Mike Etheridge 1 Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Yesterday in my garden I could hear a noise similar to a fast moving slope soarer, and sure enough it was a full size glider on it's way to Kenley aerodrome. I was not quick enough with my camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo565 Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 We are 6 miles east of Newcastle airport bang on the center line of runway 25,snapped this RAF A400 doing a spot of training,did about 3 laps and then headed south., this was about 10 days ago. Edited By Jim Carss on 04/09/2020 19:21:26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatMc Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Hi Jim, you must just about sick of the sight of them by now. Over the lockdown period the A400's doing circuits of Newcastle airport were the most common aircraft we saw from Seaton Sluice. OTOH last Monday saw this Christen Eagle from our back garden, the first time I've seen one outside of an airshow. It was heading north following the coastline, I just managed to grab the camera & snap it before it disappeared from view behind houses. By the sound I think it may have turned & headed back south over St Mary's island & just beyond sight from our house. Excuse the poor quality, it was so far away by the time I managed to snap it that I had to crop most of the image away to get a half decent picture. Edited By PatMc on 04/09/2020 22:13:07 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i12fly Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 For plane spotting I use Flightradar24 for civil and military Hawks around Anglesey, and Freedar.uk for military (and civil). Both free. For some reason the Freedar does not show the Hawk T1s around Anglesey, don't know why. Kevin, you might be getting attacked by Harvest Mites rather than midges. They are nasty little biters that you only notice a few hours after being bitten and itch like crazy for 2 or 3 days with a raised lump about 10mm across. The mites are about 1mm across live in the lawn and bite humans and animals late July through to mid September. We managed to catch one and our vet confirmed the id. They are arachnids so flea treatments don't work, our cat has to have steroid injections to help stop the itching, unfortunately the vet wont give me the injection too, so I avoid the lawn and have a gardener to mow -who either has skin like leather or the mites just don't like him. Apparently they don't suck blood but inject digestive juices then suck up the liquidised flesh. Vile. There is no licensed treatment in UK/EU but is is the US.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 The best thing for harvest mite bite is TCP. Apply with a cotton wool swab and it will take the itch away very quickly. Sometimes a bad one will itch longer and need more applications. I have a patch which gets me in the front garden just where I get into my car!!! They go at the first frost. THey get between the toes on dogs and cats so if you see a dog desparately chewing between its toes you know it is a harvest mite bite Edited By Peter Miller on 05/09/2020 08:24:49 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo565 Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Pat may have some info on the Eagle,a pal of mine lives in Amble and he knows the chap who owns it,could be based at eshott. the most odd ball aircraft Iv'e seen is this one,came into newcastle about 3 times early summer and sounds like a demented wasp Piaggio,greek reg. Pat latest on the eagle,it belongs to the guy who runs the Newcastle aero club flying school and is based at Fishburn in Co Durham Edited By Jim Carss on 05/09/2020 10:58:20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan M Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Two silver coloured Chipmunks flew over the house in close formation at lunchtime - I wasn't wearing my distance glasses but they were pretty unmistakable! Mind you, the first summer I moved here 18 years ago, two Spits and a Hurricane flew so low over the village the old shed vibrated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Hibbert 1 Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Three B52's at approx 10,000ft over Northampton earlier this week. Maybe letting down into Mildenhall. Great sight and sound! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BackinBlack Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 Posted by Andy Hibbert 1 on 05/09/2020 20:16:32: Three B52's at approx 10,000ft over Northampton earlier this week. Maybe letting down into Mildenhall. Great sight and sound! B52s have been very active from RAF Fairford the last couple of weeks. This last week at least a pair has flown out every morning from Fairford roughly ENE at 10,000ft over Northamptonshire then over Lakenheath and onwards easterly climbing to 30,000ft plus. They disappear from radar roughly over NE Poland and reappear 4-6 hours later to return on the same route to Fairford. Quite a sight even at 8-10,000ft (I'm near Northampton too) and unmistakeable sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 A eurofighter is currently flying around iverhead. Very noisy! GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Ellis 1 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Two F15s chasing each other in the dark. Afterburners show up well at night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 We moved to the Yorkshire east coast a couple of years ago and i was immediately surprised at the aircraft flying over - the military ones probably on their way to or from the MOD airspace just off the coast. Geographically, I am 5 miles from the coast, about 2 miles from an 'inactive' RAF base, about 4 miles from a private airfield, and a mile or so from my flying field😊 From what I can remember, these have flown over/around at various heights (often EXTREMELY low...) some are almost daily Eurofighter/Typhoon F15 F16 A400M (VERY VERY LOW) USAF Galaxy Tucanos (often have 3 practicing aeros overhead) Grob Prefect Tornado Hawk Tiger Moth (flew over one way at about 1000 feet; 20 mins later flew back much much lower to be under the clouds) Bell 222 R22 R44 Various SAR helis Chinook Couple of autogyros (these land at Edsfield the private airfield) Various other helis that I cannot identify Microlights ditto Usual cessnas and pipers A Hurricane (I think) - probably going to/from an airshow.... My wife thinks it's funny that I run into the garden when I hear an aeroplane. Like a 60 year old child. As an aside, we drove to our local refuse/recycling centre a while ago, and whilst waiting for a train to pass (LOADS of level crossings round here), I said "wow look at that long flat field, would have been great for WW2 bombers". I later found it was an emergency field for just that in WW2 - just outside Bridlington. This place feels a million miles removed from Halifax! GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 When RAF Brawdy closed nearly thirty years ago things became very quite around here [ boring ] As I was a Coastguard rescue officer at the time we also lost the SAR Seaking's with which we practiced with and sometimes just went for jolly with. I have to say the most "interesting" flight was on a practice when I was plucked off a cliff face [ no winchman, coastguards were expected to fit the strop themselves ] and instead of being winched into the helo went for a trip around the harbour on the end of the cable before being landed back on the clifftop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster prop Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 I was in some gardens near Wing in Buckinghamshire this afternoon and a Catalina flying boat went over. It was going slowly and not very high, probably under 2,000 ft. I expect it’s from Duxford, remember seeing one there at an air show. I don’t know of any others in the UK. A rarity, glad I was there to see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 A largish plane just flew low over the house, with strobe effect lights across the leading edge of the wing, which jolted my memory. Yesterday, I saw two Chinooks flying near BAE, never seen one before. My wife said said she thought there were three, flying past the golf course. I am a golf widower. As for Typhoons, I hear them often, see them occasionally, mostly a tiny delta. As said the noise is a give away they are about. In this local, a bird of good omen, for this region. Edited By Erfolg on 10/09/2020 20:35:31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Spooky. Couple of Chinooks were flying around earlier, quite low, doing triangular circuits, passing me at about 0.25 miles away. Surprisingly graceful machines.. GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 This morning 2 Apaches at about 500' following the A1 north in W Yorks, then this afternoon 1 Apache, 1 Chinook and 1 Osprey all few over the patch heading south. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Round here it isn't even worth mentioning Apaches, they are around day and night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Davies 3 Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 We regularly get an aerobatic display from a Harvard. It fair shakes the ground. Which is nice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 We don't get him over this side Graham!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Davies 3 Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 That's a shame Peter. We also get your old friend in his Pitts from time to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Peter, so did we before their training base up the road at Disforth was closed, now they are rare - for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 I haven't seen the Pitts for ages. ACE: I was at Dishforth for a few months working on the Beverly major reconditioning program....I still have nightmafes over that one but luckily I managed ti get posted awayagain. That was in 1964 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 It somehow passed me by that the RAF basic fast jet training in the lovely Tucano turboprop has now moved from LInton on Ouse in Yorkshire to RAF Valley in Anglesey, with the Tucano being replaced by the TII Texan, based on the Pilatus PC-9, but manufactured by Beechcraft. I only noticed this when a pair of Texan II's showed up on the ADS=B tracking website that I have switched on to see what we've got operating around these parts. Yesterday we had a few Eurofighters out and about over the North Sea and in a more zoomed out view I noticed that the BoB Memorial Flight Spitfire and Hurricane were busy over the south of England. Then I saw an unfamiliar icon and it was a pair of Texans which peaked my interest and have a look on the MOD website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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