The FR24/PlanePlotter Thread

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5944 wrote:
Tue 26 Apr 2022, 10:30 am
GeeRam wrote:
Tue 26 Apr 2022, 9:08 am
Had lovely sight and sound of Hurricane 2-seater 'Pegs' fly past my house yesterday midday/early afternoon, and when I checked on FR24/ADS-B it was showing up as not a Hurricane with the G-reg....was coming up as a microlight or something, so data wrong, but interestingly, it took-off from White Waltham and headed south down to the coast and did a few circles and loops off Selsey Bill, and then headed back to White Waltham, and flew back past me again, only closer on the return leg.
Looked like one of the standard pax sightseeing flights, but was surprised to see it operating from White Waltham instead of its home at Biggin.
It's now owned by Hurricane Heritage and based at WW, though is often flying from Duxford.
Well, looks like I might be seeing a lot more of it flying past my window in the future given I'm right next to the GA corridor route from WW to the south coast :sunglasses:

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3 X Korean AF C-130"s are due into RAF Boscombe Down from 1820 Tonight
Delivering the Korean Air Force Black Eagles Team.

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Black Projects wrote:
Tue 07 Jun 2022, 4:38 am
3 X Korean AF C-130"s are due into RAF Boscombe Down from 1820 Tonight
Delivering the Korean Air Force Black Eagles Team.
Delivering support equipment but not the T-50s.

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Big Eric wrote:
Tue 07 Jun 2022, 7:53 am
Black Projects wrote:
Tue 07 Jun 2022, 4:38 am
3 X Korean AF C-130"s are due into RAF Boscombe Down from 1820 Tonight
Delivering the Korean Air Force Black Eagles Team.
Delivering support equipment but not the T-50s.
The Eagles came into Stansted last week - Escort Vehicle Group posted up embargoed photos today on Twitter for those who use it. 9 truck convoy.

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IP1960 wrote:
Sun 19 Jun 2022, 4:20 pm
Big Eric wrote:
Tue 07 Jun 2022, 7:53 am
Black Projects wrote:
Tue 07 Jun 2022, 4:38 am
3 X Korean AF C-130"s are due into RAF Boscombe Down from 1820 Tonight
Delivering the Korean Air Force Black Eagles Team.
Delivering support equipment but not the T-50s.
The Eagles came into Stansted last week - Escort Vehicle Group posted up embargoed photos today on Twitter for those who use it. 9 truck convoy.
The T-50's are being delivered 3 at a time aboard Asiana 747's into Stansted, 6 have arrived so far and have been transported by road to Boscombe Down. 9 trucks are required to transport 3 aircraft, the T-50's are being assembled and at least one of them has made a test flight a couple of days ago.

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Here you go!

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Hi Howard and thanks for that, that post has gone viral all over spotting forums & groups in the last few days, but that convoy was just for 3 aircraft - is it just me, or am I being my usual cynical self, but does anyone actually believe that the pilots of the aircraft were carried in the escort vehicles? I smell poo............ :rofl:

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I would guess that they might have carried technicians or ground crew with the loads; security etc.
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NAM Updater wrote:
Sun 19 Jun 2022, 6:14 pm
I would guess that they might have carried technicians or ground crew with the loads; security etc.
Yes I agree, certainly not pilots as the 2nd post in the link says :- 'Each Escort Vehicle carried the Pilot for his Aircraft'!!

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Isn't it crazy how big even a "small" fast jet is, so easy to forget how big they are in comparison to a ww2 warbird or a light aircraft.

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Earlier this morning an aircraft registration N922XM was heading North over the North Norfolk coast in company with (at least) one F-15E.
It was showing up on both ADSB and Flightradar24 but not what type it was.
A quick search on Google came up with nothing, so has anyone come across this reg before and do you know what type it is?
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It's not N922XM, it's an F-15 using a miscoded Mode-S transponder.

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cg_341 wrote:
Fri 24 Jun 2022, 11:12 am
It's not N922XM, it's an F-15 using a miscoded Mode-S transponder.
Thank you.
Thought it seemed odd for something civilian being escorted by an F-15

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Tracked on both flightradar, and ADBS pages, a Chilean C-130 flew into Waddington, earlier this afternoon.
Presumably collecting spares etc. for the recently acquired E-3's.

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A regular occurrance having various American C-130s, Gulfstreams & Learjets at Cardiff Airport, but for a bit of variety there's currently a McGuire-based C-17 there.
Arrived yesterday ( Saturday ) morning at around 07:00hrs, no idea why or when it's departing.
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And sod's law says that minutes after I posted it's still there, the C-17's just departed!
Callsign REACH 331 ( same as it arrived with ) heading Eastbound
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Pure speculation on my part....
Currently Southeastbound out of Moscow, flight RSD101 ( Tu-214, RA-64521 )
Last time I caught this was a few days ago, Putin paying a visit to Sochi.
Hmmm....funnily enough, the same day that various things blew up at the airport there!

Edited to add...
And whilst not showing on any of the tracking sites as usual, U-2 BLACK01 up out of Fairford, routing via DIGBI ( off the coast of Sunderland, if I remember rightly )
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C-17, REACH 105 ( showing as 01-0186 on the various tracking sites )... Came over from CONUS ( Dover AFB ? ) did a few orbits in the Leicester area, and has just landed at Cardiff Airport
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As usual, not showing on tracking sites, but U-2 now up out of Fairford.
No ID yet, comms say heading Northbound ( via Macrihanish then Stornoway ) climbing FL600

Edited to add....
Comms keep cutting out, but think it's DRAGON 21
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idn't stop long....
REACH 105 up out of Cardiff, off to Mildenhall
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Not something I've seen on there before....
Early hours of this morning, ADS-B Exchange showing a pair of PLAAF Y-20s heading out of China & crossing Pakistan.
Now ( 06:15hrs ) back up again, showing as out of Jinnah Airport routing Westwards(ish) along the coast
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Another new one for me...
ADS-B showing a Moroccan AF B-747 ( CN-MBH, callsign FRV1218 ) transiting up through France - inbound Paris?

First thought was "Didn't know they had one", but t'internet says it's one they use for Presidential / VIP visits.
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Got bored & had a look at the tracking sites to see what's up for today's Artemus-1 launch....amongst all the boring stuff is a WB-57 ( N927NA ) :smiley:
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Slightly random but having had the white A330 out of Brize go over quite low 9000ft, its now circuiting over North West Wales below a Swedish registered Turbo Commander out of Hawarden with a Strikemaster in tow?
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No idea what it was for ( presumably a photo-shoot of the A330 & Strikemaster ) but I assume the SM would have been G-SOAF ( the one painted in Omani AF colours ) as I think that's still based up that way?
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