1910 What appeared to be an all grey A340 (though it could even have been an Il-86) going into Brize. Sorry I cannot be more positive but I have trouble identifying modern airliners. All I know is whether they hae 2, 3 or 4 engines.

Could it have been a DC-8? Apparently there was a Meridian Airways one into Brize around that time.

Lynx AH.7

I thought I could hear a helicopter that wasn’t the usual police EC135. It was this Lynx AH.7 north of Luton 10 minutes ago, heading East and disturbing me from editing my Biggin Hill photos!

About 1810 BST today I was on the M25 clockwise, near junc 23 I think, and some sort of bizarre biplane microlight contraption passed directly overhead in the opposite direction. Anyone know what it might have been?

Luggage Goes Walkabouts! :diablo:

I think most of us in this country call our airports by the name of where they actually are, but I imagine those in other countries would refer to them with the London prefix. I know when I flew back to Luton from Sofia it was only displayed on the board as “London”. I imagine dropping London from the name would cause them to lose a lot of business as many foreigners who want to travel to London have never heard of Gatwick, so won’t book a flight to there in the same way that for example most UK people wouldn’t book a flight to Gardermoen if it didn’t have Oslo written in front of it.

There are a couple of nice pics of the flypast practice at Coningsby over on Fighter Control.

Pah! Cheap tat. It doesn’t even come with a helicopter. :diablo: