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Big-ish & Low over Sidmouth

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Some Lufthansa planes are the same. Flew with a colleague a few years back; him in business and me in economy. He had someone tripping over him the entire flight, I had a row to myself. Don’t get me wrong economy still wasn’t good but he got no more sleep than I did.

Queen of the skies!

In plane jousting configuration.

In the last year I've been on an old Sri Lankan Airlines A330-200 in a 2-2-2 layout and a Finnair A330 in a very strange layout where alternate rows on the port side had 1 or 2 seats: https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Finnair/Finnair_Airbus_A330-300_V2.php

New flying suit needed I think...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8579593/Chinook-crew-lucky-escape-RAF-helicopter-hits-countryside-power-lines-exercise.html

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That'll buff out

Looks crazy, daily mail tho, how'd they manage to fly into powerlines?

Happens with surprisingly regularity, I saw a few occurrences during my time working rotary.

Hence why many helicopters are fitted with cable cutters, Chinook not though...

Chopper equivalent of SMIDSY then?!

Any reason why? IIRC US ones do have them, and the RAF has a rep for low-level ops...

No idea I’m afraid.

I have no informed opinion on this but I did read that the US ones only really work on steel cables less than 10mm or so...might not acrually be that useful for a lot of power lines.

Thats the type of Coawtguard drone my adsb picked up recently. Was doing laps of the channel.

This cowboy was doing loops and rolls over the Chilterns this morning (although stopped by the time I grabbed my camera)

Google tells me it is a Pitts S-2A Special

That plane had a bit of a prang in 2000 https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/pitts-s-2a-g-bttr-13-february-2000

"The warning sign, which was demolished, has since been relocated further from the runway edge."

High Wycombe Airfield glider tug doing it's thing this morning

Some more info here http://www.bookergliding.co.uk/fleet.html

Anyone just see that A400 fly over east London?

Met a Skyvan in Oxfordshire this morning. But this airliner was more fun.

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Just, Wow!

^^Bloody marvellous

Did a ride yesterday in the Cevennes (France) and stumbled accross this wee airfield. They were quite busy towing the gliding lads up in the air and I took some time to behold.

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