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Post by kuga59 on Apr 16, 2020 13:43:24 GMT 1
In the air now flying west over Middlewich is at least one Red Arrow Hawk XX311 nearing Chester at 2400ft FR24
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Post by kuga59 on Apr 16, 2020 13:51:32 GMT 1
Now turned North East towards Huddersfield.
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Post by mikep on Apr 16, 2020 13:53:57 GMT 1
via an ILS & go-around on 05L at Manchester then heading out via Marple into the Derwent valley ...
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Post by kuga59 on Apr 16, 2020 14:01:02 GMT 1
Now heading towards Lincoln. Appears to now be doing aerobatics. Increased speeds, large changes in height, etc.
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Post by kuga59 on Apr 17, 2020 9:06:50 GMT 1
It was the first time I’ve seen a Rrd Arrow Hawk on FR24, never mind following one. FR24 show it as a small delta winged aircraft. For the majority of the flight it was at about 2400ft at just over 300 knots. Just before it got to Chester it turned back flying towards Manchester. My internet then started playing up and was only updating its position every couple of minutes. As Mikep says it then did an approach into Ringway. I picked it up again east of MAnchester heading towards West Yorkshire. It’s height at this time kept changing as well as its speed going up to nearly 400 knots reducing to about 130 knots. It then turned south east towards Lincoln and then it suddenly started climbing up to nearly 6000ft at the same time its speed reduced to under 100 knots, suddenly changing to a dramatic reduction in height and speeds over 500 knots. I presume this was a vertical climb then going over the top hence the speed and altitude changes. This happened several times with strange changes in direction, zig zagging through the sky. Very interesting to watch.
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