Interesting Aircraft

[shaun]

Luxembourg NATO AWAC.

[darkskies74]

Luxembourg NATO AWAC.

Pardon me for asking a daft question, but how do you get the screen shot to include the grid at the left of the page?

[orkney]

Pardon me for asking a daft question, but how do you get the screen shot to include the grid at the left of the page?

P/quote]ress the "print screen" button on your keyboard and then  open a graphics editor (eg. paint) and press paste it there then save it in whatever format you want (jpg gif tif bmp or png)

hope this helps.

Andrew

[Runway 31]

I see WAD51, Nimrod R1 XW664 just about every day at around FL240.  Anybody any idea what this aircraft is doing.

MTIA

Alan

[viking9]

XW664 and XW665 are engaged in ISTAR duties.

Tom

[Runway 31]

Thanks for the reply Tom, what are ISTAR duties?

Alan

[DaveReid]

"The Nimrod R1 is a derivative of the Nimrod MR2 maritime patrol aircraft and is operated by No 51 Squadron, from RAF Waddington. The Nimrod R1 has a highly sophisticated and sensitive suite of systems used for reconnaissance and gathering electronic intelligence. The ability of the Nimrod to transit at high speed and then loiter in an operational area at lower speed for long periods makes it ideally suited to the task. Air refuelling can extend the Nimrod R1's endurance should the task demand. The Nimrod R1 is operated by a four-man flight deck crew of two pilots, a flight engineer and a weapon systems officer, and an electronic reconnaissance crew of 24 reconnaissance- equipment operators commanded by a mission supervisor. The aircraft is fitted with two inertial navigation systems and a satellite-based global positioning system to assist in the requirement for accurate navigation.
The Nimrod R1 can be distinguished from the maritime MR2 aircraft by the absence of the tail-mounted Magnetic Anomaly Detector boom."

[viking9]

Alan,

ISTARS - Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and the Reconnaissance.

There are only two R1s in existence XV249 and XW664, not XW665 as I said above, it having been retired some months ago. Rare to see them in this country as they are usually deployed to Aghanistan. However, recent heightening of the terrorist threat here is keeping one busy in our skies along with some other newer types which should be out in Afghanistan helping our troops.

Tom

[daelight]

Gotta love the Flight No. on this one..

[shaun]

A Greek Lockheed, are these photos of two different aircraft?

[DaveReid]

A Greek Lockheed, are these photos of two different aircraft?

Yes, the RadarBox aircraft details/photo bug strikes again.

You are indeed looking at photos of two different aircraft - a Greek Air Force F-16C and a rather forlorn-looking PZL-130 Orlik, the latter on display at the Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego (Polish Aviation Museum) in Krakow.

And in fact it was neither of those aircraft that you actually picked up - RadarBox is known to return those spurious photos and details for hex code 48D842, which is in fact CASA 295M msn S013 of the Polish Air Force.

Here are the photos that RadarBox should have displayed:

 

[shaun]

Thanks Dave,
In future will this bug be corrected?

[DaveReid]

Thanks Dave,
In future will this bug be corrected?

I certainly hope so, as do many other RadarBox users.

AirNav have been promising action on this for more than a year, so I would expect that a fix is imminent any day now ...

[Tramline]

Thanks Dave,
In future will this bug be corrected?

I certainly hope so, as do many other RadarBox users.

AirNav have been promising action on this for more than a year, so I would expect that a fix is imminent any day now ...

AhemCough01AprilCough ;-)

[Marpleman]

Saudi Ministry Of Finance B737  HZ-MF1 (7101E2) at FL400 full ADS-B heading 281 direct over Stockport now

Rich