Looking tonight on ADSB I see a small jet an Aero L159 Albatross with registration number G-DKND. It is currently on the move over the North Sea towards Newcastle. It looks like a military plane, but not in the RAF inventory. It also has a civilian registration.
Is it some rich mans plaything or indirectly connected to the Air Force? Are we now sub contracting our defence?.
Looking tonight on ADSB I see a small jet an Aero L159 Albatross with registration number G-DKND. It is currently on the move over the North Sea towards Newcastle. It looks like a military plane, but not in the RAF inventory. It also has a civilian registration.
Is it some rich mans plaything or indirectly connected to the Air Force? Are we now sub contracting our defence?.
I thought that Czech trainer at the top was one I’d seen up at Bruntingthorpe, but that one’s an L-29 Delphin, as below. I got to sit in the cockpit and go through the startup sequence; all I had to do was flip one final switch and it would have started up! 😁
Interesting – they’re “atmospheric testing” planes, so either a training run, or someone suspects something fishy has happened nearby….! Windy.com shows the winds are gently blowing from the East, so something Latvia / Lithuania based?
Yep, I clicked it and it came up with the stealth bomber symbol but zooming right in its on teh corner of a building, so I think you are right. I got a bit excited and carried away….
UAE Air Force C17 cargo plane landed at Manchester earlier, I watched it on a live stream but the camera showed the Viewing Park absolutely rammed with onlookers!
Not sure when it’s scheduled to leave. There’s been a couple of them recently, the live stream commentary said there was another one due at the end of the week but I can’t find any more info.
In case anyone hasn’t been on the socials this week, Solway Aviation Museum have been gifted the very final Blackburn Beverley and are trying to raise 60k to ship it from Humberside to Carlisle airport.
I remember visiting this thing when it was at Beverley Museum of army transport. Bloody massive thing – a block of flats with wings.
Just had a couple of Eurofighters over Manchester Airport. They did a couple of loops East of Stalybridge and have now headed out the the North Sea where there is also an F15.
Just had a couple of Eurofighters over Manchester Airport. They did a couple of loops East of Stalybridge and have now headed out the the North Sea where there is also an F15.
I live in South Manchester and heard it go over…instantly knew what it was. Escorting a passenger aircraft down to Manchester with lost comms I think.
We’re off to RIAT this year, first time. Camping locally, and we’re booked in for the Friday, then chilling in the field next door watching the displays on the Saturday,
There’s at least 6 B52s (3 pairs) flying across to fairford from Norfolk at about 10k feet. They are occasionally tracking and returning from night missions .
There’s a b52 returning from an operation over Peterborough at 10k feet heading for fairford. Keep an eye out if you’re on their route as there are likely to be some following.
@pk13 – interesting, G-HHII was flying around on Thursday, it flew out of White Waltham, circled over a couple of small airfields up in the Cotswolds, then did several circuits over Chippenham, a couple quite low over my house, and did a barrel roll! Sadly I didn’t have my phone handy to get a photo!
Just been buzzed by a Douglas Invader. Appears to have come from Duxford, looped overhead in Oxford then carrying on west. seems to now be on final approach to Fairford
Whoo, fun job, can you lob a few smoke flares or something over the carpark?
I heard them coming, looked out the window and thought they were putting themselves through the window….at really rather low level. It is Galloway in the late 1990’s since I have seen plane and helicopter that low…