{"id":485,"date":"2024-12-11T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/?p=485"},"modified":"2024-12-15T18:59:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T18:59:59","slug":"u2-spy-plane-track-11th-dec-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/aviation\/u2-spy-plane-track-11th-dec-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 spy plane track 11th Dec 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the big advantages with PlanePlotter is its ability to track aircraft using their mode A squawk.<br>This track shows both the outbound leg (orange) and the return leg (blue) of the U2 based at RAF Fairford<br>More details on PlanePlotter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coaa.co.uk\/planeplotter.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"here\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1467\" height=\"852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/U2-Track_11-12-2024.jpg\" alt=\"USAF U2 track departing and arriving Fairford 11th Dec 2024\" class=\"wp-image-484\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">USAF U2 track departing and arriving Fairford 11th Dec 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using PlanePlotter to track mode A aircraft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","tag-planeplotter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}