Lee Rowley Posted October 9, 2024 Share Posted October 9, 2024 From on board the Sky Princess, 3 pm (GMT-1) Wednesday 9 October central Atlantic about 46 hours sailing time from St John, NB, Canada. RCAF Agusta Westland CH-149 Cormrant in process of undertaking a critical patient medivac to Canada. A brave crew of aviators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted October 10, 2024 Share Posted October 10, 2024 An Apache heli just flew over, heading towards Hull. Impressive machine.  Wasn't as close as @Peter Miller sees them of course 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payneib Posted October 10, 2024 Share Posted October 10, 2024 10 minutes ago, GrumpyGnome said: An Apache heli just flew over, heading towards Hull. Impressive machine. s close as @Peter Miller 🙂 That should sort out the bike pinching toe rags in certain areas of the city. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted October 23, 2024 Share Posted October 23, 2024 Swans.  Swarms of the ...!  They have been inhabiting the barley field next to the house for nearly a week now. Started off with about a dozen, then growing in numbers, counted 36 in the field yesterday and they are feeding on the spilled barley from the autumn harvest, working their way across the field and getting closer to the house. There's a flooded part in the dip in the field so they can have a paddle and feast on the invertebrates brought out in that wet bit.  Hadn't actually seen any in flight until this morning as we were having breakfast when my wife - a veteran of many hundreds of viewings of Battle of Britain and so very well trained -shouted "11 o-clock!" and there they were, about ten of them, gear down, full flaps and making a curved approach to land in the field. The light hasn't been great for photographs and its a big field, so it's only as they have got closer to the house that they are getting into range for a decent picture or two. Hope to catch the whole squadron taking off or landing, if I'm lucky.  For us, the many crows are Stukas, pigeons are Mosquitoes, swallows are Spitfires, the vast formations of geese are 'einkels and there was much discussion on what swans are - the conclusion my pal Bob suggested was Sunderlands and I think that fits perfectly. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted October 31, 2024 Share Posted October 31, 2024 Although a few weeks back, afternoon/one evening many thousands of Geese flew over our house, to the reed beds on the south side of the Ribble, now I suspect most have moved on. Why, do i think this? Most years I have seen groups of hundreds flying locally during the day, generally a bit lower, manly it is there direction of flight.  So far this year I have seen or heard perhaps two groups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futura57 Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 This Kent Air Ambulance AW169 circled over my house today while I was working in the garden. It landed on the Woldingham village green about 200 metres from my house. Apparently picking up an accident victim at a 4 house building development in the village. Someone fell off scaffolding like I did 9 years ago. Nice heli.  20250402_132728~2.mp4    2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lee Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2  ‘Aerial’ view of A400 passing over neighbouring house, doing circuits at Liverpool airport today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepeiro Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Once a year during the festival the red arrows fly almost directly over our house (maybe a hundred meters off) on the way to Edinburgh castle.  they start the smoke pretty much bang on above us, I know this as I always forget and hear it and by the time I’m in my garden that’s all I see. Have never seen them yet. It’s been four years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futura57 Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 11 minutes ago, shepeiro said: Once a year during the festival the red arrows fly almost directly over our house (maybe a hundred meters off) on the way to Edinburgh castle.  they start the smoke pretty much bang on above us, I know this as I always forget and hear it and by the time I’m in my garden that’s all I see. Have never seen them yet. It’s been four years You snooze, you lose 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 - Moderator Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2  Merlin helicopter, the one you see on the news today off Welsh coast in the feature about HMS Dauntless working up to red sea deployment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepeiro Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 14 hours ago, Futura57 said: You snooze, you lose 😉 Snoozing is part of the landscape when dadding.  this year the boy is old enough not to forgive me for at least a day or two so need to prep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilC57 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 A pair of Merlin helicopters. They went around several times at a couple of hundred feet  while I was in the back garden cutting the grass this morning, but unfortunately being a dull day my pics were not very good. I live not too far from MOD Abbey Wood (the ministry procurement place in Bristol), and I think they land near there sometimes to show the ministry staff what they’re spending our money on.  Indeed a couple of years ago I was cycling near there, and a military Puma was going in and out of a local playing field giving what appeared to be civilian MOD staff joyrides around the area.  1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGB 953 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 I saw a post somewhere about the route aircraft will take for the VE day commemoration, has anyone see it mapped, IÂ gather it comes in across north East London? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGB 953 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 2 hours ago, EGB 953 said: I saw a post somewhere about the route aircraft will take for the VE day commemoration, has anyone see it mapped, IÂ gather it comes in across north East London? Found this:Â https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/press25/ve-day2025/ve-day-80-flypast-2025.htm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Griff Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Spitfire down in field near Hythe, Kent. Close to a friend's house, more later... Â Happened hours ago so must have made TV news... Â No casualties thankfully... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul De Tourtoulon Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Yes sadly another one down, it looks like the two-seater, plenty of videos and reports on youboob, no casualties thankfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4  Text book forced landing, with what looks like minimal damage. Thankfully no casualties,  but she'll be out of action for a while. Talk at the field a few months back with someone in the business and they observed it was only a matter of time before there was an accident with a paying customer on board and that might change everything in the experience flights world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Taylor Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 This old beast dropped in to Sandown Airport yesterday for a (very) short visit. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wihtgar Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 An Air Atlantique one came to Sandown in the late 1980's when NDN Aircraft were looking at replacing the engines with P&W PT6 turbines. Â I can also remember a Blackburn Beverly coming in regularly in the mid 1960's to Sandown Airport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 Heard him go over, but by the time I got outside with the camera he was disappearing into the murk in the distance. I knew where he was headed, so jumped in the car and grabbed a few snaps. The Spitfire TR9 is back for a few days carrying those lucky fare-paying rear seaters. Very murky conditions, but repositioning for his landing gave a decent view of the descent and flare out to land. Â Â Â 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 Nice! Well captured......  Nothing quite as exotic here - the line surveying heli was at the bottom of the garden yesterday - I knew they were coming as they ring about our NOTAM.  I keep meaning to grab my phone but me and the dogs just run outside excited, like a 10 year old me.  The RAF kept well above our NOTAM but I had the pleasure of three Typhoons (sadly the modern version) playing tig above our house in the afternoon. The game seemed to be for the clean aircraft to catch the one with ordnance on its wings. Lots of impressively tight turns, and enough noise to make the earth shake.  I'm sure I'm not the only one to leave the house as soon as I hear aircraft. Or am I? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 Ta - could have done with a slower shutter speed so as not to freeze the prop, but it was very hazy and the blustery wind meant keeping the camera shake down wasn't the easiest job, plus she was a long way away most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICHARD WILLS Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 Well done Leccy . That shows off the Mk9s lines beautifully . Even with the additional goldfish bowl .😬 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 Whoever it was got a great flight, with some biiiiiiig loops and lovely slow barrel rolls. Four grand for 20 minutes though.😮 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 We all have different views on what is 'good value'........ mine is that I can think of a 1043 better ways to spend £4K 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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