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Yes, something noisy flew low over my office near Stafford last week and nothing showed up on the radar. Usually it’s an A400M or Chinook.

When it’s something noisy here it’s usually a c17 globemaster. Screenshot from a video because I don’t know how to do videos on here

Can regular civilian aircraft turn off their transponders? There’s a house nearby with its own runway, the owner usually takes off at the weekends, does loops for 30 mins before landing again but I’ve never seen the airplane on Flightradar or ADSB.

Depends where the airspace is. If it’s not used as a commercial air route they may not need a transponder in the airspace he’s operating in, and then just needs a two way radio

Apache just flew over - 200ft according to Flight Radar...

https://www.flightradar24.com/AAC311/37bfc3a9

The paraglider who flew over us a few weeks ago and may well have crash landed in a field a mile away didn't have a transponder. Which doesn't surprise me.

Even with all the hubbub from Darragh I could still hear this trundle past way off in the distance;

I meant to say.. if you want to watch an AI controlled webcam at LHR then on its northerly runway.

https://youtube.com/@flightfocus365?si=GcalVwOL96zHNaI7

Thanks

We were buzzed at about 200ft by a Chinook during Only Connect. No obvious reason why they decided to loop round over our house. The cats were quite perturbed.

Test flights of the BoomSupersonc XB-1. Not very exciting, but interesting.

Private supersonic jet, with plans for a (supersonic but slower than Concorde) airliner too.

https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1

Jeez. Nasty footage of Korean crash - landed with gear up (for reasons I assume - not just in error)

Graphic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/BEj0URNP7A

No flaps either by the looks of it

None of the pilots interviewed can think why you’d ever chose a gear up landing on a hard surface. Seems the manual release is very easy to do.

I’ve only seen a couple of videos but looks like it comes down a long way down the runway, unless the videos are cut in late.

Looks like a very clean smooth landing, until it hits the big concrete wall the antenna were on

Again, lots of experienced pilots saying why was it built like that, seems crazy to have something so big and solid so close to the end of the runway. But surely the airport has to be built to certain standards, surely someone would have raised the point sooner had they seen it and thought it looked a bit dodgy?

I guess we’ll have to wait for the official investigation, but it certainly seems a bit odd and what the videos show don’t match the statements which have come out so far.

Odd again that the flight radar path stops short, the plane actually landed in the opposite direction so must have done a go around. The trace for the crash on the 24th showed the full path to attempted landing.

Jobbo wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 6:04 pm Fao MarineTraffic fans. Spotted a big old yacht in Dartmouth today; it’s a 59m super yacht named Akula, flag is Cayman Islands and it launched in 2024. Not a looker, IMO:

I was down in Hampshire over Christmas and went to the Royal Dockyard museum. We took the boat over to the Gosport side to see the submarine and I realised on the way back that the red boat moored on the Portsmouth side next to the Wightlink terminal was Akula again - its following me!

Jobbo wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 6:56 am Akula again - its following me!

Worst “OK, so I bought a boat” cover up evah.

I did think it was some sort of commercial craft when I first spotted it this time - it was moored up in a busy working harbour next to a ferry terminal. Only on the return crossing did I look at it and spot that it wasn't, and realised I recognised it.

If I bought a yacht, it would not look like Akula - even if I could afford a massive superyacht. It's U.G.L.Y, ey hey.

Another plane crash in North America, this time in Canada, all survived. Some with serious injury though

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20g02djlv7o

jamcg wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:54 am Another plane crash in North America, this time in Canada

Make sure you get your phone on for the emergency exit process eh?

I thought that last night when watching the news.

I know that fire suppressant stuff is amazing but I would want to the the hell away from a plan that's missing a wing, rather than film for content...