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no sighn of queenie
Sep 13, 2022
Last reply: 3 years ago
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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
Cut out and keep.
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Brian
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I tracked it on ABD.
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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.
That C17 flight is the most tracked in Flightradar24 history.
Damn near brought it down.
I'm surprised they didn't do a bit of sky-writing with the track..
A crown would have been good.
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.
Seems I'm years out of date:
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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
I used
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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.
There is a military helicopter training area off the coast near there.
A P51 Mustang from Duxford flew over here. So what?
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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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.
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.
I suspect it was escorted by lots of discrete airpower equipped with anti-missile missiles anyway.
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