The Summer 2010 Plane Spotters thread
09 June 2010, 11:47 AM
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The Summer 2010 Plane Spotters thread
Come on plane nerds...
Not sure if this will work, but jot down here any interesting sightings you get during the coming months with planes attending airshows and stuff.
I've just today spotted a Spitfire and Mustang together flying NNE over East Northants.
We had that red Baron WW1 Fokker Triplane over our village last week too.
Not sure if this will work, but jot down here any interesting sightings you get during the coming months with planes attending airshows and stuff.
I've just today spotted a Spitfire and Mustang together flying NNE over East Northants.
We had that red Baron WW1 Fokker Triplane over our village last week too.
09 June 2010, 12:05 PM
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I am repeatedly seeing an ah64 apache flying over where I live. Nearest base must be well over 100 miles away and no idea why a lone apache would be flying about here 
It has the best sounding engines of any helicopter, just the sound would put the ***** up you if you were the enemy let alone seeing it
It has the best sounding engines of any helicopter, just the sound would put the ***** up you if you were the enemy let alone seeing it
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09 June 2010, 12:37 PM
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OK, I'll start and be called a cheat
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - Avro Lancaster & Supermarine Spitfire (Lnac didn't turn up)
Supermarine Spitfire Mk11
North American P51D Mustang Pair - formation and solo displays
Douglas C47 N147DC Dakota
Supermarine Seafire
Hawker Sea Hurricane 1B
Gloster Gladiator
Auster 5
Piper Cub Pair
Me-108
de Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth
Miles Magister Pair
Avro Tutor
Hawker Tomtit
Percival Piston Provost
de Havilland Chipmunk
Ryan PT22 Pair
P40 Kittyhawk
Bristol F2b Fighter
SE5a
Sopwith Pup
Sopwith Triplane
Hawker Hind
Westland Lysander
Piper Cub & Glider
Bleriot
Deperdussin
Bristol Boxkite
Avro Triplane
Lynx x1
Chinook x3
Apache x1
And the reason? I live 4 miles from Old Warden (Shuttleworth Collection) I'm under the flight path!
And this is what I have to look forward to!
http://www.militaryairshows.co.uk/ven1.htm
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - Avro Lancaster & Supermarine Spitfire (Lnac didn't turn up)
Supermarine Spitfire Mk11
North American P51D Mustang Pair - formation and solo displays
Douglas C47 N147DC Dakota
Supermarine Seafire
Hawker Sea Hurricane 1B
Gloster Gladiator
Auster 5
Piper Cub Pair
Me-108
de Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth
Miles Magister Pair
Avro Tutor
Hawker Tomtit
Percival Piston Provost
de Havilland Chipmunk
Ryan PT22 Pair
P40 Kittyhawk
Bristol F2b Fighter
SE5a
Sopwith Pup
Sopwith Triplane
Hawker Hind
Westland Lysander
Piper Cub & Glider
Bleriot
Deperdussin
Bristol Boxkite
Avro Triplane
Lynx x1
Chinook x3
Apache x1
And the reason? I live 4 miles from Old Warden (Shuttleworth Collection) I'm under the flight path!
And this is what I have to look forward to!
http://www.militaryairshows.co.uk/ven1.htm
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09 June 2010, 12:43 PM
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Nothing intersting here, under the flightpath at Manchester, it's all 320's and 767's which are only really worthy of attention if flying in a strange way, making a wierd noise or billowing smoke.
I want to see a 747 SP again some day.
I want to see a 747 SP again some day.
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09 June 2010, 01:18 PM
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Many years ago I was at the little industrial estate near the runway and there were two A10s and a stealth flying around the place. Utterly amazing to see them at Brize.
09 June 2010, 01:47 PM
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I few years ago I worked in Romania and had an internal flight from Bucharest to a place called Timisoara. It must have been an old Air Force base as lined up alongside the runway were a number of MiG-27's in various states of decay.
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09 June 2010, 03:06 PM
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There was an Apache flying round here as well, backwards all the way up the runway!
09 June 2010, 03:17 PM
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Well I haven't got a clue what they are but I've just been to the driving range near Mildenhall and Lakenheath and seen two USAF jets (with 2 sets of funky wings) and a big thing like a hercules flying around. The fighters normally do a few "touch and go" flights and the big one normally just seems to cruise around and around nonchalantly.
There's been quite a lot of flying activity in the last week.
There's been quite a lot of flying activity in the last week.
09 June 2010, 03:18 PM
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My mistake, was thinking of the Sukhoi 27. But the Flogger was a bit of a worry with its limited look down shoot down capability.
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09 June 2010, 03:24 PM
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Les,
Are you not confusing the MiG-27 with the Su-27?
the MiG was a ground attack version of the MiG-23 and, so I believe, was a bit agricultural!
Steve
Are you not confusing the MiG-27 with the Su-27?
the MiG was a ground attack version of the MiG-23 and, so I believe, was a bit agricultural!
Steve
09 June 2010, 04:07 PM
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Maybe you posted before my edit appeared though.
Les
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09 June 2010, 04:14 PM
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Posted before your edit 
It would have been the MiG-23 that had the advanced (for it's time) radar.
The '27 had a laser range finder and a flat nose.
Steve
It would have been the MiG-23 that had the advanced (for it's time) radar.
The '27 had a laser range finder and a flat nose.
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09 June 2010, 04:17 PM
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However, my smugness has been tempered somewhat by finding out that Romania only operated the MiG-23MF, not the '27 so it must have been Flogger Bs I saw.
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09 June 2010, 04:31 PM
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I was in India earlier this year and one night we flew out of Pune Airport, which is still an active Indian Airforce SU-30 Flanker base. We were next in line to take-off and got a bird's eye view from our 737 as 3 or 4 of them fired up their afterburners and shot off up into the night.
09 June 2010, 05:29 PM
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We did find though that the Eagle on Red Flag when it was on CAP was unable to see us at low level at night with its look down shoot down radar and we had to chuck out an IRD to get their attention just for something to do. Once they saw the flare we would just jam their radar anyway!
Happy days, we used to win a lot of beer from them!
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09 June 2010, 10:02 PM
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Perhaps Kent police have got one as their eye in the sky - that's one way to take out the crims
I would have thought these should also be deployed in Afghanistan as opposed to being a waste of resources flying around the English countryside
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09 June 2010, 10:04 PM
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3 weeks ago I saw 10 (yes 10!) eurofighters, 4 hawks and two unidentifed take off from Coningsby in 10 minutes. thought there may have been an excercise going on -- but someone said it could have been a practice for a fly-past (when's queenys birthday??)
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09 June 2010, 10:29 PM
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Has anyone been to the Machloop in Snowdonia?
I went the other day, and I can only describe it as uber epic!
If you are also in to photography....then there can be no better place to go. You can get above/level with the planes, and see them coming so you have plenty of time to get pics.
We saw about 5 or 6 hawks in the hour we were there. And were treated to a hercules flyby at our campsite.
I went the other day, and I can only describe it as uber epic!
If you are also in to photography....then there can be no better place to go. You can get above/level with the planes, and see them coming so you have plenty of time to get pics.
We saw about 5 or 6 hawks in the hour we were there. And were treated to a hercules flyby at our campsite.
09 June 2010, 11:35 PM
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I'm in Cumbria and quite a few use the hills behind for a playground, presumably coming in and out of spadeadem .......... Hawks and Tornado's usually but Harriers as well.
Hercules also practice dropping into Crosby and Apache's as well
Lots of Tuccano's at the moment for some reason...
Shaun
Hercules also practice dropping into Crosby and Apache's as well
Lots of Tuccano's at the moment for some reason...
Shaun
09 June 2010, 11:39 PM
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Sadly not many airworthy ones, most are private owned
VIP Government of Yemen (1)
VIP Government of Qatar (1)
VIP Government of Saudi Arabia (2)
VIP Government of Bahrain (1)
VIP Government of Oman (1)
SOFIA Astronomical Observatory (1)
Las Vegas Sands (2)
Iran Air (in passenger operation) (3)
Saudia (VIP/ Government use) (1)
Pratt & Whitney Flight Test (2)
Fry's Electronics (1)
Syrianair (2)
Televangelist Ernest Angley (1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747SP
VIP Government of Yemen (1)
VIP Government of Qatar (1)
VIP Government of Saudi Arabia (2)
VIP Government of Bahrain (1)
VIP Government of Oman (1)
SOFIA Astronomical Observatory (1)
Las Vegas Sands (2)
Iran Air (in passenger operation) (3)
Saudia (VIP/ Government use) (1)
Pratt & Whitney Flight Test (2)
Fry's Electronics (1)
Syrianair (2)
Televangelist Ernest Angley (1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747SP
10 June 2010, 12:19 PM
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So far this year, whilst at my parents house I have seen Wokkas, Merlins, Lynx, Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster, Mustang, Vampire and The Blades fly over. The helos seem to fly over on a daily basis which is nice
From my new home I've seen Tornados, Typhoons, Hawks, Tucanos, Dominies, Hercs and an SAR Sea King all from the comfort of my living room window which is about <------this far------> from the runway at RAF Lossiemouth
I've not actually moved in yet but that little lot was just whilst I was staying up there for a week sorting the new place out. It's planenobbertastic! My best plane nobber moment so far this year was whilst boating on Loch Oich on the Caledonian Canal in Scotland and getting buzzed by a very low and fast Tonka
Last edited by Scoobychick; 10 June 2010 at 12:25 PM. Reason: 'Cos I missed out the poor little Hawks!