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I am though.
One of my regular running routes is down the wee access road to the back of Atlantic house, nice n quiet for intervals.
Posted : 14/05/2020 12:22 pm
We had an old ATCO in Atlantic House, well retired now, but he used to own a second property (flat) just down Sherwood road way. Asked him if it’s available to rent short term and his reply was, “naw, I use the place for taking a shite”.
Posted : 14/05/2020 12:37 pm
There was an F-35 making very jagged shapes over Norfolk earlier this morning... also found that the key 'U' filters military or 'interesting' activity only!
Posted : 14/05/2020 12:58 pm
Pretty suspicious if you ask me. Denver airport's pretty much been shut down, that's the one shaped like a swastika.
You can't look at this and not wonder what's going on"
Posted : 14/05/2020 1:04 pm
All that is doing is showing you were the OS gridlines are. You just need a smaller, lower plane to draw the in between lines.
Posted : 14/05/2020 1:52 pm
I have seen a couple or so V22 Osprey flights over the past evenings, usually at about dusk. Coming east from the Hereford direction. Wonder where they have been
Brecon to Brize?
Posted : 14/05/2020 3:43 pm
Brecon to Brize
I am not sure where they were going to, but they were almost certainly coming from the general direction of the SAS base near Hereford. Painted dark colour or black with a red stripe round the tail. Flew right over our house at <200 ft up
As they do training in the Brecon Beacons, you might be right
Posted : 14/05/2020 3:49 pm
They’re based out of RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk
Posted : 14/05/2020 4:06 pm
Topic starter
We had an old ATCO in Atlantic House, well retired now, but he used to own a second property (flat) just down Sherwood road way. Asked him if it’s available to rent short term and his reply was, “naw, I use the place for taking a shite”.
Lol, the bogs at AH must be grim!
Posted : 14/05/2020 4:10 pm
Hmm, KC-135 over Ayrshire/D&G right now, in fact.
Posted : 14/05/2020 5:31 pm
Phil5556, do you know Sam Sinclair? We went through Bournemouth together and is a regular visitor down here.
Posted : 15/05/2020 9:20 am
Posted : 15/05/2020 2:32 pm
Wow, actually a U2 over Denmark right now at 60,000 ft !
Posted : 15/05/2020 3:32 pm
Was playing around on this site, what fun. If you order the altitude column there's currently something labelled U2 at 60,000ft- but then there's a German thing labelled TWR at 94,000ft...what would that be then...
Posted : 15/05/2020 4:00 pm
U2 at 60000ft over the North Sea right now!
Posted : 15/05/2020 4:03 pm
Inbound fairford?
Posted : 15/05/2020 4:14 pm
Oooo, nice spot
(edited post as previous spotted a U2 posts weren't showing)
Posted : 15/05/2020 4:33 pm
Its losing 7,500 ft/min, that seems pretty impressive to me.
Posted : 15/05/2020 4:35 pm
Descending a bit as it aims towards Stoke - might be landing Fairford so may loop around my part of the world on the way round
Posted : 15/05/2020 4:41 pm
I did watch a US KC tanker and an RAF C130 appear to what looked like refueling practice. KC landed at Mildenhall the other night.
Posted : 15/05/2020 4:48 pm
Cougar, I posted successfully using Chrome and Windows 10, but the formatting was all over the place. The post window was somewhere up in the right margin.
Posted : 15/05/2020 4:57 pm
Ah went south of Ledbury out of view
Posted : 15/05/2020 4:57 pm
on approach fairford now
Posted : 15/05/2020 5:12 pm
Cheers.
The formatting was so donald ducked that the edit links were non-functional, I'd to hack forum URLs together to fix it. It didn't occur to me that it was still actually possible to post, I just assumed you had some sort of browser combo that was unaffected by the glitch.
Thanks to those who replied to my question, as you were now.
Posted : 15/05/2020 5:13 pm
So come on plane type people, please tell - what can fly at 94,000 ft...it's still showing on there. Is this some sort of unmanned drone nav beacon, too low for a LEO satellite. Maybe its those aliens the'Donald was on about, they're coming people, stay safe, stay alert...
Edit: maybe it's Elon Musk showing off in the A12 he named his baby after....
Posted : 15/05/2020 5:36 pm
Weather balloon?
Posted : 15/05/2020 5:54 pm
Felix Baumgartner?
Posted : 15/05/2020 6:10 pm
I did some 'research':
from the CIA website on the AR71-A12 Oxcart:
"....By then, CORONA satellites were regularly launched to collect thousands of images worldwide each year, and although its imagery was less timely and of poorer resolution than that from the A-12 and SR-71, CORONA was safe from anti-aircraft missiles and much less provocative than aircraft overflights."
makes you think etc...
Posted : 15/05/2020 7:07 pm
That live tracker is immense. Never wonder what that is or where it's going again!
Posted : 15/05/2020 7:23 pm
Top Trumps. What's this bad boy, the X37B doing then? First one to spot it wins a prize.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52698133
Posted : 18/05/2020 10:42 am
A fast military jet just flew over our house and it ISN'T on the tracker so perhaps the Russians are prowling and this was business not playtime...
Posted : 18/05/2020 11:00 am
U2 just about to land at fairford.
Posted : 18/05/2020 11:59 am
What’s this bad boy, the X37B doing then?
Those chemtrails don't seed themselves you know, lot of lost ground to make up!
Posted : 18/05/2020 3:57 pm
The X37B just looks a bit naff like it was cobbled together out of spare bits and gaffer tape in some backroom by out-of-work and bored ex space shuttle engineers. Now the SR71 & X12...they were proper bits of kit, proper badass.
Posted : 18/05/2020 5:43 pm
U2 just about to land at fairford
Pretty sure I heard it taking off again some time very early this morning
Posted : 19/05/2020 9:47 am
Must have fixed it then.
Posted : 19/05/2020 12:41 pm
Topic starter
Must have fixed it then.
Replaced the left Filanji.
Posted : 19/05/2020 12:52 pm
US Airforce having fun at the moment. One tanker and six F16s enjoying the clearer skies
Posted : 19/05/2020 1:00 pm
I live pretty close to LBA, and have seen quite a few random military aircraft over the last few weeks, but the best of all was a Red Arrow doing a fast fly past then "giving it some" up the Wharfe valley towards Ilkley, wonderful stuff to see.
Posted : 19/05/2020 1:00 pm
Topic starter
Awacs out over North sea atm, a favourite of mine in an 'it shouldn't really work' kinda way. 🙂
Posted : 19/05/2020 1:02 pm
The X37B just looks a bit naff like it was cobbled together out of spare bits and gaffer tape in some backroom by out-of-work and bored ex space shuttle engineers. Now the SR71 & X12…they were proper bits of kit, proper badass.
Completely different job descriptions - the X37B is basically a space-going Transit, a pint-sized space shuttle doing routine ground-space operations with a variety of science and military projects autonomously. The SR71 was an ultra high-speed spook ship based on an ultra high-speed interceptor.
Posted : 19/05/2020 10:38 pm
Been watching a A400 doing touch and goes at Mildenham, 3 large circuits, now doing smaller ones. The first passed right overhead.
Must stop watching and do something.
Posted : 19/05/2020 11:30 pm
Looks like there’s something of interest in Kalingrad with signals gathering aircraft having a look from either side for the last few hours
Posted : 20/05/2020 9:02 am
Nobeerinthefridge
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Awacs out over North sea atm, a favourite of mine in an ‘it shouldn’t really work’ kinda way
Saw that at lossie the other night I think, thought it looked weird.
Jets out and about at 3am today...
Posted : 20/05/2020 9:09 am
Well **** knows what flew over me in the middle of the night! Mega loud and/or mega low! Staying about 10 miles SSE of RAF Fairford.
Posted : 20/05/2020 9:09 am
Topic starter
Typically, since I posted this thread, PIK has been back to sleepy hollow again!.
Posted : 20/05/2020 9:16 am
Lots of private aircraft 'p1ssing' about in the North West - i.e. joyflights (just meandering flightpaths). I few IOM flights, some cargo.
Posted : 20/05/2020 12:58 pm
SPITFIRE!
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Good spot!
Posted : 20/05/2020 1:39 pm
That website is immense. Far more interesting than all the things I should be doing. Can now see the route the Airlines takes from Heathrow going West and how surprisingly busy little airports like Gloucester are.
I wonder what the C130 flying at 150feet over Hereford might be doing 😉
Posted : 20/05/2020 2:13 pm
richmars
Been watching a A400 doing touch and goes at Mildenham, 3 large circuits, now doing smaller ones. The first passed right overhead.
Must stop watching and do something.
There's a C-17 Globemaster currently training out of Wittering (until Friday, I think). It went pretty much over our house yesterday.
Posted : 20/05/2020 2:23 pm
