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They've just been over here, near Thame. On their way to Blenheim?

The Presidential Flight of 3 Ospreys and two helicopters popped into RAF Northolt.
I'll try to upload a picture.
They took off just as I passed by on the way to West's Beers.

Aha, there they go again, heading east.

Relativity. Yo.

https://youtu.be/H1pKq7PKJZI

eurofighter replacement announced
will be humanless drone

theresa may must have had a say in it

eurofighter replacement announced
will be humourless drone

theresa may must have had a say in it

:)

Familar shape

At first I thought... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XF-108_Rapier

With hints of

And a wee bit of Replica:

Photo credit: John Higgs https://www.flickr.com/photos/elferrito/28451261984

https://theaviationist.com/2014/02/25/mysterious-bae-replica/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Replica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTuL2-ND-68

Bet it can't do that flying out of Hong Kong full of rubber dog shit.

Here's the picture of the Dullard in Chief's Osprey airborne travelcade from last week.

Just booked tickets for Duxford BoB airshow for 22nd Sept

Anybody else attending?

From takeoff, how much ground would a good sized passenger plane cover before it reached cruising height?

On this profile, somewhere in the region of 160 nautical miles

Thanks! Someone else can ask questions about the diagram

Big jets like 777s and A330s for China, Japan, Singapore, etc, are regularly over my house at 3o,000ft +, usually about half an hour after lifting off from Heathrow. I'm on the Norfolk Suffolk border, more or less 100 miles from the airport in a straight line.

Is there a flight tracker that will in real time tell me what plane is flying over my location?

https://planefinder.net

This one is decent

https://www.adsbexchange.com/

http://www.flightradar24.com

Thanks all, will have a play around with those.

I like the way that planefinder gives you additional info on airport runway support vehicles.
I've no idea why I like this.

Apparently my great-grandfather worked at Felixstowe making flying boats for the Navy, which prompted me to take a look at the contraptions that they built then - it also appears that none of them survive to this day.

Does anyone know anything about those planes?