mikel97 wrote: » Its N2731G (prob CIA) yes Shannon
Both the KLM flight into Cork and two Ryanairs (edinburgh and Fuertaventura) into Shannon are off to Dublin.
Aer Lingus having a shot at shannon now.
Edit. And they are down.
Aer Lingus down in Shannon - Ryanair schooled.
I've seen this before, seems (anecdotally) that Airbuses are less susceptible to crosswind limits than Ryanairs boeings.
So what happens to teh KLM passangers ?
And another Aer Lingus down in Cork followed by a Ryanair go around lol
A long bus ride....
Failed attempt by EI into shannon there now with RAF-Avia waiting for a shot. Fairly miserable down here at the moment.
Strongest winds I can remember in Shannon for a long time.
Phil Collins - One More Night being broadcast to all the listeners at the moment...😳
The crosswind limits on the A320 less the sharklets is higher than the 737NG with winglets (38 vs 34knots). Been fairly common in Dublin to see A320's get down when 737 don't.
The A330 has a 40 knot limit, I got into Dublin on a horrible morning where all the narrow bodies ended up elsewhere, first time, greaser of a landing.
Whats this baby up to over Ukrane
This must be the slowest topic on Boards lol
We have a Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk Drone doing the rounds over the Ukrane
This is what she looks like
There is 2 of them doing the rounds
Ah yes, see him now, FORTE12, It will probably take over from FORTE11
A joint mission out of Italy by the looks of it.
Or an Aircraft carrier in the Med ?
Possibly.you could check out the marine traffic and track the two of them back too there start locations
They’re based out of NAS Sigonella on the island of Sicily
FORTE11 heading home for fuel :-) FORTE12 taking over
The site struggling this morning has gone down.
Edit. back up now
It would be interesting to start describing some of the aerial reconnaissance over Eastern Europe at present. It's all public domain stuff - if NATO/the US wanted to hide these things, they would.
This is a Gulfsteam 4 which you'll find performing loops off the coast of Sweden. By the way it loiters, I presume it has submarine-detection capabilities - hence it's position off Kaliningrad for the last number of days.
This is another small aircraft which must have been fitted with a radar. You'll see these in pairs over Lithuania, always flying in an open V shape, typically with a short leg and a longer leg. I presume that the objective under scrutiny is located between the legs of the V, possibly generating a two-dimensional side scan of the terrain and movement within.
This is a common-or-garden Saab 340 in mil spec - as used by FlyBe - which has been fitted with a side-scanning radome called an Eireye. It appears to dash in straight lines over water from land-mass to land-mass, often seen changing direction over islands - but I suppose that all depends on the deployment at the time.
Here's the "Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint" surveillance airframe which is the replacement to the Nimrod in the UK. It's a distinctive-looking construction as it packs a horizontally orientated radome along the body just forward of the wings as well as other radomes elsewhere. This is real "theatre of war" stuff with it's monitoring capabilities as well as it's ability to seat up to 30 people within. It has advanced capabilities in monitoring troop/vehicle movements and can relay multiple data-sources back to HQ.
This Boeing S-3 Sentry are the main eyes above Europe. Commonly seen patrolling in loops over the North Sea, UK, France, Spain Germany and Italy. Wikipedia best describes this aircraft as follows: "the E-3 monitors an assigned area of the battlefield and provides information for commanders of air operations to gain and maintain control of the battle; while as an air defense asset, E-3s can detect, identify, and track airborne enemy forces far from the boundaries of the U.S. or NATO countries and can direct interceptor aircraft to these targets. In support of air-to-ground operations, the E-3 can provide direct information needed for interdiction, reconnaissance, airlift, and close-air support for friendly ground forces"
Another aircraft to look out for is the older P3 Orion with it's sting-tail which you'll commonly see over North-Central Europe scanning for subs.
Any one with further insights or interests?
Is flight trader website gone down again ?
It's seriously slow, and there's a Cloudflare DDOS protection page coming up before you even get in. It's still operating but barely.
anyone know what kind of aircraft flew over Ennis, south of Shannon airport, 30 mins ago? Sounded like a flying roadsweeper lol
The us have quiet a few aircraft floating around including this
Anyone get eyes on this fella? He left Shannon this morning, heard him over the house and looked it up. Went up to Bodo Airport which is also an airbase in Norway so I'm assuming military ops.
That’s an Omni Air International 777 N819AX. Used for US military personnel movements under the CMB callsign
FR had a waiting room in operation due to excessive traffic-(suspect Mr Putin the cause!) . They say they have now increased server capacity.
Those are typically "Boeing KC-135T Stratotanker", "McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender" or "AIRBUS A-330-200" all air-refueling platforms. There are 5 in flight over Poland and Romania at the moment. A favourite refueling location at this time is 100km south-east of Poznan, Poland.
Here's a Eurofighter picking up a bit of juice and two refueling platforms in the same refueling zone just now.
The Eurofighter flew from RAF Coningsby while the A-330-200 came from RAF Brize Norton. Obviously NATO don't locally source their resources. No carbon-taxes in NATO!
