Plane Spotters / Flight Radar Thread

[FBi7]

That inner aft wheel is taking a bit more weight than usual…

I concur!

 

[Penfold101]

Cool, now we've established this, is this axle a steering bogey like on the T7?

S Would you happen to know what, if any, error messages would appear on the ECAM as a result of said Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly?

1. Don’t know - I’d have to google it which you are more than welcome to do

2. Also not sure, it may tell them they’ve lost the tyre pressure reading but I can’t think of anything else system-wise which would know what happened. I’d expect ATC informed them fairly quickly and with no immediate emergency it was just more convenient to deal with it back at Heathrow.

 

[FBi7]

UPS have retired their remaining 27 MD-11s. Wonder if FedEx and Western Global will follow suit?

FedEx are keeping their MD-11s.

FedEx plans MD-11 cargo plane return by May 31 following UPS accident

FedEx said on Wednesday it is working with Boeing and U.S. aircraft safety regulators to return to service by May 31 the MD-11 cargo planes it grounded after the deadly crash of one of those jets operated by United Parcel Service in November.

www.reuters.com

 

[Rroff]

Lots of stuff not on FR/ADSB just flew low and fast over where I live (near Wincanton) setting all the dogs off - the one plane I partially saw looked like a Typhoon but the engines sounded more like F-18s.

 

[HoneyBadger]

We regularly have Typhoons over our place on training exercises. Yesterday was the first time this year, zooming all over. Because we have a large garden, with a brick built circle, like a small round about, we’re convinced they use as a way point as they always go over it and turn. We sometimes go wave at them and get a wing wave which is super cool. They sometimes fly very low, they even did an exercise last year (We looked it up) which was sub 250 feet.