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Old 28th March 2009, 06:08 PM
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Question Help to identify plane?

Hi all, might be a fruitless questions here, but about 10minutes ago, a relatively high up plane flew over my house and banked to turn to the west and then headed south-west. I'm in the Hills district (Sydney's north west) and dont normally get highflyers coming from the north and heading south, its contrail is still mostly there now if anyones interested and PP didnt have anything there?

Does anyone know what it would have been?

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Old 28th March 2009, 06:20 PM
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I guess you can check out the WebTrak program to help you identify the aircraft.
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Old 28th March 2009, 06:25 PM
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I guess you can check out the WebTrak program to help you identify the aircraft.
I didn't think that WebTrak monitored aircraft that were that high since they don't exactly make that much noise when there high up?
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Old 28th March 2009, 06:44 PM
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You are right. There is nothing showing.
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Old 28th March 2009, 07:56 PM
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Virgin 737 - I saw it from the airport bank over the inner west and then head southwest - left a beautiful orange contrail in the sunset.
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Old 28th March 2009, 07:57 PM
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Its a common track I see quite a bit over my place in Petersham, but today they had quite a striking trail behind them. There were 2 about an hour apart both were Virgin Blue 737s.
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Old 28th March 2009, 08:06 PM
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Virgin 737 - I saw it from the airport bank over the inner west and then head southwest - left a beautiful orange contrail in the sunset.
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Its a common track I see quite a bit over my place in Petersham, but today they had quite a striking trail behind them. There were 2 about an hour apart both were Virgin Blue 737s.
That would be it! Thanks for that. I saw the first one as well but didn't see which direction it was going so didn't think anything of it! The last one would have made for a good photo with the contrail if anyone managed to get a snap of it
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