The plane enthusiasts thread

[DRM]

I presume our Scottish brethren will make their feeling known?

any other discussion had better go to "The Other Place" before the Mod get involved

i feel certain that there will be warm welcome upon arrival!

 

[gbb]

Two vintage fighters, turned out one was the BBMF Hurricane, the other, despite flying 'alongside' wasn't showing on adsb. Conningsby to Bedfordshire, over Peterborough, onto Boston ish then probably back to Conninsby.

Reasonable to assume the other fighter , while not sshowing on adsb, would have been a Spitfire.
While I didn't see or hear it, you can see PA474 Lancaster was over March at the same time, not far from here. I assume they split at some stage....

 

[Jenkins]

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While I didn't see or hear it, you can see PA474 Lancaster was over March at the same time, not far from here. I assume they split at some stage....

Possibly on its way to or from the Old Buckenham airshow.
Apparently there's supposed to be a flyby from the Lancaster later this afternoon here at Felixstowe as part of the town's carnival.

 

[DaveReading]

Two vintage fighters, turned out one was the BBMF Hurricane, the other, despite flying 'alongside' wasn't showing on adsb.

When aircraft are flying in formation, it's usual for only one of then to have the transponder turned on.

 

[slowmotion]

We went to a remote floating camp on Knight's Inlet, British Columbia last week. A 69 year old Dehavilland Otter DHC-3 float plane took us there. It carries twelve passengers with one sitting in the co-pilot's seat. They stash your luggage in one of the floats. Great fun.