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Probably, Northholt is used for a lot of shady stuff. E.g. it was used for a lot of the extraordinary rendition flights, and it's where MI5 fly their Brittan Norman Islander from that used to love flying loops over East London but doesn't seem to have been around recently AFAIK.
It's also used for a lot of government flights,
I imagine Boris Johnson will have flown down to Newquay from there in an RAF Whisperjet...Edit - took that chartered Titan A321 from Stansted instead. Still a hypocrit.As @Brun says the RAF also have C-17s and they do fly into Northolt sometimes, we had one come in low (just under 4000ft) over Walthamstow heading West the other week that landed there.
I would say C-17 sounds quite possible, the engines do look proportionately big in relation to the rest of the plane, whereas on a C5 they are dwarfed by the sheer size of the thing.
On the large, bizarrely white jetliner - if it didn't have windows it could have just been a cargo plane. Some of the lesser known operators have plain white planes - e.g. Western Global have (or had) a plain white MD11 - and the Covid-related increase in available landing slots at Heathrow has resulted in more freight movements and the barrier to entry being lowered for cargo operators. The plain white liveries are less to do with conspiracy theories and more to do with it being cheaper to not bother...
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I haven’t seen an A400M in person so not sure what the props look like in motion from a distance. The engines did look very large. Could have been a C-17. 🤔
Thanks!
-Now wondering if one or both were going to RAF Northolt. Can’t find any unusual landings at Heathrow today.