Hi, The Swindon shuttle bus was there any problems today please.How long were the queues ?and where are the drop off and pick stops please. Thank you SW Took over an hour and half each way. They were turning up at the end sporadically. 3rd year doing the Swindon Shuttle Bus and this was by far the ...

A few blurry screen grabs from video yesterday on taxi past P-8A '441' which should be 168854 of VPU-2 wearing false serial 168441 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53778260033_0863517666_h.jpg LGSA 7-Jun-24 by Ian Metson , on Flickr EP-3E (trackers showing 164140) https://live.staticflickr.com/65...

Hmm, so 096 is still missing after its trip on 11th?

An airborne recce mission today lunchtime over Fairford

4 B1s by Ian Metson, on Flickr
IMG_9898 by Ian Metson, on Flickr

Afraid I didn’t have a camera, only mini bins and didn’t take any photos with phone. We were in the Rotana £90/nt, room with balcony overlooking the F1 circuit with the airport in the distance. Inbounds close to overhead but not visible until abeam hotel. I suggest that the nearby Crowne Plaza as me...

Sat on a hotel balcony at Yas Island a number of interesting aircraft were on short final, various CN-235, C-130, C-17 all of which defied identification. One I'm curious about was an all white CN-235 with just a '0' (zero) on the tail (where the reg normally is for the likely candidates, USAF 66043...

Thanks guys, I know France is in NATO but assumed extra paperwork issues from when it wasn't (70s 80s 90s and most of the naughties) still lingered on. But yes, I get simplicity. Thinking about the 'serial/reg swapping' 757s/C-32s, which I haven't noticed much but they're probably using the cloaking...

I can't find the answer on the forum and I know there is/was a reason but forgotten (old age?). Watching RCH462 C130 out of Ramstein now heading towards the Azores.... like nearly all similar transits, it routed all the way up to the Netherlands to join the TACAN route structure in UK, then out via ...

1610 hdg 300 towards VLN? on 275.6

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eck92Fdxx5Y/YVctPmuL4rI/AAAAAAABjaY/-3fklOTaZGMJUiaNTyG-NJ9f7oXHoc42wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/IMG_3745.JPG Has been based at Boscombe Down this week, N723AR seems to have been on a similar tasking in Portsmouth Harbour as N73266 Cessna 207A which according to https://...

Civvy Learjet N119MA appears inbound from the Netherlands at 1015 local

Ian

....believed ETD is 1505 local today

DRAGN31 is on 129.425 cleared BIG-CPT and to be FL200 20nm? prior BIG Typical first time in ages a u2 comes near me and the cloud base is 800 ft in snow. :'( Same here, haven't even heard one for a year or so on the usual freqs, then it shows up on VHF and plotting, never mind seeing one from the g...

DRAGN31 is on 129.425 cleared BIG-CPT and to be FL200 20nm? prior BIG

Not wishing to be contentious but from the north side Nature Reserve fence line last week with a bit of reference to Google Earth to get our bearings we could easily see the the Spitfire and as you move along the fence line towards the 06 end, bits of the others are visible. Should be easier to see ...

U-2 is CLOY01 (could be KLOY or KLOI)

Two F-117As, NIGHT17 (airtest) and NIGHT21 (chase) at Tonopah Test Range. Some distant images to accompany the comms with TTR tower.

https://youtu.be/wOoDoBv22vc

Will I think Palmdale's worth a look, assuming you're there on a weekday, there's usually something of interest visible in the distance (7 miles) from the Lamont Odett Vista Point on Rte14. May be a U-2 doing circuits, if so, then the Facebook group description of BJ's corner gives best description ...

I hope that Scramble - or someone - give us some more on the alleged use in Syria. I had a bit of a surprise last year when sat on the beach in Abu Dhabi to hear NIGHT01 check in (have seen NIGHT17 4 years ago at Tonopah Teat Range). It even showed on FR24 from Syria-ish to Al Dhafra. NIGHT01 Is app...

Dan Log from 14-August Threshold tour... Gate East Side XZ692 Lynx Car park area West Side XZ930 'SN' Gazelle Newcomen hangar XV655 Sea King XV660 Sea King XV665 Sea King XV671 Sea King XV675 Sea King XV708 Sea King XV713 Sea King XZ576 Sea King XZ581 Sea King ZA131 Sea King ZD637 Sea King ZG817 Sea...