Long Wheel Base Posted September 30, 2020 Share It is actually not the long way around. It is taking the shortest route actually. That aircraft is on his way to San Fransisco which as you know is on the West coast of the states. So if you take a globe and draw the shortest line from Dehli to the West coast of North America, you would actually draw it straight over the North Pole or past that on the other side of Europe. This now needs to be plotted on a flat map and that makes it look like a hell of a detour but it is not. The same for the Quantas flight from Sydney do Joburg. It actually flies over the South pole and approaches SA anything between PE and Richards bay to Joburg. Here someone explains it better than me ...https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-paths-and-great-circles-why-are-great-circles-the-shortest-flight-path/Ah ok. Makes sense. Thanks. Bateleur1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur1 Posted September 30, 2020 Share First time I see fighter jets on Flightradar ... Long Wheel Base 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Wheel Base Posted September 30, 2020 Share First time I see fighter jets on Flightradar ... fight1.jpgfight2.jpgCheck savage11 and savage12, they have basically flown on top of each other the whole time. less than 100ft difference in altitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Wheel Base Posted September 30, 2020 Share Another 3 interesting aircraft. QID22 and QID23 also flying the same path on top of each other. Bateleur1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geomark Posted October 1, 2020 Share Extra facility opened for planes grounded by Covid-19An aircraft storage facility in Central Australia is now so full that its owners have had to seek out more space. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54335931 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porqui Posted October 1, 2020 Share Warning !!! Do not go to this page !!! https://www.facebook.com/BigJetTV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spokey Posted October 6, 2020 Share Arriving at Stockholm RW 19L and parking up this afternoon. After a month of thumb twiddling in Athens it has been lekker to fly again! TIB, Lotus, RoddieJ and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur1 Posted October 7, 2020 Share 0E5775E0-DBD1-4526-8E90-17E70831C19C.jpegF861B219-131D-43E3-8591-89EC1891ACAC.jpeg Arriving at Stockholm RW 19L and parking up this afternoon. After a month of thumb twiddling in Athens it has been lekker to fly again! If you ever have a stayover here in Munich let me know. Long Wheel Base and Spokey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur1 Posted October 8, 2020 Share British Airways saying goodbye to the real Queen ... of the skies Long Wheel Base, BigDL and Bonus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Wheel Base Posted October 8, 2020 Share British Airways saying goodbye to the real Queen ... of the skies BA747Salute.jpgSo Sad.Another one Bateleur1 and BigDL 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonus Posted October 8, 2020 Share I believe on of the BA planes is going to be preserved at a museum somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted October 8, 2020 Share It's a pity the Red Bull air races have ended. 2019 was the final season, and it's appropriate that this guy walked away as the last champion of the series. https://youtu.be/TXkGhQDYnAA Warthog whisperer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybound Posted October 8, 2020 Share For the photo enthusiasts, plenty of SA aviation photos here: https://avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=15 RoddieJ, SwissVan, Lotus and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted October 9, 2020 Share For the photo enthusiasts, plenty of SA aviation photos here: https://avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=15Great photos. The recent ones from Swartkops are amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spokey Posted October 10, 2020 Share A little of Geneva to Dubai yesterday. Was a lovely cool morning on arrival at the aerie. Sadly the viz was not very good once airborne, pics of the mountains were not good. In any event we entered cloud pretty quickly. Descent into Dubai was great, track miles cut right down into Al Maktoum. The viz was poor for pics, this is the area around Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Beach. Anyways a very warm and humid evening putting the aerie to bed for a week or so before the next mission. SwissVan, DJR, Long Wheel Base and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissVan Posted October 10, 2020 Share For the photo enthusiasts, plenty of SA aviation photos here: https://avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=15 I occasionally browse the Rand and Lanseria photo sections looking for machines that i know from my time there SAB beer sales must still be doing well, very well Bateleur1, BigDL, Bonus and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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