Quote from: scooter on November 23, 2023, 03:36:25 PMNot today, but Tuesday - one of McGoo's active duty KC-46s heading into to ACY for touch and goes.

I didn't know that the Curtiss Commando was capable of in flight refuelling..   

Oh, one of those modern jet KC-46s   

Quote from: Nick on November 24, 2023, 06:00:36 AM

Quote from: scooter on November 23, 2023, 03:36:25 PMNot today, but Tuesday - one of McGoo's active duty KC-46s heading into to ACY for touch and goes.

I didn't know that the Curtiss Commando was capable of in flight refuelling..   

Oh, one of those modern jet KC-46s   

Honestly, Boeing should have offered them up in OD over light grey to the Air Force.

I've just had an Atlas 400M travelling very rapidly over Chateau Rheged,  Eastwards out of Wales at about 500 feet.

I hope it conformed to the blanket 20 mph speed limit when inside Welsh airspace...............

Quote from: PR19_Kit on November 30, 2023, 05:22:23 AMI hope it conformed to the blanket 20 mph speed limit when inside Welsh airspace...............

Doubt it, the fact it didn't is probably why it was scurrying along at 500' hoping not to be noticed by the local Plod 

Quote from: Rheged on November 30, 2023, 03:45:50 AMI've just had an Atlas 400M travelling very rapidly over Chateau Rheged,  Eastwards out of Wales at about 500 feet.

That reminds me, I saw one on the Tuesday after SMW. It was flying northwest at low level over Ludlow. I saw it from inside Ludlow Castle. I wonder if it was heading for the Mach Loop?

Quote from: Rheged on November 30, 2023, 03:45:50 AMI've just had an Atlas 400M travelling very rapidly over Chateau Rheged,  Eastwards out of Wales at about 500 feet.

And at 5 to 7 pm, another one exceedingly low and flying East.

Quote from: Rheged on November 30, 2023, 10:55:57 AM

Quote from: Rheged on November 30, 2023, 03:45:50 AMI've just had an Atlas 400M travelling very rapidly over Chateau Rheged,  Eastwards out of Wales at about 500 feet.

And at 5 to 7 pm, another one exceedingly low and flying East.

Do they know something we don't ?   

An F/A-18C shaped grey spot at the bottom of a lighter grey cloud.

I suppose the time was between 11:00 and 11:01 AM. It was scheduled to overfly the war graves at the nearest churchyard, in honor of Finland's 106th Indepence Day.

I was outside at the right time to see a first for me. A Cirrus Vision jet took off from somewhere near Zenrat, flew over to where I am, did a high speed beat up of my local airport and flew on back again. I must say that it has a interesting and nice look to it. 

Driving past the old RAF Scampton today I saw four aircraft in tarps at the end of the runway. I could see a Su-22 and Phantom, the others were hidden.

Turns out they're ex German F-4F and SU-22 M4.  The one I couldn't see was a Buccaneer and there's a Hunter T.7 too.
https://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=231596

Also drove past RAF Littering and saw the Harrier GR.9 gate guard.  Needs a little love and care.

Wittering needs a little love and care really, considering how important it is in the VSTOL world.

Mostly at Edinburgh. Various dates. A380 was at Glasgow
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We went to Duxford y'day to see the 'Spies in the Sky' exhibit, which was superb, but during the day there was a 'medical emergency' which closed the cafe there, and needed two normal ambulances AND this one! 

Must have been some serious emergency, and I hope the patient(s) are OK now.

Yesterday, on the way up to Carlisle.......mother in law's 96th birthday.......hordes of black and yellow helicopters out of Shawbury