easthammer 11:43 Sat Apr 11
Spot that plane
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A new game for those suffering lockdown boredom.
Currently there are very few vapour trails across our skys for us to contemplate (I wonder where that ones going)
So much so that if you currently see a plane overhead its a novelty. But if you do and you have one of the many flight tracker apps it is really easy to check out where that plane is heading.
I have been sad enough to do this with some surprising results
Eg.
Tehran to London
Gran Canaria to Aberdeen
What is overflying you?
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Pocket
6:14 Sun Apr 26
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We’ve had a Chinook rattling through about 5pm every evening for the past week...my 4 year old has now clocked it & will wait in the garden to jump up & down waving at it....turns out it’s on the way to the temporary morgue at RAF Henlow...taken the edge off it a bit...
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Dan M
6:01 Sun Apr 26
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A MATE of mine has been putting pics from his cycling around Dorset on Strava. Bournemouth Hurn Airport has half the BA fleet parked there.
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side effect
5:24 Sun Apr 26
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Btw I'm an anorak I also have traksy realtime trains and Railcam and even marine traffic. For fellow train fans railcam have a few cams free to view on youtube.
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Northern Sold
4:13 Sun Apr 26
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Lot more action over Southend Airport last couple of days... must of been 7 or 8 Ryan air easy jet flights either taking off or landing
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Dan M
2:54 Sun Apr 26
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Had the first low plane for a while over Epping this week. Flightradar had it as a 747 cargo freighter flying from Moscow to Stansted. Of course since the MP helicopter base was moved from Epping Forest to North Weald we get those noisy bastards overhead several times a day. Not that we'll be able to begrudge it, but it'll be worse when the new Air Ambulance station is built there.
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side effect
8:52 Fri Apr 24
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I paid the 5 quid for plane finder and some of the icons are now covered with the raf logo. Chinooks Hercules and Globemeister to name a few. Last night it looked like a chin landed at the excel but I never seem to get any past Harold Wood even with normal traffic limited.
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yngwies Cat
12:28 Thu Apr 23
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Plane radar is great.
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SDKFZ 222
9:25 Wed Apr 22
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A few nights ago at about 10pm, I saw four vapour trails whilst standing in my back garden. Normally, I can probably see about a dozen or more at that time.
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Northern Sold
6:42 Wed Apr 22
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Had one of these buzzing over the house a few weeks back...
https://www.southendstandard.co.uk/news/18349546.watch---largest-aircraft-ever-departed-southend-airport/
Right fat cunt of a plane
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violator
11:39 Wed Apr 22
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I'm also guilty
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Johnson
11:16 Wed Apr 22
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I must admit this sort of thing is one of my geeky pleasures.
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violator
11:08 Wed Apr 22
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There's a border force drone over the channel at the moment
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ironsofcanada
10:08 Wed Apr 22
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Couple of virus stories - empty planes coming back to Canada from China and the delayed one coming into Brize Norton - made me aware of this cheat.
https://www.radarbox.com/
Probably old news for some people, but there you go.
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PwoperNaughtyButNot
4:29 Sat Apr 11
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Had a Canadian airforce plane coming in from Basra today
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gph
3:04 Sat Apr 11
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Fucking hell, Ron. Put that hat back on.
You're not you without it...
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GreenStreetPlayer
2:11 Sat Apr 11
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Planefinder.net is a decent one.
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Ronald_antly
2:11 Sat Apr 11
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You know you LOVE me for it, Matron!
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Nurse Ratched
2:10 Sat Apr 11
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More dottiness from Ron, there.
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Ronald_antly
2:09 Sat Apr 11
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"There's a C17 military transporter plane about to land in Calcutta, origin Kuwait. I wonder what that's about."
The military wanted to transport something from Kuwait to Calcutta. It is just about to complete its journey.
That's my take on it, anyway.
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Coffee
1:14 Sat Apr 11
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:-)
It's going to land at Dhaka.
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