GrumpyGnome Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 3 hours ago, Andrew Calcutt said: Yesterday at around 11.30 the Lancaster flew over our flying site,one of the lads had to land sharpish.It did two circuits over moira canal festival then disappeared. Nice! Just usual Typhoons and Hawks here. A 'spam can' broke our NOTAM last Sunday just before our record attempt - flew right over the strip at well below the 1000 feet we had....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad_flyer Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 About a dozen swifts tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul De Tourtoulon Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 (edited) Smoke, some idiot has started a fire north of me, 600 fireman working all night and a couple of homes burnt out,,, Edited July 8, 2022 by Paul De Tourtoulon 650 hectares burnt so far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 (edited) Usual Grob Perfect. Then 2 of them flew over the flying field, quite low, heading for the North Sea. And a blue, silver/white business jet that flew from Scarborough direction towards Bridlington, and did a full 360 turn over the field, before heading towards Bridlington. The Hawks and Typhoons have been quite active recently. The Typhoon that did the air display at Scarborough flew over our village on it's way to Scarborough - never seen one fly as slowly. We seem to have lots and lots of Swifts, Swallows and House Martins this year, and there seem to be loads of birds of prey around as well. Not many bats though..... Edited July 8, 2022 by GrumpyGnome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stringer Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 This weeks notable flybys so far .. great place to live! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan p Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 No Photo but Avro Anson with D Day stripes yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Could have been this one, down my way last year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan p Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 thats the one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stringer Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 23 hours ago, alan p said: thats the one Had him go right over me today - plus 3 Harvards / Texans. I think they are all over for an event at Sleap Airfield. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Too hight though. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Flying low overhead today Western Power Eurocopter 135 checking the lines. Block house in the background is a former WW2 era chain home low radar station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMON CRAGG Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Two F22's. Very unusual for rural Dorset!. Very fast, Very low and very noisy. Fantastic!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Something rare? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 A little story about a Gemini pilot: I was on Station Flight at St Mawgan in the Late 50s. We dealt with visiting aircraft including the odd civilian ones. Seeing civilian aircraft in and out was always popular as the pilots usually handed the ground crew a ten shilling note which was enough for a couple of seats in the camp cinema and a meal in the NAAFI afterward. One afternoon we were told that Group Captain Bader (Rtd) was landing. I and one other lad were given the job of seeing his aircraft in. He landed his aircraft, a Miles Gemini, and parked it. He then climbed out to be welcomed by a Wing Commander. Bader handed the Wing Commander his briefcase and said "Bader is the name." and they departed. It was standard practice fr the ground crew to give any aircraft a quick once over and while I did so I saw that the undercarriage oleo leg had come down and taken a small semicircular piece out of the brake drum. A sure sign of a heavy landing. When Bader returned I said "Excuse me Sir but this aircraft has had a heavy landing." "I don't do heavy landings!" I said,"Well someone has done one, you can see where the oleo leg has hit the brake drum." "No one flies this aircraft except myself!" And with that he climbed int his aircraft and departed. Of course we didn't get the ten bob note ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Yes it's rare built 1947 and powered by two Blackburn Cirrus Minor II Engines flying out of Breighton Airfield, East Yorkshire I assume, all the best things come from Yorkshire, so I have been told on many occasions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Anyone wants to build it? Miles M.65 Gemini (71.5") - Sarik Hobbies - for the Model Builder Tempting. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David P Williams Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 When I worked at Spanhoe airfield we had a Gemini based there. It had been obtained in a part exchange deal and was on the Belgian register (OO-RLD I think). Lovely old aircraft, flew in it quite a few times. When I was 15, well against the run of form, I won the form prize at school, and the guest speaker at Speech Day who presented the prizes was Douglas Bader, so I got to shake the great man’s hand. Like many very successful men he was quite brusque and arrogant, not quite as portrayed by Kenneth More. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john stones 1 - Moderator Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Post removed, topic doesn't need dragging downhill by personal comments please. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul De Tourtoulon Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Sorry just a joke from a southerner who thought he knew it all,,, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxG Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 On 06/08/2022 at 09:29, EarlyBird said: Something rare? I saw that going the other way, lovely to see and hear. It was the different noise that caused me to go out to see what it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 29 minutes ago, MaxG said: I saw that going the other way, lovely to see and hear. It was the different noise that caused me to go out to see what it was. It was the sound that grabbed my attention, it was obviously a twin but unique to my ears. It was well past my house by the time I caught it on flightradar24. It is rare, there are only five or six airworthy examples of all types, so that could be the only Gemini 1A flying. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 2 VERY noisy F15's were buzzing around yesterday afternoon. In the evening, just after dark, something very noisy, very slow, lumbered over..... couldn't see it and it wasn't on Freedar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Squirrel Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Anybody see any of this flight yesterday, much of it well below 200m, less than 100m round my way!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul De Tourtoulon Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Got of my motorbike at the local beach only to see the French mob tree Extra 300 and an American Bronco, rubbish photos on my cheap telephone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 2 hours ago, Flying Squirrel said: Anybody see any of this flight yesterday, much of it well below 200m, less than 100m round my way!! I thought that I heard something very big an heavy in the area Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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