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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2475 on: April 03, 2016, 07:52:45 PM »
Late as usual...

Yesterday morning about 10.30 near Northampton I saw the ex BBMF Dove on what must have been a test flight following the service she was undergoing in the Classic Flight hangar before Christmas.

Then I spotted about 120 club members and committee members in a big huddle...

Then I saw a very cheeky Jackdaw looking out of his (or her) front door (a hole in the rudder of the Guppy)  We should have waited to see how it came back, cos I reckon that must be some great flying skill)
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2476 on: April 03, 2016, 11:56:46 PM »
We saw the second two of those spots too  :D
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2477 on: April 12, 2016, 06:12:08 PM »
5 pm ish today something very meaty flew over  going East,but of course too much cloud to see what it was!!
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2478 on: May 07, 2016, 04:02:12 PM »
Oh how exciting!!! Actually something to look at here in the wilds of Nottinghamshire...
A Jet Provost flew over the village going North
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2479 on: May 16, 2016, 02:43:37 PM »
Some form of learjet type aircraft doing circuits over Pompey Harbour and Portsdown Hill, assuming it is military and perhaps testing the radar on top of the hill, but too high up for me to distinguish if it is RAF or RN....pretty sure it's not a Sentinel though.
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2480 on: May 25, 2016, 07:26:50 PM »
Two Boeing Stearmans of the Breitling "Flying Circus" or whatever they're called now, formation flying over Chedworth Roman Villa, as I found out, two miles from Rendcomb today, 2p.m..
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« Reply #2481 on: May 26, 2016, 09:00:27 PM »
A 400m going round and round the garden (like a teddy bear? ;)) this afternoon.

Then an 8 Sqn Sentry this evening - it's almost like the R.A.F. are trying to make a come back here!

That's probably more R.A.F. aircraft than I'll see in the air for the rest of the summer...
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2482 on: June 02, 2016, 07:30:05 PM »
THREE  Chinooks in formation over the M1/M6 junction going south :)
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2483 on: June 02, 2016, 11:26:54 PM »
Quote from: jocelyn on June 02, 2016, 07:30:05 PM
THREE  Chinooks in formation over the M1/M6 junction going south :)

Close up that must have been a great sound.
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2484 on: June 06, 2016, 12:04:51 PM »
Oh Joy!! a King Air just gone over.
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2485 on: June 06, 2016, 05:16:01 PM »
B52 over the house, on a direct bearing from Fairford, then started a long, slow turn, perhaps he forgot his sandwiches!
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2486 on: June 06, 2016, 08:47:33 PM »
Quote from: scampton61 on June 06, 2016, 05:16:01 PM
B52 over the house, on a direct bearing from Fairford, then started a long, slow turn, perhaps he forgot his sandwiches!

Can a B52 do anything other than a long, slow turn? ;)
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2487 on: June 07, 2016, 08:13:42 AM »
That funny thing came over yesterday afternoon.
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2488 on: June 07, 2016, 10:53:16 PM »
Sorry to hear you are feeling funny, Dee!

Yesterday the Classic flight Anson had her first Airtest, there is talk of the Heron flying some time soon.

R.A.F. Herc at what passes for low level these days down near Northampton this afternoon.
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Re: Spotted
« Reply #2489 on: June 10, 2016, 07:46:59 AM »
Vulcan Scrubbers on tour have spotted over the last 2 day...F15's , KC tankers, Hercs, and
Ospreys and to top it all off  2 B 52's Right over our heads at Lakenheath!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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