BA 747's

[JACK BATSON]

Don't know if I am going mad or not, but I think that have just seen two BA 747 within 10mins. of each other flying fairly low both heading north. I thought that they were no longer in service / scrapped.
To be honest they looked absolutely beautiful.

[Locked door]

Exactly how low were they?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.man...n-24560145.amp

[wiggy]

Not sure what's happened to all the hulls but as far as I can tell there are no likely candidates on the usual ADS tracking sites.

[DaveReidUK]

Aeromodellers meet ?

[bigal1941]

I saw it as well around 1900-1930 yesterday (Saturday) tracking westward at around 10000ft north of the M4. Thought the tail was painted solid red rather than the stripes. Piqued my interest.

Regards Alan

[treadigraph]

Where did you see them and what time?

[JACK BATSON]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Where did you see them and what time?

Yes I would say approximately 10,000ft passing just east of Aylesbury at around 15:45 the first one. Sounding good, looking good, definitely BA colours, very clear through the binoculars.

[Tay Cough]

Whoever they were, they weren’t BA. Guaranteed.

[treadigraph]

Originally Posted by bigal1941

I saw it as well around 1900-1930 yesterday (Saturday) tracking westward at around 10000ft north of the M4. Thought the tail was painted solid red rather than the stripes. Piqued my interest.

Regards Alan

There was a BA A380 outbound Heathrow around that time, around 10000' abeam Newbury at 1911. Can't see anything else.

[treadigraph]

Originally Posted by JACK BATSON

Yes I would say approximately 10,000ft passing just east of Aylesbury at around 15:45 the first one. Sounding good, looking good, definitely BA colours, very clear through the binoculars.

Jack, all I can see today around that time were a pair of BA 787s heading up towards Pole Hill, followed by various other 787s.

[Confusious]

Originally Posted by Locked door

Exactly how low were they?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.man...n-24560145.amp

Locked door, brilliant! 🤣

[Wireless]

Sure it wasn’t ACT 747 freighters? They have red tails.

[Wee Clink]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Jack, all I can see today around that time were a pair of BA 787s heading up towards Pole Hill, followed by various other 787s.

About 15 mins earlier at 15:27 BST a BA A380 ex LHR passed East of Aylesbury Northbound at 9,000 ft followed 2 mins later by another at 12,000 ft …..

[DaveReidUK]

[aeromech3]

I was out walking the dog about that time near Frimley Green and looked up at what I at the time thought was a B747, underside spacing and size of engines appeared more akin than A380!

[BRISTOLRE]

my money is on BA A380s however those Silkway B744Fs could be deceiving dark blue, grey and some red on the logos, a lot of these into EMA and STN in recent weeks (EMA every Thurs & Fri pm arrive tea time ish)