Hi!
This aeroplane has flown over my house a couple of times in the past month. I live on Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, UK.

It looks to me like a small passenger jet, but it also looks like it is carrying missiles???

I hope someone knows what it is because it's driving me crazzzzyyyy!!

Here is a bigger version

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42239806@N07/3982762535/sizes/o/

Thanks in advance

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Oliver

Looks like a Falcon 10 or 20 with a radar pod...

Perhaps this one:

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

Looks like a weather balloon to me and you better forget that you saw it


Nah just kidding. I think KarTek got it on the first shot.

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there is no plane in that picture, now move along.....

hehehehe thanks guys.

I wonder who would travel in a plane like that. Would it be the prime minister or maybe special forces? Or some gangster rapper? ha!

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Oliver

Too small for any higher level government users. Here is the Dassault that I would buy.

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

It appears the planes are owned by a UK firm; Cobham.

http://www.cobham.com/home.aspx

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

Wonder who was in there. Maybe it was Simon Cowell!

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Oliver

Probably private contractor for electronic warfare training. They'll use the pods on the wings to simulate some threat radar system. If there's a naval range or RAF airspace near there, it's just coming and going to go play with them. Nothing really mysterious. The Danes use Falcon jets, I think the Canadians do, too.

Hey sorry that's actually me. I've been flying around England for funzies lately and those are missiles

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1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Oh boy, now you've endangered everyone who has responded to this thread by divulging that information!

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It might be testing airport navigation systems. Years ago there was an old twin Beech that flew all the approaches to local airports in this area once a year to make sure that they worked. The father of a friend of mine used to fly one of these planes on the East Coast.

Interesting. I had an office at a Austin Aero, an FBO at the old Austin airport and when they were certifying the glide slopes for the new airport, the FAA used a King Air C-90 to do the approaches. Austin Aero had the government fuel contract and you never knew what you'd look up and see on the pads...a constant stream of NASA T-38s, T-34 Mentors out of NAS Corpus, Fat Albert, Blackhawks of every shape and form, FAA aircraft, you name it.

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