amateur Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 The stooging over the English Channel now seems to be exclusively by Belgian registered Diamond DA62 operating out of Lydd. Unlikely to be UK government, so media? The drone that I spotted the other day, reported in the press as UK government, hasn't shown up since. You would have thought that we would have had full coverage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 The Diamond has really covered some area of the channel search today and been up for hours. Oh, and the Red Arrows are displaying off Eastbourne. It's good, this app! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted August 18, 2022 Report Share Posted August 18, 2022 Yesterday, my eldest Son and his girlfriend and I were shooting at Eriswell Lodge, just up the road from Lakenheath and Mildenhall. She got all excited when the F15s started taking off! So we called in at Mildenhall on the way back and tracked a returning KC135 tanker on the available radar sites and watched it land. Simple pleasures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSpredder Posted August 31, 2022 Report Share Posted August 31, 2022 Seems a strange route to take from Leeds to Darlington. Not a great many planes fly over here, but we heard this one going round and round tonight (too dark to see anything). Would it have been in some kind of trouble, and burning up fuel? I know nothing about flying, but circling around the Cheviot (even at 16,000ft) sounds a bit risky. And in the end it didn't go to Darlington, but appears to have landed near Easingwold. What was happening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaymo Posted August 31, 2022 Report Share Posted August 31, 2022 32 minutes ago, McSpredder said: Seems a strange route to take from Leeds to Darlington. Not a great many planes fly over here, but we heard this one going round and round tonight (too dark to see anything). Would it have been in some kind of trouble, and burning up fuel? I know nothing about flying, but circling around the Cheviot (even at 16,000ft) sounds a bit risky. And in the end it didn't go to Darlington, but appears to have landed near Easingwold. What was happening? Think you may well find out that it was a Hawk? Disregard the Dep/Destination field and look at the altitude and speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSpredder Posted August 31, 2022 Report Share Posted August 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Jaymo said: Think you may well find out that it was a Hawk? Disregard the Dep/Destination field and look at the altitude and speed. Thanks, that would explain it. I had been under the impression that the system excluded all military aircraft, but obviously it does not. I have never previously seen anything military on Flight Radar - the only things that show up in the ordinaryway are big airliners, a few smaller civilivan planes and helicopters, and tow planes from the local gliding club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted September 1, 2022 Report Share Posted September 1, 2022 Javelin is a Hawk callsign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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