I think the mystery has been solved. At two minutes past midnight on June 7th someone accidentally switched on the avionics. We had one single ping through the network from AE4AE6 09-0015. On its own that doesn't pin things down however the PP network member is located very near to Fairford. Near e...

Don't often make the effort to get to Fairford for bombers, but had it in my mind I would try this time. Friday was a nice day, so I was planning on coming down, even if to just walk the fence and see them. When KIPPY51 went outbound over the house in Northants I decided to head out the door and rac...

Coming back to this, I was told that someone reported the FFD C-32 as 09-0015 on group that I'm not a member of (Reach Hunters, I think). Does anyone know how reliable this is? Just wary that someone might have taken as gospel what was said above..

Cheers,
Al.

LAGR91 60-0355 SW bound over Swindon on plane plotter 2213.

Al

Rumble over Northampton just before 0900.

Al

Rumble over Northampton 1915.

Al

The above USMC Herc is outside as of 1700L, Tuesday 13th September.

Al

They went through the Daventry corridor a few minutes ago, heard over Northampton.

Al.

tim_raper wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 29, 2021 9:28 am

it's a group on FB, 'Planes, Cameras, Banter'

And not one for the faint of heart, either. Some of the language on there is 'fruity'. At least it was when I was a member a few years ago..

Al.

Think I just heard them over Northampton.

Al

Singleship Eastbound over Northampton 1310.

Al.

Over Northampton 1622.

Al

Reach1985 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 11, 2021 2:57 pm

KOKSY which is on the Belgian cost could suggest a flight in over London (in fact you basically follow the Thames from the estuary directly to its source!) as the transports do in to Brize.

That'll teach me to preach about the Dav corridor being a dead cert!

Does anyone know what a typical flight plan to UK would be from Spang? Though not direct I’m wondering if they’ll go via NAVPI-MAM and then down Dav corridor? If so I will have my eyes peeled in Norfolk. I would imagine they will use the Dav corridor. Pretty much the standard way back to FFD from t...

Hypno 01 to 129.380. 1035L.

wessexspotter wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:26 am

May be a daft question but does TARTAN39 out of Brize have any role in this? Photo opp? I recall the French tanked the Buffs the last time they were here.

Nope, our tankers don't have booms.

Al.

Interesting! I have almost exactly the same shot of the Stealth GR.1. But it looks from mine that the expose isn't there on the nose - did the men in blacked out Range Rover get to it? :-)

ZA591 by Alistair Henderson, on Flickr

Just finished scanning a bunch of slides from my 2nd (and last :( ) spotting trip to the SW USA. We covered all the usual places and ended up at NAS Point Mugu for their airshow on April 24th 1999. Back in those days I was more of a spotter than a photographer, which possibly explains why I don't ha...

Fort Irwin, in California's Mojave desert is home to the US Army's National Training Center. Aviation support for the training activities that go on there was (and still is?) provided by the NTC Aviation Company based at Barstow-Daggett airfield. On our SW USA tour in April 1999 we had a base visit ...

Thanks for the kind comments :-)

Al.