Interesting Aircraft

[DaveR]

Thanks for that and welcome to a fellow Teessider.

The heli I picked up was G-MPSA, guess another personalised reg. I wonder if it's like car's you have to pay a fortune for a personalised plate?

[steveb25]

Well the DVLA of the sky's have to ,ake their money some how!

[Allocator]

These prices look better than those for car number plates :-)

http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=122&pagetype=90&pageid=138

[steveb25]

And no road tax either!!!!!

[Allocator]

Another nice one - in the list only, no position.

[Roadrunner]

It has been a busy few days for USAF heavy metal. A total of 5 E3TF AWACS have been about plus 74-0787 is one of 2 of these around. AirForce One 82-8000 went to Europe around 17:30-18:00 today all for the big European meeting later this week.....

[Really]

Picked up XH558 (G-VLCN) on my logs today, very worried when I heard they had declared mayday but understand everything was ok in the end, landed at Cottesmore.

[Allocator]

Picked up XH558 (G-VLCN) on my logs today, very worried when I heard they had declared mayday but understand everything was ok in the end, landed at Cottesmore.

A spurious fire warning light.  There's a good video clip of an interview with the captain on the BBC website  - I can't post the link as I can't see what it is!  Do a search for Vulcan and it it the most recent video clip.

I hate the new BBC website layout - ugghhh!

[Pallmall68]

Another interesting Aircraft

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[Roadrunner]

These are regular visitors to Bristol Filton but still very interesting. Reminds me of days at Southend as a child watching the Carvair car transporters from Southend airport - also a very funny shape.....

[tarbat]

Got four of these FR Aviation aircraft in the air at the moment, presumably in support of a training exercise by some French Navy pilots for Exercise Joint Warrior 081.  The radio exchanges between the bombing range controllers and the French pilots is hilarious - "do you have facility for guns"........."pardon?".........."have you got a gun?!!!!"

[steveb25]

Pallmall68

Do you have any idea do the beluga's only go to Bristol, just that I picked one up the other day heading towrds Liverpool, thought it might be on the way to Warton?

[Really]

It was probably going to Hawarden Airport (Chester), thats where the Airbus factory is.

[steveb25]

That would explain it. Thanks very much

[nortonbeak]

Got four of these FR Aviation aircraft in the air at the moment, presumably in support of a training exercise by some French Navy pilots for Exercise Joint Warrior 081.  The radio exchanges between the bombing range controllers and the French pilots is hilarious - "do you have facility for guns"........."pardon?".........."have you got a gun?!!!!"

Those Falcons are based at Teesside Airport and left for that exercise at Kinloss on Monday.

http://www.dtvmovements.co.uk/2008Months/200804Apr/Apr21.htm