Quote from: jcf on October 02, 2022, 02:18:08 PMProbably a Nanchang CJ-6, there are a few on the Australian register.

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Could be.  It would give the correct silhouette.

Hurricane G-HHII just flown over

F/A-18 Hornet with a Hawk on its wing. I thought they were a little faster than usual for landing approach.

Heard but didn't see a jet going over the house yesterday.  As yesterday saw the annual "Round the Bay" sponsored bicycle ride I suspect this was an RAAF F/A18 showing the cyclists just how quickly a lap can be done.

Yesterday was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. While bringing Mum and her friends back from the 90th birthday they went to I spied a Gnat, soaring high over North Weald.
They were too busy gossiping to pay any attention to it!

Not too many of them still flying. 

While mowing the lawn I heard an interesting sound over the mower so I shut the mower down and looked around to see a low flying aircraft appear directly over the house roof, I couldn't believe what I was seeing! A Dragon Rapide! I was torn between just watching it or running inside to get my phone for it's camera. Decided to go get the phone so I would have some proof that I had seen it, but by the time I had done so it was quite far away and higher up but luckily it was circling. These two pics are the best I could manage as the phone camera kept focusing on tree's or T.V. antennas instead of the F'ing plane.    hopefully they are good enough to make out what it is.You cannot view this attachment.You cannot view this attachment. 

Pretty cool!
I take your word for it being a Dragon Rapide... 

Unfortunately, mate, the first one looks like a flying penguin & the second is just a blurry, generic biplane. Good effort, though! At least you tried!  

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Ah, looking at it, that's the one I zoomed in on for the first pic.

That wing shape says Dragon Rapide for sure, so elegant. 

One of my fave aeroplanes as it was the first one I ever flew in. OK, it was an RAF Dominie actually, but it was 99% Dragon Rapide.

After doing some asking around to people in the know it turns out that the Dragon Rapide was restored and is based only about 50km away so I will likely see it again.

Also the Stampe Sv4 that I seen a couple of weeks ago is also at the same airstrip for a while, maybe permanently.

A couple of mornings ago, I watch these contrails coming from the east. Three of them in formation.
This morning right now, they're back --- only there's four of them this time, on the same track too.

The first three I could see the sun glinting off the aircraft, but not this morning. They're much too high to identify too.

Quote from: kitnut617 on October 19, 2022, 07:13:43 AMA couple of mornings ago, I watch these contrails coming from the east. Three of them in formation.
This morning right now, they're back --- only there's four of them this time, on the same track too.

The first three I could see the sun glinting off the aircraft, but not this morning. They're much too high to identify too.

AFGSC restarted Chrome Dome patrols, and didn't tell anyone.