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This would have made for some interesting viewing on that website:
I don’t need to know that and wonder why but I am!
Just down the road is RAF Shawbury which is where the military (all branches) do their initial helicopter training.
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.......
Phil are you another Atlantic House resident?
No, Glasgow airport.
I am though.
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.
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”.
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!
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"
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.
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?
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
They’re based out of RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk
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!
Phil5556, do you know Sam Sinclair? We went through Bournemouth together and is a regular visitor down here.
Wow, actually a U2 over Denmark right now at 60,000 ft !
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...
U2 at 60000ft over the North Sea right now!
Inbound fairford?
Oooo, nice spot
(edited post as previous spotted a U2 posts weren't showing)
Its losing 7,500 ft/min, that seems pretty impressive to me.
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
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.
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.
Ah went south of Ledbury out of view
on approach fairford now
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.
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....
Weather balloon?
Felix Baumgartner?
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...
That live tracker is immense. Never wonder what that is or where it's going again!
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
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...
U2 just about to land at fairford.
What’s this bad boy, the X37B doing then?
Those chemtrails don't seed themselves you know, lot of lost ground to make up!
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.
U2 just about to land at fairford
Pretty sure I heard it taking off again some time very early this morning
Must have fixed it then.
Must have fixed it then.
Replaced the left Filanji.
US Airforce having fun at the moment. One tanker and six F16s enjoying the clearer skies
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.