Seen Over Your House Today

[thedarkmaster]

Saw an RAF Sentinal doing touch and go's at East Midlands Airport today, never seen one before so that was nice     

[Mossie]

Buzzed by a Tucano earlier this afternoon, pretty low over the house.  Heard plenty more but couldn't quite see, the blight of being overlooked by a dozen other houses.

[pyro-manic]

Had a couple of Sea Kings thudding around the Yeovil area today, which is pretty normal. However, I also saw a jet trainer type (a Hawk or an Alpha Jet) going very quickly along the road between Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet, and another sighting which made me jump a little, as my first thought was "VC-10!". However, I think that's extremely unlikely as there're only a handful left, and it didn't look quite big enough, so I think it was probably a Fokker F100 or a CRJ, something like that. It was pulling fast turns at low level over the Yeovilton area though, so I don't know what it would have been up to...

[Cliffy B]

Let the dogs out after dinner and heard a low rumble in the distance.  The rumble quickly became a very loud whine of a twin engined fighter screaming by low overhead.  Missed what it was thanks to the mini forest that is the back yard.  Pretty sure it was a Super Bug but it could of been an Eagle too.


Also, not a plane but about a month back I had to take the dogs out around 1 or 2 AM and I heard a train in the near distance.  Not that uncommon as we have a set of heavily used tracks a few miles from the house.  Mostly CSX and Norfolk-Southern bringing coal through.  The odd thing was I heard the whistle blow once or twice; nice long blasts.  Then all of a sudden a sustained air raid siren went off for almost 2 minutes followed by the train whistle again.  I have NO idea what the ##$%$^ that was about and it scared the crap outta me.  Could that have been some kind of nuclear waste or ordnance train passing through town?  Anyone have any idea? 

[JJC]

thats weird dude.................................................

anyway seen an RAF chinook yesterday, high and fast going north to south

[sequoiaranger]

Of course I didn't have my camera available, but a "new" type of blimp I have not before seen appeared in the skies. Most blimps have engine pods and propellers under or by the the gondola. Not this one. I couldn't make it out completely, but I think it had an engine/propeller in its very tail. It was advertizing some product or service, but was NOT tethered. Traffic noise prevented me from hearing any engine sound, and I never got close enough to it to really tell. Actually, I am not sure it was NOT a rigid airship--I just assumed it was a blimp--but a rigid airship might well have structure capable of handling a rear engine internally. Dunno.

Anybody out there seen one of these in the States?

[frank2056]

Craig, it sounds like a Zeppelin NT. There's a company in California that offers flights in their Zeppelin NT in SF, Monterrey, LA and San Diego.

[frank2056]

For Memorial Day, four (later, five) T-6s in different liveries flew over the Veteran's Cemetery - which is a few blocks up the street - then flew south right over my house. Here are four of them:









Also, there was a blimp:



You can just make out the mooring lines.
Sorry about the grainy pictures - I set the camera to ISO 1600 a few weeks ago and forgot to bring it back to a more reasonable value.

Frank

[chrisonord]

Not over my house but interesting to see anyway, On my way down the M55 motorway in the opposite carriageway was a 4x4 towing a trailer which had a spitfire on it. The wings were off and strapped either side of the fuselage.I only knew it was a spitfire as I recognised the wing shape and the fuselage shape. Pretty unusual sighting wouldn't you say?
Chris.

[Hawkeye]

This Robinson was a surprise as it passed overhead...never seen it around here before.


A transcontinental flight arriving from somewhere as it descends enroute into Chicago O'Hare. It probably just came over the north polar route.


This is the first time I've ever seen a Sun Country aircraft in our neck of the woods. Its departing Appleton, having arrived from Minneapolis earlier...now heading to Washington DC. Best guess is it is a charter flight hauling WWII veterans to visit the WWII Memorial.

[Cliffy B]

Must be a busy day for the E-2s at Norfolk.  No less than 5 have gone over in the past few hours.  Usually only see one every few days.

[sideshowbob9]

Saw an Apache Longbow last Wednesday flying up the river Lea and today saw two UH-60s flying in the direction of Northolt(?). I know north London is a bit rough but damn! 

[Nick]

Not over my house but interesting to see anyway, On my way down the M55 motorway in the opposite carriageway was a 4x4 towing a trailer which had a spitfire on it. The wings were off and strapped either side of the fuselage.I only knew it was a spitfire as I recognised the wing shape and the fuselage shape. Pretty unusual sighting wouldn't you say?
Chris.

I've seen that Spitfire before, only going up the M4. It's a fibreglass replica they put together at airshows to raise money for a flying version or charity.

http://barkingside21.blogspot.com/2010/05/scott-biggles.html
http://www.gateguardsuk.com/index.html

[bobbo]

Not a real aircraft, but I "walked" into a photo of a model of my Dad's B-25 on line a few minutes ago. 

Here's the link . . .   

http://www.modelingmadness.com/others/shows/region4-2010/IPMS%20Region%204%202010%20019.JPG

5th air force, New Guinea, 1943-44. 

Totally freaked me out! 

And a tear or two . . . Miss you, Dad! 

William Abel
10/29/1916 - 12/11/1987

bobbo

[Chris707]

AF-1 arriving at lunchtime today:



And the PSP Jet Ranger doing security sweeps just before:




Chris
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