Courtesy Ensign - ships do it all the time.

US warships have been doing this for some years, or using a spoof identlty, though the MMSI Number 000000000 or 99999999 usually gives the game away. French warships often do the same but using 888888888.

It's an elderly aeroplane so may be a Constructive Total Loss.

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Mon May 06, 2019 12:00 pm

Wildcat ZZ396 just arr Gannet missed call sign

Refuelled at Caernarfon as SKUA 409.

Map slid off the coaming?

They are expected to embark in USNS Medgar Evers. Did anybody catch the serials?

We tracked the ships of SNMCMG1 as they came north and only saw four (Thetis, Hinnøy, Dillingen and Cattistock) coming up the river. Thetis and Hinnøy secured at the landing stage while Dillingen and Cattistock entered Canning Dock. Do we know the identities of the other two? (we have 8 MCMVs on the...

That's VATA-D, which is east of GH North.

Texan sorties are currently following a fairly standard format of:
Launch from Valley
General Handling in GH North
Circuits at Mona
Recovery to Valley.

Lewis's story about Roland Beamont's arrival over the USA reminds me of the dit about the Canberra PR9 requesting clearance to join US Upper Airspace from Oceanic:
"RAFAIR xxxx request FL660"
"Yeah, if you can get that high"
"Thank you, descending to FL660"

The E-3 Orbit Areas are all on the RAF UK High ENR chart.

In its heyday, RAF Finningley operated 6 different types (a mix of piston, turboprop, jet, fast jet and rotary), happily integrating all on a single runway. To assist in identification, each of the aeroplanes had a different callsign suffix and headlight pattern.

360Radar has by far the densest network of ground stations in the UK, and they don't need to be sophisticated. When I started contributing data, it was via a dongle with a twiglet aerial on the window sill and a biscuit tin for a ground plane.

He'd been around for years in the 1960s when I was a cadet, and he was already a good deal older than any of our Officers.

The owners are usually the last people to want a structure listed, specially if they have purchased it for redevelopment.

Both aircraft now on the ground at Glasgow, having arrived just now from Reykjavik. Expected at Valley tomorrow morning.

'Scramble' reports that the next two Texans for Affinity Flying Training Services are expected to arrive at Valley early next week. ZM327 (N2856B) and ZM328 (N2857B) are currently being prepared for the crossing at CFB Goose Bay.

Before I retired, TMS was my constant companion in the car. Gasholders, buses, pigeons and dirigibles - the very essence of an English summer. When I was working at home, my ploy to minimise distraction was to listen to TMS and leave the TV on in the next room with the volume turned down. Then if so...

The Strikemasters recovered to Hawarden when the weather eventually cleared yesterday afternoon. However, due to the Anglesey Show taking place at Bodedern, there will now be very few jet movements at Valley before Thursday.

The "Machynlleth Loop" was created to deconflict low level traffic in transit, but has since become an objective in itself. There are plenty of other valleys in Wales which are underused by the UKLFS (e.g. here in Dyffryn Clwyd, we see fewer than half a dozen low fliers per annum, a fraction of the ...