Just my opinion but I think the world was taking the p**s anyway with how much people were going traveling and on holidays.
Im not going to check back here to see what hate I get for saying that but that is how I feel about it
The Red Arrows have left Scampton for their Flypast over London
Just my opinion but I think the world was taking the p**s anyway with how much people were going traveling and on holidays.
Im not going to check back here to see what hate I get for saying that but that is how I feel about it
Just had them overhead en-route back to Scampton (North East Leicestershire/Lincs border), in a 5 and 4 ship.
Nice surprise for VE Day!
Travel broadens the mind. Hope we recover this industry asap else we run the risk of losing the opportunity to be more open minded
Spreading a worldwide pandemic in the process, adding to global warming, in an effort to be more open minded? Might be an excuse to jet off on exotic holidays, drink gin and tonic in the sunshine, but no need to dress it up as something ‘essential’. The world seemed to do ok for the untold millennia before the invention of the aeroplane. I think attitudes to international plane travel will have to change, either now or at some point in the very near future - hard though that is to swallow.
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Beware of thread diversion, please.
We already have several threads devoted to the right and wrongs of various actions or inactions during the C19 epidemic.
Many more light aircraft flights down my way today.
The wash is still busy as ever.
Marked increase in air traffic today.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
"You gotta know when to hold em and know when to fold em".
Yep I'm in Kingston and noticed a lot of wide bodies heading to Asia and the middle east. Looking to fly to Thailand asap but will need to quarantine there 14 days and no flights currently.
I take that there is a protest outside the US Embassy. Both a police helicopter and one from BBC TV are circulating...link.
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Just a shame the Apache can’t mislay a couple of flechette into some of the so called protesters that are just after a bit of violence!
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The Coastguard are evaluating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for SAR...link.
The Schiebel Camcopter S-100 will operate from Caernarfon airport under HMCG's contract with Bristow Helicopters Ltd. Bristow are listed as having chartered two of them...G-UASA and G-UASB (ICAO hex ids 407951 and 407952, respectively).
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Well, well, well...ZZ336 is out over the North Sea playing with a F35 Lightning: https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=43c6f9 (click the 'I' on the right to see the F35).
Schiebel we’re trying to sell these to us for Police Air Support use a good few years ago, quite impressive bits of kit.
They’re used for power line survey work in Europe with IR cameras to look for failing insulators, useful tools and very low operating costs compared to a full sized heli as well.
I seem to reminder they were surprisingly expensive to purchase though, as was the support package.
One is up at the moment over Thorney Island: G-CLLU ICAO id 4077B6.
Edit See Drone successfully completes first delivery of medical equipment to the Isle of Wight for some background and a picture.
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Anyone around Yeovilton?
There's an unusual Hawker Hunter in the skies at the moment between Yeovilton and Salisbury: https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=43c925
It was recovered from Chile and has been refurbished: link.
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They're playing a different game today...https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4d03c8,43c39f:
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They're playing a different game today...https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4d03c8,43c39f:
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Still up there:
And possibly some more next week once Jet2 get airborne again.
Yep...it was active just before the search operation after migrant crossings until G-SCIR took over.
Im not sure why, but instinctively it feels odd that military aircraft are displayed on these trackers. I'd just have imagined that would be all secret?
Some are...some aren't. Some sites show them (when their transmissions are on and received), others don't...see ADS-B Exchange for:
First and foremost ADS-B Exchange does not participate in the filtering performed by most other flight tracking websites which do not share data on military or certain private aircraft. Because ADS-B Exchange does not use any FAA data there are no FAA BARR/LADD, military, or other “filters” preventing you from seeing the the data you collected. ADS-B Exchange simply does not accept payment or requests to remove aircraft from public tracking!
No drone this time but a CG helicopter, 2 RNLI lifeboats and a French SAR tug all in the Dover Strait.
Unlike the CG, UoS and Army UAVs mentioned in this thread, I don't think these will show on the tracking sites...Kent Police use drones.
Channel surveillance very busy today, still going post 10am.
I wondered the same thing. Hunters flown by commercial companies were (perhaps still are) used to simulate attacks on warships undergoing work-ups in the 'Thursday war' but this one's pattern is very regular.
There's another drone up at the moment, see link.
Odds on it belongs to BB UAV Services but its ICAO ID isn't recognised on the CAA database as yet.
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Some pictures...link...but you have to look hard to see the ID. Fortunately the photographer has helped us out.
Britten-Norman Defender patrolling the Dover Straits today. https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4009b4