is it Biden Air Force 1 heading to the NATO meeting tomorrow?

 

[Ejaydee]

Not sure if it is the same aircraft, but I found (call sign) SAM674 also heading over the pond.

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[brocola]

I think SAM674 is a C32, commonly used for US vip transport, so probably the diplomatic hangers on for Bidens visit.

 

[Ejaydee]

According to the blurb on Flightradar it is a Boeing 757, but yes it could have the 'support party' on board. .

 

[brocola]

And GRIM99 is the E4B ‘Doomsday’ plane, providing a “highly survivable command, control and communications center to direct U.S. forces, execute emergency war orders and coordinate actions by civil authorities”

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[brocola]

According to the blurb on Flightradar it is a Boeing 757, but yes it could have the 'support party' on board. .

Yes, a C32 is basically a slightly militarised 757, sometimes called ‘Air Force Two’

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[Ejaydee]

Possibly not connected but there are two Stratotankers running up and down the length of Nova Scotia just behind Grim99 you mentioned (and which I failed to pick up)..

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[brocola]

Haha - that’ll be these two ETHYL tankers - probably topping up the escorts - or one refilling the other before it goes RTB

 

[brocola]

Big Bertha C5 Galaxy on its way back to USA after dropping something off in Germany yesterday. Equipment for Biden’s visit like his monster truck car? Or goodies for UA too big to fit into a C17?

 

[brocola]

This one looks more like AF1, trailed by another C32

 

[PhilandMena]

First time I've see Luxembourg involved and a sentry aircraft too.

 

[PhilandMena]

Black sea surveillance going on today too.

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[brocola]

First time I've see Luxembourg involved and a sentry aircraft too.

I'm learning all sorts as a result of this thread

Technically Luxembourg doesn't have an Air Force apart from one A400 and a few helicopters.

However, all the NATO E3 AWACS air craft (14?), which fly out of Geilenkirchen, Germany, have a Luxembourg civil registration and armed forces roundel. Never knew that...

Luxembourg Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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The NATO AWACS component has it's own website https://awacs.nato.int

 

[monzer]

Talk about hugging the border. I guess I would be pretty careful not to stray in to Ukraine either.

 

[brocola]

Something flying very high and fast over Norfolk/Suffolk. Not sure what it is - seems too fast for a U2 - normally they cruise at 400ish knots and I don’t think they can reach 760+. Service ceiling of a F15 or Typhoon is about 65,000ft, F16 slightly lower, so seems too high for a fighter.

Possible it’s being spoofed or reporting incorrect data?

 

[Phill D]

Something flying very high and fast over Norfolk/Suffolk. Not sure what it is - seems too fast for a U2 - normally they cruise at 400ish knots and I don’t think they can reach 760+. Service ceiling of a F15 or Typhoon is about 65,000ft, F16 slightly lower, so seems to high for a fighter.

Possible it’s being spoofed or reporting incorrect data?

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Could it be a Blackbird

 

[Orion]

Could it be a Blackbird

AFAIK they were retired from USAF service in 1998. Used by NASA for a little longer. Maybe they’ve got it’s ‘successor’ the SR-72 off the blocks a bit earlier than planned!

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