Paul Bradley Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 This afternoon, we witnessed a flypast by the local Air National Guard in honour of our frontline COVID workers. (I should note that this was done as part of a regular training exercise, where refuelling and formation flying training was conducted - no PPE was harmed in the making of this flypast!) KC-135R 61-0284, 161st ARW; F-16Cs 90-0715 & 87-0311 of 162nd FW, and F-16D 88-0173 also of 162nd FW. flypast04 by paulbradley109, on Flickr More photos in a separate Aviation Photography thread. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teuchter Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 A C17 about an hour ago, now flying circuits round EMA as far as I can work out from ADSB Exchange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyf117 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Not exactly flying over, but hovering within earshot this afternoon - on looking out of the window, eventually spotted a few hundred yards off Crinnis Beach in Carlyon Bay: What looked like a DHFS Griffin - he held that position for a good 10-15 minutes: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 A KC-135 and a Chipmunk today. Whilst out for my walk along the river I saw a huge number of banded demoiselle damselflies. The deep turquoise of the males and emerald green of the females are amongst the most beautiful colours in nature, IMHO. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 On 5/5/2020 at 10:52 AM, JWM said: I made a high altitude photo about 2000 I have found this mine photo from ~2000, below is only scanned fragment with An-22 Cheers J-W 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 I heard an unusual noise in the distance around 1.15am and looked on ADS-B. It was a pair of V-22s heading NE towards Mildenhall. We rarely get any military aircraft in this neck of the woods, save for the Apaches and Chinooks transiting between Wattisham and Middle Wallop and certainly nothing from Mildenhall or Lakenheath. Oer the past few days there's been KC-135s and V-22s, so I wonder what's changed? Anyway, it would be nice if the V-22s come back during daylight! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyf117 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 7 hours ago, lasermonkey said: I heard an unusual noise in the distance around 1.15am and looked on ADS-B. It was a pair of V-22s heading NE towards Mildenhall. We rarely get any military aircraft in this neck of the woods, save for the Apaches and Chinooks transiting between Wattisham and Middle Wallop and certainly nothing from Mildenhall or Lakenheath. Oer the past few days there's been KC-135s and V-22s, so I wonder what's changed? Anyway, it would be nice if the V-22s come back during daylight! There's been a V-22 operating daytimes in and around the Hereford and Gloucester areas most of the week - flying lots of patterns anywhere between 1,000 and 10,000ft... ....was doing so west of Hereford at the beginning of the week, and west and southwest of Gloucester midweek... ....this morning, the same A400 that's been playing over and around this area all week (see 'A400 having fun' thread) has been within sight flying approaches into Newquay... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McYellowbelly Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Not seen an A400 Atlas overhead, until this week! Saw one heading north on Tuesday, just had another over Striling at 5000ft heading west. According to FR24 its going from Brize to Humberside, via Aberdeen, now at 2000ft near Glasgow ZM419 apparently 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 (edited) So far we've had a Neiuport 17, a Stampe SV-4 and a Cessna 180, none of which are what I'd call everyday sightings. edit: tall a lie, it was a Cessna 140. Edited May 16, 2020 by lasermonkey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Looked like a Porterfield earlier on - @melvyn hiscock maybe? Loads of A400Ms this week (which nowadays I see being referred to by news hacks as "A400" or even worse, "A-400"). I think the A400 is a road in north London. Last week one 'newspaper' described a 'massive A400' being seen near Manchester, which is not only geographically incorrect (the A400 ends at Charing Cross), but the A400 is also one of our smaller A-roads, at just 4.3 miles. So the headline should in fact be, "Woefully short A400 seen near North London". It's been a long few weeks in lockdown. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvyn hiscock Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 26 minutes ago, Sabrejet said: Looked like a Porterfield earlier on - @melvyn hiscock maybe? I have not flown in years and sold the Rearwin ages ago. The Porterfield resembles the Rearwin Sportster by being from the same designer and having the same motor. The Porterfield on the register is Navy blue, the Rearwin Sportster Is ‘Stearman Vermillion’. Mine was the much bigger Cloudster. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 4 hours ago, McYellowbelly said: Not seen an A400 Atlas overhead, until this week! Saw one heading north on Tuesday, just had another over Striling at 5000ft heading west. According to FR24 its going from Brize to Humberside, via Aberdeen, now at 2000ft near Glasgow ZM419 apparently That'll be the one I saw earlier, then. Not much happening up here - BA A319, KLM E190 and the usual Loganair small stuff. I did see one of the yellow Beech Super King Air's operated by the Scottish Ambulance Service a few days a go, presumably the one based at Dyce. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOPGUN88 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 whilst working at perth morrisons outside heard first aircraft for a while and it was an A400. Noisy at its level. usually see anything from virgin balloon to the DA-42s they use at scone airfield. a few weeks ago at almost rooftop level was a red biplane. think it was a stearman? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Couple of BAe146 (32sqd),Wildcat Hma2,Hercules(that was yesterday) and a couple of airbus teeny weenies ...police and Hems.....im at NORTHOLT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 A DHC Beaver earlier this afternoon. Quite low, too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephLalor Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 I live in the Harolds Cross area of Dublin and the last couple of days I've noticed light twins going over in a westerly direction. From Flightradar24 they appear to be Partenavia Victors of Liverpool-based Ravenair. They fly back and forth east-west over south Dublin. I imagine they're doing some kind of aerial survey work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Yesterday, several Hercs, a C-17 and several Voyagers. Voyager - twice earlier today. An Atlas about 6 times this afternoon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Went on a walk today at a place called Burbage Common, although we were on the footpaths outside of that at this point, a Chinook appeared. Only had my phone on me so not all that great pictures. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Just had a Typhoon pass directly overhead flying south and unusually not too high to be identified as such , usually they are heard but not seen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 A TR-1 just to the south of mine. Edited 24 May - when I captured a great shot of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 And 5 minutes later - another Atlas directly overhead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatfingers Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 C17 went over on Tuesday a couple of times. Really love the howl of its engines! Regards Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 saw this Leonardo AW169 G-SASX at Staverton, whilst out on yesterday's bike ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatfingers Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 (edited) Another visit from a C17 this afternoon. Manged to get some reasonable snaps of it as it flew around. It then came low right over my back garden when I was out but I didn't have the camera at the time! Regards, Steve Edited May 22, 2020 by fatfingers 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Almighty racket suggested something interesting was flying over a once I got to the correct window there was the unmistakeable shape of an atlas quite low down heading northwest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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