no sighn of queenie

[Jim Stewart ...]

[Jim Stewart ...]

[Brian Howie]

I set up an RTL dongle and ADSBScope and tracked it over the Solway from the near of Stranraer. It was a C17. By coincidence, one of these mothers was doing circles and bumps for a couple of days at West Freugh Airfield nearby in May.

Brian

[Brian Howie]

Cut out and keep.

Brian

[Jim Stewart ...]

[Jim Stewart ...]

no

[Harry Bloomfield Esq]

I tracked it on ABD.

Then later tracked a Chinhook which I heard pass over here (above), which took off from the Edinburgh area and I thought might be something to do with the flight of the C17, but no it carried on and seemed to be heading for the Portsmouth area.

[Bob Eager]

That C17 flight is the most tracked in Flightradar24 history.

Damn near brought it down.

[Harry Bloomfield Esq]

I'm surprised they didn't do a bit of sky-writing with the track..

[Bob Eager]

A crown would have been good.

[Bob Martin]

My FR24 did go down, just after Northampton, and as a feeder (RPi) I get a free business account. Not sure it was the most tracked flight though, a flight carrying the Pope a few years ago had a huge number.

Interesting (to me) was that the C17 went out of its way to fly over Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham.

[Bob Martin]

Seems I'm years out of date:

[Brian Gaff]

I believe that any internet tracking of aircraft are delayed significantly from real time in case nobody has a Sam missile in their garden. Brian

[Jeff Gaines]

I used

which stayed up for the whole flight.

I thought it odd how close it got to those cities bit if went straight through the middle of the lake district.

How are royal flights designated? I read somewhere they have an "r" suffix (which this did) but there were other flights with that suffix too.

[Colin Bignell]

There is a military helicopter training area off the coast near there.

[The Natural Philosopher]

A P51 Mustang from Duxford flew over here. So what?

[Tim Lamb]

Unrelated.. There was a radial engined single seat fighter doing circuits at Duxford on the 3rd. Sept. What would that be?

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[Harry Bloomfield Esq]

Nope, at least from what I saw. the aircraft landed on ADB at the same time as it landed on the TV. The aircraft squawk is received by lots of interested amateurs and uploaded to a website, so I cannot see how a delay could be introduced anyway - other than there being some interval between the squawk transmissions. I also doubt it would be of much use for launching a missile.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Dunno, P47? Think all the sea furies have crashed. Most US fighters were radial aircooled

So hellcat wildcat bearcat corsair...P47...buffalo,,hawk, seahawk...helldiver

texan and harvard, too.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I suspect it was escorted by lots of discrete airpower equipped with anti-missile missiles anyway.