Out in the garden enjoying the sunny evening and a 747 came over very low, heading SE towards Manchester, streams of fuel being dumped from both wingtips. We are not accustomed to big aircraft so we all went out and pointed at it. Straight on FlightRadar24 and we see that it’s LH404 from Frankfurt to New York, which has gone out over Galloway then done a quick turn over the sea and headed straight back. It was at 6000 feet over us here near Blackburn. It landed 10 minutes later straight in and stopped mid-runway. Immediately Twatter is alight with reports of a fire alarm in the front wheel bay and a full emergency at Manchester. However everything seems to be OK and I bet they’re refuelling and re-heating the frankfurters for the evening meal service.

Back to picking tomatoes now. Hey ho.

Not as exciting as Concorde over Clapham, and that was every day!
Bloody Frogs…

I’ve always wondered – where does the dumped fuel end up? A long flammable trail across the countryside, or dispersed in the air?

I’ve always wondered – where does the dumped fuel end up?

It gets canned and sold to binners.

Recently upgraded my flightradar24 app to the paid version so I can point my phone at planes to see where they have been/going to.

I do get some odd looks filming the sky.

What coloured anorak do you have?

Probably high-viz yellow…

Recently upgraded my flightradar24 app to the paid version so I can point my phone at planes to see where they have been/going to.

I like the idea of that! Does it work on the runway? A quick sprint and clamber aboard?

Yebbut don’t try to cling to the outside of the aircraft – they won’t open the door and let you in.

A quick sprint and clamber aboard?

A quick aim and fire

Questionable wheel well temperatures.

Oh suburbanreuben, you talking about days like these:



GOOD TIMES.

Is that a tiny can or are your hands huge?

Right into flightradar24 at the moment, had no coverage locally so I applied to flightradar24 to host their equipment and they sent me out the gear to do it, now no more black spot where I live, tracking upto 400 aircraft per day and getting upto 46000 hits to my antenna per day!