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Riding up the Horseshoe Pass near Llangollen, everyone was looking up to the sky as a large white aircraft ]flew over.

It was big white, appeared to be double decker, a very distinctive rear end with Hercules type back and tail fins similar ish to the pic below. I was a bit short of breat so can't recall if it was prop or jet but think it was jet.

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Posted : 30/08/2017 7:25 pm
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Usually when people think "a bit Hercules", it's a A400M. They do make a rather interesting/different noise as well.

However, if it was jet, rather than prop, perhaps a C17?


 
Posted : 30/08/2017 7:29 pm
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A400 is turboprop.

Perhaps a C-17 Globemaster?


 
Posted : 30/08/2017 7:30 pm
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(Was editing, Flashinthepan!)


 
Posted : 30/08/2017 7:33 pm
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Beluga?

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The Airbus factory is in Broughton near the North Wales border so reckon that could be favourite.


 
Posted : 30/08/2017 7:34 pm
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Crafty edit CFH or am I losing my marbles?


 
Posted : 30/08/2017 7:35 pm
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Coyote wins

That's the one !


 
Posted : 30/08/2017 7:42 pm
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Good spot, we used to see the Super Guppy go over occasionally, flying between Toulouse and Bristol, that was quite an aircraft.

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There's one up at Bruntingthorpe, bloody big aircraft when you stand right underneath it!


 
Posted : 30/08/2017 8:19 pm