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by **hazy** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:59 pm

Did anybody else see this over western Glasgow today. App 2pm.
Strathclyde police are really pushing the boat out with eye in the sky.

by **shammon** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:03 pm

Looks like the Awax plane

by **glasgowken** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:12 pm

My brother saw it, but not me.

by **cheesemonster** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:40 pm

I saw an unusual looking plane flying northwards over Tesco's in Shettleston about an hour ago, don't think it was this one but it had something sticking out of it like an extra tail fin

by **glasgowken** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:47 pm

It looks like this from the side, maybe it was the same plane.

by **cheesemonster** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:49 pm

whats the big...er, tack like thing for then?
not much of a spy plane if it sticks out like a sore thumb eh?

by **glasgowken** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:59 pm

A radar thingy.
It's not a spy plane, it provides airborne early warning, and radar coverage over combat zones.

by **JayKay** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:51 pm

It is an E3 Sentry (Airborne Warning and Control) The RAF have seven of them.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/sentry.html

If it had been a spy plane you wouldnt have seen it. Or seen something more Nimrod or Canberra shaped.

It was flying over Glasgow this afternoon on a training exercise. Well they would say that, wouldnt they... :wink:

by **doonunda** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:43 pm

by **e2wufos1** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:16 am

I saw it at Clydebank shopping centre as it was on finals for Glasgow Airport but for some reason it aborted landing and just flew straight up again.

I waited to see if it was on a go around but never seen it coming back so don't know where it went.

Jim

by **doonunda** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:38 am

by **MungoDundas** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:22 pm

Good work getting a photograph of a moving plane.

From another website;

>>
Glasgow Airport 19th Sept. 2006.

ZH105 E3 Sentry RAF overshot runway 23 at 1449 & 1502
callsign "Nato 19".
<<

If you google the serial ZH105, jetphotos come up with a rake of snaps of this machine.

Btw, the British 'spyplanes' are the Nimrod R1s of 51 Squadron in Lincolnshire.

by **Snapshot** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:38 pm

Whats the website? I remember seeing one before that listed minor incidents at the airport, but a quick google can't find it :-(

So go on, spill the beans, :-)

Alan
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http://alangraham.co.uk/

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