Flightradar24 Thread Part II

b757

CardinalJ wrote: »

3 Dassault Falcon 20-5B's flying wacky patters east of newcastle.

http://www.cobham.com/about-cobham/aviation-services/special-mission/products-and-services/operational-readiness-training.aspx

b757

B763 CMB559 N342AX out of SNN.

billie1b

fr336 wrote: »

And you b757, apologies...remembered Oscar's username slightly easier!

How can you not remember b757??? One of the slickest, sexiest aircraft ever

fr336

billie1b wrote: »

How can you not remember b757??? One of the slickest, sexiest aircraft ever

My memory's all over the shop...there's another person here with a similar name Oscar is nice and easy next time I'll say nothing :mad::P

billie1b

fr336 wrote: »

My memory's all over the shop...there's another person here with a similar name Oscar is nice and easy next time I'll say nothing :mad::P

Easy now, easy, take a deep breath, no offence intended

fr336

billie1b wrote: »

Easy now, easy, take a deep breath, no offence intended

Sorry who are you again?

Peregrine

Off topic but the Boeing 757 is to be appreciated every time it's mentioned.

Does anyone know what the 767 that left SNN around 2230 is? Over Wales now.

b757

Nim wrote: »

Off topic but the Boeing 757 is to be appreciated every time it's mentioned.

b757 wrote: »

B763 CMB559 N342AX out of SNN.

Omni

Peregrine

b757 wrote: »

Omni

Oops

PukkaStukka

Nim wrote: »

Off topic but the Boeing 757 is to be appreciated every time it's mentioned.

That thing is one beast! GTI of the sky

Irish Steve

My abiding memory of the 757 was (long before 9/11, over 25 years ago!) a jump seat trip from Brussels to Heathrow, and crossing the Channel at FL310 on a (rare) gin clear day that meant we could see Portland Bill on the left, and the Wash on the right. The track distance from Brussels wasn't much above 90 miles, so getting up to 310 was not a bad performance at all. The space on the flight deck is massive, unlike some of the smaller aircraft, and the take off and landing performance were also pretty impressive.

It says something for them that 25 years on they are still a sought after aircraft and with the winglets that have been added in recent years, popular with the airlines for even long routes.

I've often wondered if the winglets had been offered as an option a bit earlier, would BA have got rid of their 757's quite so quickly as they did?

Tenger

Irish Steve wrote: »

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I've often wondered if the winglets had been offered as an option a bit earlier, would BA have got rid of their 757's quite so quickly as they did?

Continental were the carrier than pioneered their use over the Atlantic.......This was facilitated by the winglets related inefficiencies. However this was after the production shutdown so the reinvention was too late to save the line. The aviation downturn post 9/11 killed off B757 orders in favour of 'less risky' B737/A320.

Wikipedia info:
-2003, a renewed sales campaign centered on the 757-300 and 757-200PF yielded only five new orders.
-October 2003, following Continental Airlines' decision to switch its remaining 757-300 orders to the 737-800, Boeing announced the end of 757 production
-May 2005, the FAA granted regulatory approval for manufacturer-sanctioned blended winglets from Aviation Partners Incorporated as a retrofit on the 757-200.
-Production of the 757 ended on October 28, 2004, after 1,050 had been built for 54 customers.
-July 2012, 860 of the narrow-body twinjets were in airline service,

arubex

Irish Steve wrote: »

I've often wondered if the winglets had been offered as an option a bit earlier, would BA have got rid of their 757's quite so quickly as they did?

A fair chunk of their fleet ( all the G-BIK_ ones at least ) were low-gross-weight initial models, which were limited in range. They had the lower-power 535C engines too, so I don't think they could have been rerated to the higher weights.

99 tonnes is in my mind as the max weight for those ones, versus 114 tonnes for the Connie transatlantic models.


When DHL bought them second-hand they nautrally stripped-out the furnishings and this gave a useful reduction in zero-fuel weight.

arubex

King Air 350s are quite rare. Here's one eastbound out of Shannon.

http://fr24.com/MTF108/557a42d

The prefix MTF seems invalid, belongs to Interjet of Italy.

Edit: I stand corrected, it is their machine

http://interjet.it/our-fleet/beechcraft-kingair-350/?lang=en

Peregrine

Leinster jet out of DUB. Be ineteresting to see if it goes to BHX or EMA.

AGC

Nim wrote: »

Leinster jet out of DUB. Be ineteresting to see if it goes to BHX or EMA.

Coventry I would say

Falcon L

http://www.flightradar24.com/TYW352/557dfe9

Air ambulance.

Oscar Bravo

Jet2 757 (G-LSAK) just departed Shannon , southbound.

donvito99

What are the two DAAR a/c?

Peregrine

donvito99 wrote: »

What are the two DAAR a/c?

They're vehicles. DAAR17 is Rescue 17, a Mitsubishi Triton 4x4.

b757

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Jet2 757 (G-LSAK) just departed Shannon , southbound.

Came in from Manchester, another Jet2 (G-LSAH?) diverted into SNN earlier. Must be picking up the PAX.

donvito99 wrote: »

What are the two DAAR a/c?

DAAR = DAA Rescue (##) Vehicle
DAAM = DAA Maintenance (##) Vehicle

arubex

16:55 Delta B763 doing a westbound CAMBER DoD contract, approaching NI

http://fr24.com/CMB547/557e7d0

Probably out of Azerbaijan. Usually it's North American that does those runs.

JCX BXC

Arggg, this thread decided to unfollow so I stopped getting notifications uhh.

Jet2 757-200 out of Shannon.

Pat Dunne

Antonov An-124 now heading north west over the Isle of Man from Bucharest. No destination listed.

b757

Pat Dunne wrote: »

Antonov An-124 now heading north west over the Isle of Man from Bucharest. No destination listed.

Going to Newark.

arubex

Don't often see this older-series Brazilian registration prefix. PR-DNZ is a Falcon 7X over NI

http://planefinder.net/flight/PRDNZ

Owned / operated by the Grupo Pào de Açucar conglomerate, sort of a Brazilian version of Tesco.

http://www.gpabr.com/home.htm

youknowwho

Anyone experience all the aircraft and airports disappear off their FR24 map?

Peregrine

youknowwho wrote: »

Anyone experience all the aircraft and airports disappear off their FR24 map?

Have you got any filters on?

youknowwho

Nim wrote:

Have you got any filters on?

No, all the filters are off. The map is just simply google earth with no symbols! I'm still getting alerts for emergencies but then can't see the plane

arubex

07:30

The Pink Delta B764 ( N845MH ) proceeding down the Irish Sea for Heathrow

http://fr24.com/DAL28/55a7746