Interesting Military Aircraft

[Runway 31]

Bet you have been waiting for years to get the chance with that one.  Yer only as old as you feel Syd

Alan

[anorak]

Now got G-AMRA DC-3 so more than likely, but didn`t hear or see it.
Dave.

[EK01]

Currently have an RAF Hawk pilot (registration XX339) flying about over here with delusions of grandeur using flight ID of 'MIG 56' !

[dudbaker]

Interesting.  When I was on 100 Sqn we would simulate a defecting aircraft.  We would put a day-glow star in front of the roundel.  When landing at the station being Tacevaled it was the job of the fire section to stop the aircraft getting off the runway.

Dudbaker

[Runway 31]

Lots of fast jet activity around Ian, at least that one is showing on screen.

Alan

[EK01]

Two RAF Hawks currently flying today at a low level of FL130. XX339 flight ID MIG 56 of yesterday but today has XX285 with a flight ID of MIG 55 as company.

[carras320]

Those Hawks are TLP 2013-5 course, participants in Albacete (Spain), as they are agressors they use the code MIG 55 and 56.

[EK01]

They must be making it difficult for the 'opposition' today as both are back in the air with the same flight ID of MIG 56 !

[tarbat]

Unusual to see one of the QinetiQ aircraft landing at Lossie.

[SIGINT1]

194E97        RA-85655   T154  Russia - Air Forc... 2013/11/01 11:24:31

Noted this on yesterdays log - believe this is possibly the Russian TU-154 that is doing US overflights out of Travis Air Force Base California under the Open Skies Treaty - Link ---
 http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_07_28/Russia-to-inspect-U-S-under-Open-Skies-Treaty-5595/   

Joe - Reno NV

[Runway 31]

Hi Joe,

Yes its an Open Skies aircraft.

Alan

[RodBearden]

Seen passing Montreal and apparently heading to the UK for RIAT and Farnborough is N531TA, a Cessna E530 which Wikipedia believes is the new low-cost fighter otherwise known as the Textron AirLand Scorpion.

[GreekSpy2001]

 4B820B  TUAF937                  13-0009    A400  Turkey - Air Force   2014/07/04 10:02:56 

Out of RAF Waddington today.  Interesting to note it was using adsb aswell as it was plotting its position.

Graham

[Runway 31]

Here is a link to some shots of the Cessna E530 Scorpion detailed above by Rod, taken at Edinburgh yesterday.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/dakota_mad/  Quite a departure from what you expect from Cessna.

Alan

[CoastGuardJon]

WOW!!!