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[pappajohn]

Police helicopter replacement.
Can get to remote corner of county faster and stay on site for longer.

Cheers James

Bugger to land on a farm track or in a crop field though.....and they don't hover too well

 

[Wee Bold Davy]

2 Apaches heading south near Sutton Coldfield towards BHX. Looks like they've been playing east of Stafford

OMG I thought it was just aircraft it monitored. John Wayne would have loved this

 

[Clarky]

2 Apaches heading south near Sutton Coldfield towards BHX. Looks like they've been playing east of Stafford

Your two Apaches are circling Colchester at the moment.

Richard.

 

[Clarky]

2 Apaches heading south near Sutton Coldfield towards BHX. Looks like they've been playing east of Stafford

Both Apaches, Viper 1 & 2, now inbound Rwy 23 at Wattisham.
Viper 2 has just turned over our house onto approach and Viper 1 can just be heard in the distance on a 5 mile trail.

Home in time for tea and medals.

Richard.

 

[monzer]

Excellent timing by my good self there as I flicked on the flight radar app I saw a McDonnell Douglas F-15E Eagle looking like it was heading for Edinburgh. Quickly popped outside and saw 3 of them flying right over head. 2 obviously with transponders off. Boy they were motoring.

I'm fair trickett

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[monzer]

Well they went as far as Fort William, turned and came back so I went out again to try and see them. Heard them but couldn't clock them this time

 

[monzer]

There's a Kuwait to JFK flight called a general emergency above Skegness. Looks like it's diverting to London.

Skegness isn't that bad is it?

 

[David and Sally]

I see it. Interesting. Is there anywhere where the reasons are logged?

 

[brocola]

Probably coincidence but there’s also a Kuwait Air Force C17 circling over the Cotswolds at the moment. Maybe headed for Brize ?

 

[monzer]

I see it. Interesting. Is there anywhere where the reasons are logged?

I'm sure there is but my level of aviation geekyness doesn't stretch that far. I do know most of the times planes squawk the 7700 (general emergency) code it is not a serious matter. Anything from a fault error code in the cockpit to a medical issue with a passenger.

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[monzer]

Probably coincidence but there’s also a Kuwait Air Force C17 circling over the Cotswolds at the moment. Maybe headed for Brize ?

That's interesting

 

[Janine]

Typhoon in trouble heading straight for Jim's place

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Typhoon in trouble heading straight for Jim's place

Going straight back to Coningsby. Happened to be watching when it turned red

 

[Janine]

Going straight back to Coningsby. Happened to be watching when it turned red

Phew! The annihilation of our illustrious leader doesn't bear thinking about!

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Phew! The annihilation of our illustrious leader doesn't bear thinking about!

The pilot probably heard that Siân was home and decided that it wasn’t worth it

We get quite a lot of military activity overhead, much of it related to Donna Nook bombing range not far away, so always interesting to see what it is

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[DuxDeluxe]

There were a couple of F15’s playing offshore earlier at 41000 feet and 545 knots…..

Just had a look and at that altitude it equates to Mach 0.95………

 

[Wee Bold Davy]

Typhoon in trouble heading straight for Jim's place

Maybe trying to force Jim to stop old-mo publishing his jokes

 

[Clipgate]

Ukraine bound need to know!

 

[old-mo]

Maybe trying to force Jim to stop old-mo publishing his jokes

He would not dare..!!!!!

Would he....

 

[monzer]

Making circles up my way....

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[Janine]

Anyone else watching the last Airbus A380 out of Hamburg? He's doing a few fly-pasts.....

 

[2657]

Lots of activity inbound and US bound to and from the US Naval base at Rota near Cadiz over the last week.
Three in bound transports this morning, last week two carrier based transports, Grumman Greyhounds, followed each other in.At least 2 transport flights daily, we can hear them from our campsite near Tavira, the different noises from the jets and turbo prop's is easy to identify.
Strengthening the US Mediterranean fleet in readiness for a potential conflict in Ukraine?

 

[monzer]

Nice looking RAF plane doing the rounds over Lossiemouth right now...

 

[Figaro]

Making circles up my way....

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Ooh, that's a very neat circle, will that be by manual input or is a computer responsible for the geometry ?

 

[bigwood]

I often see those coming out of Waddington. I think they are used for training of aircrews.

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[brocola]

Apparently Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance. God that’s a mouthful

Shadow R1

See more from the Royal Air Force

www.raf.mod.uk

 

[bigwood]

Thats my theory blown but thinking about them flying from Waddington that makes more sense with the connection to the drone control centre there.

 

[Diabalo]

The coast guard is flying patterns up the strait of Dover at the moment

 

[bigwood]

I see the flyboys have gone home for Christmas. There won’t be much military traffic until the NewYear now.
When I was stationed in Germany it was a standing joke that the Russians could invade Wednesday afternoon or from Friday lunch time until Monday or between Christmas and NewYear because there would be nobody around.

 

[daveandsan]

I see the flyboys have gone home for Christmas. There won’t be much military traffic until the NewYear now.

You hope.

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