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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: 05omegav6 on 16 May 2014, 17:02:33
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Had to stopped for a tacho break at my last delivery...
Currently sat 200 yards from ZA150 at Dunsfold 8)
A former tanker by the look of it...
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Well observed Al....this is the baby.... :y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Rg6mrbScE
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Could do with a wash, but otherwise looked tidy :y
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Had to stopped for a tacho break at my last delivery...
Currently sat 200 yards from ZA150 at Dunsfold 8)
A former tanker by the look of it...
Please forgive an aging member but I am a little confused, are you driving trucks, taxi's or both?.............. ::) :-[ ::)
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I do the odd day driving trucks as my diary permits :y
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Well observed Al....this is the baby.... :y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Rg6mrbScE
Known as the Iron Duck in BA. :-X :-X :-X :y
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I was too slow to see her, but from the beautiful sound of those engines I am sure she flew over us in Lincoln yesterday?? :y
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I was too slow to see her, but from the beautiful sound of those engines I am sure she flew over us in Lincoln yesterday?? :y
It was definitely on the ground from 4pm until gone 5, and no activity around it, suggesting that it hadn't arrived after about 2pm :y
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I was too slow to see her, but from the beautiful sound of those engines I am sure she flew over us in Lincoln yesterday?? :y
It was definitely on the ground from 4pm until gone 5, and no activity around it, suggesting that it hadn't arrived after about 2pm :y
ZA150 arrived at Brooklands on 24 Sept 2013. It's part of the museum there, so ain't going anywhere. It's the last Vickers aircraft ever built there.
The last RAF VC-10 were retired on 20th Sept 2014, and the remaining aircraft were dispursed to museums and for scrapping. The last flight was ZA147 on 25th Sept 2014 from Brize to Bruntingthorpe.
What you saw over Lincoln is likely to have been one of the RAF Waddington based E-3 Sentry or Sentinals, or perhaps a Mildenhall based KC-135.
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Yes sadly I was too late, but I could see the ar*e end of it at a distance, I'm sure it had 4 motors at the rear end?? Certainly didn't have underwing motors, or a flipping great mushroom on it.... :-\
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Could it possibly have been a Ilyushin Il-62 ????? :-\
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Quite surprisingly, a Gulfstream 5 looks very similar from a distance and at the right altitude from below to the uninitiated to a VC10. It only has two rear mounted engines, but the high tail. One regularly tracks across from Bovingdon beacon, over Amersham, out towards Woodley, then strangely, backtracks to land on Northolts northern end..Peculiar STAR routing (arrival track)
Just a thought. :y
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I was too slow to see her, but from the beautiful sound of those engines I am sure she flew over us in Lincoln yesterday?? :y
It was definitely on the ground from 4pm until gone 5, and no activity around it, suggesting that it hadn't arrived after about 2pm :y
ZA150 arrived at Brooklands on 24 Sept 2013. It's part of the museum there, so ain't going anywhere. It's the last Vickers aircraft ever built there.
The last RAF VC-10 were retired on 20th Sept 2014, and the remaining aircraft were dispursed to museums and for scrapping. The last flight was ZA147 on 25th Sept 2014 from Brize to Bruntingthorpe.
What you saw over Lincoln is likely to have been one of the RAF Waddington based E-3 Sentry or Sentinals, or perhaps a Mildenhall based KC-135.
So not gone yet then :y
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Twas last September, as Entwood posted a nice piece about the occasion :y
'Brooklands' in this case is Dunsfold :y
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Yes sadly I was too late, but I could see the ar*e end of it at a distance, I'm sure it had 4 motors at the rear end?? Certainly didn't have underwing motors, or a flipping great mushroom on it.... :-\
Ok, apart from the date, and the location, what else have the Romans ever done for us? :-) Point is, what you saw is highly unlikey to have been a VC10.
What you saw is likely to have been one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_Sentinel
The RAF have 5 of these and they are nominally based at RAF Waddington 5 miles south of Lincoln. However, there are rarely more than 2 or 3 there at any one time because they're being used as 'spy planes' to observe on the goings on in places like Libya, Nigeria, Afghanistan etc. The red tailed one arrived at Norwich airport last week for a respray.