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  • Plane spotters, what was that fancy jet above Llandegla/north Wales today (lunch
  • rockhopper70
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    Spotted somewhat too late by my son as we went up 3 mile climb, causing him to ride into a ditch!
    Looked rather unconventional, wings and engines all at the rear?
    He’s very curious what it was.

    scotroutes
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    A10?

    UncleFred
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    CaptainFlashheart
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    A10 was my first thought as well.

    rockhopper70
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    Not an a10 I don’t think, the front end looked like a dolphin head/nose from the side.

    rockhopper70
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    That avanti ego is there or thereabouts…

    captainsasquatch
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    Oddest plane you’ll see in thta part of the world is the Beluga.

    scotroutes
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    captainsasquatch
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    CaptainFlashheart
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    Beech Starship, maybe?

    *Edit – Beaten to it! That’ll teach me for going down a plane-spotting clickhole!

    Rorschach
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    Baby Robin?

    nickc
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    Reaper Drone?

    matt_outandabout
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    That reaper, clearly out improve Barmouth sea front….

    Rorschach
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    The only sure way to improve Barmouth seafront
    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q[/video]

    shermer75
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    That is just weird!!

    chewkw
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    My current favourite:

    North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco

    The one below is OV-10G+ Bronco light combat aircraft

    timc
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    The Beluga was in the air late morning so could well have been that!

    Teetosugars
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    It was the Beluga carrying Airbus wings out to Toulouse.

    Bustaspoke
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    As Teetosugars says,flying Guppy is a common sight over there.
    Airbus have a plant down the road at Broughton.

    captainsasquatch
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    Airbus have a plant down the road at Broughton.

    As do Raytheon.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    wings and engines all at the rear

    Not a Beluga, then.

    captainsasquatch
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    Not a Beluga, then.

    Not an a10 I don’t think, the front end looked like a dolphin head/nose from the side.

    Greater likelyhood of it being the A300-600ST, aka the Beluga because it looks like, well, a beluga whale, which replaced the Guppy some years ago. The Beluga flies in most days around lunchtime and just hangs in the air, it would have been low enough over Llandegla to catch attention.

    CountZero
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    Probably not a Super Guppy then…

    BFITH
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    causing him to ride into a ditch!

    Footage?

    How was deggers? crackin day for it…..

    smartay
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    About a week a go F16 type low level over Nercwys woods and on towards Llandegla

    captainsasquatch
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    How was deggers? crackin day for it…..

    Deggers? 😆

    captainsasquatch
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    So, what the bloody hell was it?

    Kato
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    My money will be on a Sentinel

    Kato
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    As do Raytheon

    who make the Sentinel 😀

    km79
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    For some reason that airbus beluga plane gives me the heebie jeebies.

    captainsasquatch
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    For some reason that airbus beluga plane gives me the heebie jeebies.

    It’s one of my favourite planes in the air, it appears to hang in the air as it looks as if it’s going so slowly. It’s incedible.

    tymbian
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    Diggers = Llandegla

    eat_more_cheese
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    I’m guessing it was fairly low and fast given your lad fell off. Rules out the Beluga etc. I’m betting it’s a Falcon 20 used as targets for the Hawks etc for training in the fast jet areas

    And in Wales (probably)….

    captainsasquatch
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    Diggers = Llandegla

    For people who can’t say Llan? 😆

    Rorschach
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    For people who can’t say Llan?

    ‘Eiiiiiiii Landeadly…..it’s bosssss’

    eat_more_cheese
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    andysmiff1
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    ^

    I used to fix them! (Needed a lot of maintenance too – they are used pretty heavily!)

    Dassault Falcon 20 – quite heavily modified, used for target towing and electronic warfare training (with hawks)

    A

    rockhopper70
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    Thanks for the pointers here.
    I didn’t get a great view of it as once I’d pulled the boy from the ditch it was quite a way away. It another rider coming past while we were looking at it did comment that it isn’t amazing that it stays in the air so maybe it was the beluga.

    smartay
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    Local website, I think deeside.com or wrexham.com, looks l7ke Broughton have picked up a contract to services F type, no not the Jaguar car!!!!

    geetee1972
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    That Beluga reminds me of a Reeves and Mortimer sketch:

    Separated at birth?

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