What flew over your house today?

[X12A]

I've got a couple of site to look at in the Witterings on Thursday, so will listen out and hopefully see one of the Spits.

[iggie]

We had a nice mini-display from a pair of Red Arrows; you can almost imagine the conversation at Waddington this morning: "right you two, bugger off to Donna Nook and don't come back until you've got it right!"

[Stuart]

No Photo's as yet but since being up here in the North (of Wales) I've seen a Hawk T.2 hacking about and heard loads of Texans overhead - I'm going to have to take a trip over to Valley at some point.

[CyclingDon]

Had an Agusta-Westland AW-189 hovering around yesterday.
Rescue 199 out of Prestwick being used to assist a casualty with an injury on the local hill. The chopper than landed on a lower field to transfer the casualty to an ambulance.

I tracked it with an adsb receiver that feeds to https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

Regularly pick up aircraft some as far as 200 miles away - taking advantage of Multilateration (MLAT) with other receivers to feed military aircraft and smaller planes to adsbexchange
The receiver runs on a Raspberry Pi with an antenna in the garden - costing less than £100 to put together.

My feed is: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?feed=1FFKCa6EmbI9

The only problem is watching the feed stops me from modelling....



From https://www.facebook.com/OchilsMountainRescueTeam

[Stuart]

Very cool!

[iggie]

We've had a reasonably regular series of visitors to the range lately, although very few are showing up on radar....
We currently have four F15s pounding the live firing targets, and generally making a heck of a racket

I suspect it might not be a good idea to go ballooning just now

[jssel]

What flew over my house recently? An E3 Sentry, an E4 Jumbo, Couple of KC135's, an RC135 all tracked on FlightRadar. Tactical stuff in the form of F-16C's from the Wisconsin Air National Guard (not tracked) and a Canadian Coast Guard UH412 twin Huey. They all tracked precise racetrack patterns for the longest time.

[PaulBradley]

I suspect it might not be a good idea to go ballooning just now

[jssel]

I wrote the Air Force. Dear Sir, please return the address card with a brief description where it was found. My daughter needs it for a school project. Thank you.

[iggie]

Now you know where they're coming from....

[PaulBradley]

That's what happens when a mummy radome and a daddy radome get together......

[Stuart]

Was having a cuppa at the Caernarfon airport cafe the other week, when this turned up.



It was a lot fun watching it do a rolling take off.

[chrism]

A quick heads up for anyone in the area over next few days ... (this was taken from a press release dated 28-Feb)

The RAF has confirmed the full details of the international aircraft participation in the upcoming Exercise Cobra Warrior 23-1, which runs from March 2 to 24.

Seventy aircraft will be taking part with the first international attendees arriving at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire yesterday in the form of six Royal Saudi Air Force Typhoons. While at RAF Waddington, also in Lincolnshire will be five Indian Air Force Mirage 2000s, six Belgian Defence – Air Component F-16 Fighting Falcons and six F/A-18 Hornets of the Finnish Air Force.

[iggie]

A quick heads up for anyone in the area over next few days ... (this was taken from a press release dated 28-Feb)

The RAF has confirmed the full details of the international aircraft participation in the upcoming Exercise Cobra Warrior 23-1, which runs from March 2 to 24.

Seventy aircraft will be taking part with the first international attendees arriving at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire yesterday in the form of six Royal Saudi Air Force Typhoons. While at RAF Waddington, also in Lincolnshire will be five Indian Air Force Mirage 2000s, six Belgian Defence – Air Component F-16 Fighting Falcons and six F/A-18 Hornets of the Finnish Air Force.

There is also a Saudi A330 MRRT at Waddo, which came in on Monday
I'm looking forward to seeing some of the attendees on the range at some point

[general rocket]

Gazelle and an Avro Anson, appeared to be vaguely together.