Plane spotting....
Discussion
... anyone else on here do it? 
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I can't find any message boards or internet forums on it anywhere despite googling it. I tell a lie, one came up but it's as empty as a hermits address book so worthless really.
I only do it because the children like taking the numbers ( no, really ) but I wouldn't mind finding some other like-minded folk.
Anyone else want to come out of the closet?
. I can't find any message boards or internet forums on it anywhere despite googling it. I tell a lie, one came up but it's as empty as a hermits address book so worthless really.
I only do it because the children like taking the numbers ( no, really ) but I wouldn't mind finding some other like-minded folk.
Anyone else want to come out of the closet?
I'm not a true 'spotter', but i'll go out and gawp at any military activity in my neck of the woods. There's a forum on Pprune devoted to it:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=52
http://www.pprune.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=52
I was - although modern biz jets and some of the latest generation of light aircraft I find difficult to identify. I also find that modern jet airliners often tend to look a bit samey from a distance - although once you get close enough to them they are easy enough to distinguish.
Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 9th June 16:54
I work at an airport, everything is a 737 so it gets a little boring. We have a Korean Air 747 cargo plane every other day, can't get over how big the things are.
Love planes though, the nicest thing we have buzzing around here are these :
I Like DC-10's too but I don't think too many are in service nowadays.
Love planes though, the nicest thing we have buzzing around here are these :
I Like DC-10's too but I don't think too many are in service nowadays.
Spent the weekend at a campsite near Henley on Thames this wekend. Saw plenty of stuff flying over on the way into Heathrow, including an SAS MD-80 similar to the one in that picture.
There was some nice stuff buzzing around the local area - a couple of Pitts Specials, a Bucker Jungmeister, a Jet Provost, a big Waco bi-plane a YAK-52, an Extra 350, a couple of Tiger Moths and various other more mundane light aircraft.
There was some nice stuff buzzing around the local area - a couple of Pitts Specials, a Bucker Jungmeister, a Jet Provost, a big Waco bi-plane a YAK-52, an Extra 350, a couple of Tiger Moths and various other more mundane light aircraft.
sneijder said:
I work at an airport, everything is a 737 so it gets a little boring. We have a Korean Air 747 cargo plane every other day, can't get over how big the things are.
Love planes though, the nicest thing we have buzzing around here are these :
I Like DC-10's too but I don't think too many are in service nowadays.
Ahhh, Where are his wheels....Love planes though, the nicest thing we have buzzing around here are these :
I Like DC-10's too but I don't think too many are in service nowadays.
I like to look up, but serial numbers is to far for me.
(especially the civil ones)There's a few that go out to Bristol spotting regularly including two deaf-and-dumb chaps that I've been conversing with. Got me thinking about doing sign language as a hobby... 
Sorry, went off topic there. I really do only do it as the boys used to ask if we'd seen this one before or that one before and I couldn't truthfully answer them. We went out on Sunday and spotted another 21, that makes 500 now!!!
Sorry, went off topic there. I really do only do it as the boys used to ask if we'd seen this one before or that one before and I couldn't truthfully answer them. We went out on Sunday and spotted another 21, that makes 500 now!!!
I was up to around 13,000 last time I counted - but that does go all the way back to 1972 so I've had a bit of a head start.
That was the main eeason I started noting what I was looking at - so I could spot if I'd seen that particular aircraft before. It kind of grew from there.
Of course, the vast bulk of aircraft I saw in the 1970s are by now more likely to have turned themselves into Fosters and Coke cans so it is interesting following through the entire life of aircraft I saw back then right through to their ultimate fate - in a scrappy's or, on some sad occasions, the side of a hill somewhere.
That was the main eeason I started noting what I was looking at - so I could spot if I'd seen that particular aircraft before. It kind of grew from there.
Of course, the vast bulk of aircraft I saw in the 1970s are by now more likely to have turned themselves into Fosters and Coke cans so it is interesting following through the entire life of aircraft I saw back then right through to their ultimate fate - in a scrappy's or, on some sad occasions, the side of a hill somewhere.
sneijder said:
I work at an airport, everything is a 737 so it gets a little boring. We have a Korean Air 747 cargo plane every other day, can't get over how big the things are.
Love planes though, the nicest thing we have buzzing around here are these :
I Like DC-10's too but I don't think too many are in service nowadays.
That's not a DC10Love planes though, the nicest thing we have buzzing around here are these :
I Like DC-10's too but I don't think too many are in service nowadays.
V8A*ndy said:
sneijder said:
I work at an airport, everything is a 737 so it gets a little boring. We have a Korean Air 747 cargo plane every other day, can't get over how big the things are.
Love planes though, the nicest thing we have buzzing around here are these :
I Like DC-10's too but I don't think too many are in service nowadays.
That's not a DC10Love planes though, the nicest thing we have buzzing around here are these :
I Like DC-10's too but I don't think too many are in service nowadays.
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