Typhoons are leaving Coningsby, 8 so far
👍, looks good.
Yep looks like it’s getting busy on the east coast. 8 typhoons just took off from Coningsby. 3 Hercs, a globemaster and KC3 doing laps over the Norfolk coast.
And then the flypast itself was a right damp squib. 🙁
Coronation flypast 1953, 600 aircraft:
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And then the flypast itself was a right damp squib. 🙁
Thats putting it mildly it was pretty shit.
There are some shenanigans going on with aircraft trying to land at a very gusty Funchal airport in Madeira.
BA has two missed approaches so far and is weighing up its options
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4076cd
Live YT feed with ATC here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kfecmO_TVo&ab_channel=MadeiraAirportSpotting
I know the pilots train for this stuff constantly, but the passengers must be having kittens!
Heart in the mouth stuff!
3 Chinooks just went overhead in West Yorkshire
All I can see on the web is this Dutch military flight.
Reminder for tomorrow, Lancaster over Hendon and Lincolnshire as 80th memorial flight of Dambusters raid.
6 A10's just touched down at PIK, I missed them because I'm at home, boo!
It's a bit quieter at the minute now that the Dutch have gone home, a few videos of them on YouTube if you search Tac Blaze or Chinooks at Carlisle Airport. This is my favourite, those are public roads that I've ridden on in the bottom of the shot:
Does anyone know why a Chinook was hovering over West London (Heathrow/Northolt corridor) this afternoon? My daughter asked, as her neighbours came out to watch. It wasn’t showing on any of my apps.
There seem to be a bunch of Apache type helicopters and associate military vehicles temporarily based at Balado Airfield just outside Milnathort recently. Tonight there were a bunch of long-lens types pulled up along the A91 photographing them. Russians?
Lots of exercises at the moment. The B1s, B2s and I think U2s are back in the UK flying from Fairford.
Actually I've given misinformation, it's just B1s at the moment. Not the B2 or U2
The U2s are at Fairford also, fly out most weekdays all year round.
Great to hear the house rattle to the B1s going up at 9.30pm last night too! Love having them back at Fairford.
Is there any pattern to their flight times? Would love to see them take off/lane but presume it's just a waiting game?
If you are on Facebook, the Fairford Spotters Facebook page is great for timings. A lot of knowledgeable people on there.
Two B1s are currently out from last night on a 23 hour mission I believe. I think their activity should ramp up next week as there is a big NATO exercise.
The U2 usually goes up between 7-9am and returns 4-7pm each weekday. That's pretty ace to watch how quickly it climbs out of sight on take off.
On Wednesday 14th there's a 3-up Hercules flypast to mark the retirement of the aircraft at the end of the month (being replaced by the A400 Atlas).
Details and times here:
https://www.forces.net/technology/aircraft/where-and-when-watch-c-130j-hercules-retirement-flypast
Oooof:
Never seen one of those. They never did the uk airshows when I was a 80s kid (too new??).
C130J Flypast today. 3 ship covering quite a few RAF bases in the UK
This Saturday is the King's Birthday Flypast which seems to be more or less what the Coronation Flypast should have been but for the bad weather.
https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/press23/kingsbirthdayflypast2023.htm
An Apache flow over our house yesterday and I tracked it, assuming it had taken off from Leuchars (several miles away) but it hadn't... it appeared to have taken off from Balado Park Airstrip - just over the M90 from Kinross. It did a few loops over Fife and then, sure enough, returned to land at the same airfield.
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=43c93e
Didn't know that the Army Air Corps used civilian air fields, but makes sense for them to play at them!
Live mass take off of Typhoons at Coningsby
Now showing on flight tracker
The main players there being an EC35, the Lancaster and a Spitfire from the BBMF (might have been a Hurricane in the mix too), the 3 Hercs, a C17 Globemaster, a Poseidon P8 and 5 Typhoons, all coming into London at around 1000ft altitude. Rather better than Charlie got for his coronation😄
Two BAC strike masters just flew over North Bristol. Are Ecuador 🇪🇨 invading?
That'll no doubt be these https://www.nwmas.com/air-displays/ I'm only a few miles from Hawarden so see them all the time.
Two days ago we witnessed what I thought was approx. 6 No. F22 fighter jets fly over Lake Windermere. Is this right? Or were they F35 lightnings?
Either way they were impressive and noisy 👌
If they made themselves visible, you could look them up on the replay here https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?r
Air Force One inbound.
What's the other one just behind it? Airforce 2?
Thanks bikesandboots that website is fantastic. Checked it for time and date but no sign of the fast jets.
@didnthurt click the U button to filter to the interesting stuff
Cool, I'll check it out.
We saw three F15s today over Windermere. Quite a treat while we were walking around Wray Castle's grounds.
AF1 currently on its way to Lithuania.
Two Chinooks VERY low overhead, together with a police helicopter accompanying two green sea kings. Needless to say they did not appear on Flightradar and the skies were otherwise rather quiet overhead for a little while. This may be related to the above post 😉
The Met doing their bit on the way back
Things starting to slowly arrive at fairford ahead of this weekend&s airshow.
So, got buzzed by 2 twin tails passing low over the M6 around the Lake District today. Apart from the fact I nearly shat myself we couldn't pick them up on ADSB. They were flying low and doing some tight turning so no doubt training, what do we reckon, F15?
I didn't get a great look as I was driving but they looked like vertical tails which rules out a 22 and the wings looked less like a delta which makes me think F15 or even an SU27.
F15's landing at Lakenheath fly over my house most days, very rarely visible on ADSB. Also make a lot of noise!
Not quite military but check the track on the po-po plane at the golf Open.
At least one B2 Spirit just flew low over Gloucestershire, so I'm told. Must be heading to Fairford.
Just seen the two B2s over South Cerney going to Fairford. Mega low and rumbling
Lots of miltary jet operations in East Cambs & North Norfolk over the past week and bit. Much more than the usual activity out of Lakenheath and seem to be flying lower and faster than normal.
This week has seen lots of Top Gun stuff type over the North Sea:
And yesterday the Red Arrows were in Ayr:
Saw the Red Arrows very near mine on Friday, they were transiting to Blackpool via a couple of calling points. Got to the summit of a road climb and there was a small gaggle of folk there who'd all had the same idea!
After all of that, they didn't display at Southport Air Show on Saturday due a short but intense and very local downpour which rendered the runway at Blackpool too wet to use.
The Lancaster went by only a few miles from mine yesterday on its way to Southport but frankly it was far too hot for me to be bothered riding out to try and see it.
I was watching the Red Arrows taking off from Ayr earlier, as they made their way via Carlisle Airport (and over our house in Brampton) to the GNR. Their transponders appeared to be turned from Dumfries and Galloway. Any idea why?
Their transponders appeared to be turned from Dumfries and Galloway. Any idea why?
They transmit on MLAT - which is aircraft ID only.
MLAT needs multiple receivers to give a location. Military and small aircraft (and Loganair bizarrely) are MLAT. Bigger aircraft transmit on ADS-B which gives ID, location, speed etc and only needs 1 receiver..
ADSB-exchange takes MLAT data from enthusiasts but a gap in coverage can result in the aircraft disappearing. Note: FlightRadar takes adsb only.
I suspect this is what happened:
