Flight Radar 24 pt 2

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I don't know if anyone else has made one!
BA2665 has missed LGW and is circling again

Quite. I used to work somewhere interesting but doing very boring work, one day I joked to a somewhat naive colleague that there was a stealth bomber on the car park. He went to the window, looked out and replied with 'Well I didn't see it so you are lying'. He never was one to get a joke he had no sense of humour

Well quite. It would rather negate the technology if you could pick some planes up on Flightradar. However, it turns out that when they're overhead they are very hard to miss!

prickledgherkins I would probably have been your colleague just due to a failure to think through what I was saying! I have got better as I got older...

@prickledgherkins thank you for the hint, I’m wasting much more time than I should looking at that and FR! My parents live near an USAF base so I’ll be interested to see if any of those show up too

My parents live near an USAF base so I’ll be interested to see if any of those show up too

What you'll possibly find is that aircraft using those bases that have a need to frequently interact with the civilian air traffic system, perhaps because go into civilian airports or cross the Atlantic on the Commercial track system may be "visible" on flight radar...so that would be the some of the freighter types, some of the medivac aircraft, that sort of thing...OTOH fast jets and tactical transport aircraft such as the likes of the Hercules...probably less likely to show on Flight Radar unless there was a good reason for releasing the data on the day.

An example of this would be the Voyager A330 which Flight radar showed sat on the tanking towline over the north sea this PM for several hours. It was probably visited several times during it's time there by fighters etc needing a "top up" but I don't think ( open to correction) they would have been visible on Flightradar - they certainly never used to be..

I live very close to a USAF base and the regular flights don't show up.

Anyone know what SHF304 is?

Anyone know what SHF304 is?

No idea...Looks like it first "popped up" on Flight radar not far from RAF Benson...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Benson

Given that I'd suspect it might be a helicopter, no idea what it is doing.

Flight radar is saying the ground speed is 277 knots which is just a bit fast for a helicopter but it looks to me as if the data is corrupt.

Could it be a Puma? They are one of the faster helicopters.

Sorry to interrupt, but could someone tell my why some planes are blue instead of yellow? I did Google, but can't find an answer.

Just spotted 2 Ethiopian Airlines planes flying together from Miami to Addis Ababa ET8001 and ET8201. Any ideas why they would be doing that? Husband guessed repatriation?

Blue planes are tracked by satellite I think

Could it be a Puma? They are one of the faster helicopters

That's true but I'm not sure they're generally blasting around at 277 knots. Just before the trace disappeared for the night the data seemed a bit more solid and I saw a hundred and something knots which seemed more credible.

could someone tell my why some planes are blue instead of yellow?

Lola's right - blue means the data from the aircraft is actively being relayed via satellite.

Just spotted 2 Ethiopian Airlines planes flying together from Miami to Addis Ababa ET8001 and ET8201. Any ideas why they would be doing that? Husband guessed repatriation?

Could well be, there are a lot of "last flights out of...." going on..

ET 8001 looks like the standard flight number for Ethiopian on that route but ET announced they were cancelling almost all international flights so they could well be repatriating the aircraft plus passengers.

The USAF flights haven’t shown up before on Flightradar24 from what I’ve seen but spotted one last night on Freedar.

Freedar showing Typhoons up

Interesting, thanks.

I've spotted a Project Loon balloon in Kenya.

I didn't even knew they existed.

The Financial Times link below explains why it is in Kenya

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/772eb21b-67d8-4ae1-aef2-e83b4cd40dde

Unlabelled plane on freedar

The Hercules is up again between Gloucester (Fairford?) and Oxford again at the moment.

D'ya know, I saw a couple of those Loon balloons yesterday and wondered what they were. I'm learning all sorts of stuff in this crisis! And some of it is quite interesting and useful too

@prickledgherkins I've been watching that. Is it a flying lesson or something?

It's been flying around for 2.5 hours now.

And it seems to have landed in a field near a village.

BA9157 from LHR to Bournemouth!? Wonder if they are parking up there.