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What flew over your house (yesterday)

i live in a lovely area,i can spot the police helicopter overhead just about any day i choose lol
 
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Just had an Apache Longbow, right now. My first decent spot this year.
 
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just mentioned this to my missus and she wondered if its anything to do with the 6 poor chaps that lost their lives recently. a formation in a "6" as respect.
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Wonder if it is something to do with this recent practice to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee?

See 20 in formation here in the formation of 60 Tucano planes practise formations for Queen's Diamond Jubilee | The Sun |News

Rich
 
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And at 12:37 today, just a little Avro Vulcan ! Weston, near Stafford.
 
If we had a chimney it would of been taken off this morning of a very loud and low Merlin... Me thinks that yet another poor sole has washed to sea on his Li-Lo..... Always the same as soon as the sun comes out, so does the Merlin.

Ian M
 
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Nice one Hoggat.

Did you now it was flying today or was it a great bit of luck ?

My story starts thus: Daughter No1 was about 5 miles away at her friends house. She phones me all excited saying she had just seen the Vulcan. What a proud moment, not only did she identify the Vulcan, but also got quited excited by actually seeing it in the air. But I was thinking, no, she must be mistaken, but what else could she have seen. So, I carry on washing the car, a bit dissapointed that I might have missed the Vulcan. Every time I hear a noise in the sky I look up, but nothing. And then, the noise, I thought it can only be one thing, a quick spin of my head and there flying right towards my house was the Vulcan. It continued towards me and turned right over my house, well not just my house, mine and about 3 others up the road. But for the purpose of my story, it was mine, and mine alone. It then turned and headed off Easterly going home I think.

It turns out there was a Falklands Memorial Dedication, at the National Arbouretum, Alrewas. This is I think where the Vulcan had been today.
 
yeah i knew it was flying i follow her :) i live a stones throw away from the airport :) i went down there at 9:30 and waited for her to leave i knew she was going about 11:30 - 11:45 ish but didnt want to get caught up in the crowd .. hense how i was in just a good place for the photos,

The last flight she did she had fuel problems so this was the first flight since they fixed the problem and since she has had her nice new shiney paintwork, she took off the landing gear went up then she banked sharp while fetching the landing gear down again, then she banked hard over inline with the runway.. started coming in low (by this time people was talking about maybe a problem and with the last problem of the fuel) then the landing gear disappeared back up and she ripped it open with an amazing low fly by and banked it straight over where every one was stood... was awesome

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this one her coming back in when we thought maybe a problem.

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the supporting crowd ..

yes she had been there and did a fly over raf cosford ..

Shane

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This weekend have had two Spits and a P-51 and for the first time about a week ago I saw a P-47 doing its thang.....man it's good living in Duxford bring on the airs how season!

Chris
 
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Nice shot of that bird, I think it might be a crow !!
 
I had a couple of pigeons and magpies fly over the roof about 5 mins ago, do they count?:grinball2:

Its been a hot day!

Tom
 
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Near Stafford, 4th June about 12.30. Spotted a Harvard (or is it a Texan, I don't know the difference) but any way, it flew right over the house, finished in a really bright yellow.
 
Sorry, not over our house, but Bala Lake, Nth. Wales..............

We were having a few days camping last week, and a Monday being their regular 'playday' we were buzzed off and on by Shiny black Gnat fighters From RAF Valley, I presume? They flew so low and fast (the wing span was the width of my handspan) that they were over head before we heard anything......frightened the Mem Sahib to death! They went off screaming down the lake to 'bomb' Bala town.....no bad thing some might say!

Around midday a C41? came over slow and very low....Luckily, we heard him coming some way off!

Cheers,

Ron

Mods, as they weren't over my house as such (although we were in our camper van. lol) feel free to delete this post........
 
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They went off screaming down the lake to 'bomb' Bala town.....no bad thing some might say!
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They do actually use the local towns as "targets" after taking out the dams so we're use to having aircraft scream overhead, I'm in Denbigh so we get hit more than usual as there are 4 lakes/dams up on the Denbigh Moors...
 
i stayed in a farmhouse up on the hills above glan conwy a few years ago and was rudely awoken on the monday morning by a hawk from valley flying over aat what i estimated to be about 75 ft,it happened on and off for a few days until i spoke to the farmer and he took me up to a slightly higher field and showed me a cross painted on his roof. apparently the used it to test their targeting.
 
Im at this moment in time sat upstairs with my two grand children and we could hear the roar of two Apache helicopters fly past the bedroom window, even though it is absolutely chucking it down.

They looked nice though, first time i have seen any of these helicopters, they looked really impressive...

Tom
 
Here in Vermont I am less than a mile away from the Vermont Air National Guard. We can hear and see F-16's flying in and out of the airport here. They rattle our windows. :P
 
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