Hi everyone, hope I have the right forum.

I was testing out my video camera yesterday in my back garden when a plane flew overhead (nothing unusual there).
It was high and fast and the one thing that stood out was the fact that it was a single engined aircraft (still nothing unusual)
except it flew straight over London and Heathrow airspace (military flights not allowed over Heathrow) plus this reminded
me of a cruise missile in flight. Anyway if you are interested please take a look as I can't tell what kind of aircraft it is.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=HVlW5F5bmJA

A single engine jet does not necessarily have to be military, it could be something like the Century Paragon. In any case, that film is slightly beyond the resolution we would need to identify anything at all.

It's flying so far away that it is impossible to tell how many engines it has.

OK questionmark, cheers for looking.

I have a couple ideas of what it could be.

MiG-15
sry cant be the tsr-2 it never flew. lol
Douglas Skyrocket

No visible wings and extremely fast....

Almost certainly as a result of a combination of the low resolution of the video and the way the light is reflecting off of it. If you look about half way down the aircraft's fuselage you will see a darker area. This is where the wings are. Because they are at a diferent angle to the viewer they are not reflecting the sun straight back in the same way as the boby of the aircraft is. At this resolution it is simply not possible to tell how large the wings are.


How do you come to that conclusion. It is impossible to tell how large it is of at what altitude it is. How can you make any assumptions of speed particularly as it is a 92 second video, the aircraft remains in shot for the entire time and the aircraft was already well above the horizon when the video starts.



How could it possibly be a Douglas Skyrocket? Only 3 were ever built, they last flew in 1956 and all 3 are on display in the USA. As for a Mig 15, what are the chances of an early 1950's vintage Soviet fighter flying over London?

I agree with Mr. Spaceman, this air craft is too high to positively identify. The contrail is not resolve enough to tell is it is the resolt of a single engine or multiple engines. However I suspect that it is simply an airliner at cruise altitude (arond 5 miles up). With the sun reflecting off of the fuselage, as in this video, it can make a very ordinary aircraft look quite unusual.