This may be better off in Modern, but as I suspect from the description it might be quite elderly I’ll start it here. Hope that is OK by everyone, especially the Mod team. If I have no joy I’ll see if I can get it hoofed over to there.
My parents are certain that something they cannot identify occasionally rumbles very slowly into Stansted – spotted twice in the last couple of months. It is a four-engined turboprop, and is mightily slow. There is (are?) a Hercules that runs in sometimes, and this thing apparently makes the Herc look like Concorde. My immediate first thought was Belslow (Belfast, for the uninitiated) but it is based in the Southern Hemisphere, and I have no idea whether it has ventured north of the Equator lately.
Any ideas, anyone?
Thanks,
Adrian
(Happy New Year, by the way!)
By: A225HVY - 7th January 2007 at 22:18
“I think I saw the An-224 heading into Brize Norton today”
An-124… or An-225?
Or is there an An-224 I haven’t read about?
😉
That’ll be AN124 UR82027 😀
By way of interest AN225 due into Cologne on the 8th of this month departing next day;)
A225HVY
By: Flanker_man - 7th January 2007 at 19:18
Talking of An-22’s….
Here’s a pic of me with a spare tire…..:D …standing next to a spare wheel inside the cargo hold of an An-22 at Gostomel – take last June.
The other pic graphically illustrates the size of the huge C*ck :diablo:
Ken
By: adrian_gray - 7th January 2007 at 18:20
B*gg*r!
That’ll teach me to rely on what I laughingly call a memory!
A quick Google reveals that it is a An-124.
I shall go and hide under a bush with my Observer’s Book of Socking Great Russian Planes until I can get it right…
Adrian
By: Bager1968 - 7th January 2007 at 17:10
“I think I saw the An-224 heading into Brize Norton today”
An-124… or An-225?
Or is there an An-224 I haven’t read about?
😉
By: adrian_gray - 7th January 2007 at 16:08
Ah, that’ll be why they didn’t spot it! Having talked to them, I think the one they’ve seen is the An-12 rather than the An-22.
Interestingly, I think I saw the An-224 heading into Brize Norton today – different to the usual VC10s!
Adrian
By: A225HVY - 7th January 2007 at 15:12
AN22 was replaced by a AN124 as AN22 was required elswhere and AN124 was availalble in the area…
A225HVY
By: adrian_gray - 6th January 2007 at 21:31
Did either of these flights turn up??
Brian.
I’ll find out tomorrow when I phone them. Can’t say anything about the outbound flight as they usually leave the far end of the runway, but if it was on its way in there’s a good chance Dad will have spotted it, seeing as I gave him the time!
Adrian
By: pimpernel - 6th January 2007 at 20:12
Did either of these flights turn up??
Brian.
By: A225HVY - 3rd January 2007 at 23:24
Universal Time Coordinate, a fancy name for GMT.
Changed by the cheese eating surrender monkeys!!!!:D :diablo:
A225HVY
By: adrian_gray - 3rd January 2007 at 11:05
Thanks, Paul, consider me educated!
Adrian
By: PaulR - 3rd January 2007 at 10:32
Universal Time Coordinate, a fancy name for GMT.
By: adrian_gray - 3rd January 2007 at 10:23
05JAN07 ADB772F STN ea1400
06JAN07 ADB1772 STN ed1000All utc
I can guess ea and ed – what is utc, please?
Instructions have been sent to keep an eye out – we will see what happens!
Adrian
By: A225HVY - 2nd January 2007 at 22:51
Latest sched for the big boy is :-
05JAN07 ADB772F STN ea1400
06JAN07 ADB1772 STN ed1000
All utc
A225HVY
By: Jamie-Southend - 2nd January 2007 at 21:32
As G-ANPK said it maybe this one from November :confused:
By: adrian_gray - 2nd January 2007 at 21:09
Hmmmm, a couple of possibilities. If it was due in today, I have missed it as I headed back from there this moning. Dad might have spotted it, though – I’ll have to enquire…
Cheers, will pass on as and when I can extract whether it had twin tails or not – might be awkward as they really do live right under the flight route, so if it comes straight overhead it can be a b. to tell anything other than the planform.
Adrian
By: A225HVY - 2nd January 2007 at 17:16
Antonov Airlines have had the AN22 in Stansted last year could be the mighty Antaeus they saw!!:eek:
Due in again this week
A225HVY
By: G-ANPK - 2nd January 2007 at 17:15
Lumberer into Stansted
The only four engined aircraft to visit Stansted in the last few months have been AN.12`s,the AN.22 was in only once last year,but was due in today .
Nigel
By: Moggy C - 2nd January 2007 at 17:07
HeavyLift used to operate big Antonovs on freighting there. Has somebody else taken up the baton?
Moggy
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