Seen Over Your House Today

[kitbasher]

Pssst...keep it to yourself, but a mole tells me that those of you living in the Lincoln area might be lucky enough to see a pair of Blackburn's finest operating in the local area later this year.

[Captain Canada]

Now there's a rumor I'd like to see ! Anyone want to invite me over ? I'll bring the beer !

[Captain Canada]

Saw what looked to be a USCG Herc way up in the sky.....sporting little contrails and making a heck of a racket. I was hoping that it was a HeavyLift Belfast......that way I can say I've actually seen one. The things you see when you don't have your bloddy camera.....

[jcf]

Erickson S-64 Aircrane thumping northwards looking like a big bug.

[Jschmus]

In the last 24 hours, I've seen over my house:

C-130H
CH-53E
USCG HC-130
E-2C

[ytown2010]

saw a Marine Cobra yesterday. heard the "thump thump" for about ten minutes before the helo actually appeared. also saw one of the 910th's C-130s.

[Hobbes]

The Dutch Marines are on the loose, today I saw 2 of their Hagglunds BV 206 in the town where I live. Driving on the road no less, normally they're transported on an artic.

Those tracks make quite a bit of noise, you can hear them coming from several hundred m away 

[Mossie]

Funnily enough, I tried posted a little a while ago about a BV206 in this thread, but it wiped my text when I posted so I didn't bother again, but this has stirred the memory.  I was suprised about a month ago to be passed by BV206 but the Defence School of Transport is nearby & I thought it might be one of theirs.  When I pulled along side, I realised it was being used a novelty limo!  There's been quite a proliferation of these in the last few years, Hummers, Fire Engines & the like but it was a shock to see a military vehicle!



Website with gallery:
http://www.limotrack.co.uk/index.php

[Radish]

A Typhoon has just gone over, very low too.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

They're back !

Special ops Chinook/Sea King & Commandos/Lynx are busy again. I've mentioned this before; two or three times a year, there's a joint RAF/RN (SBS/SAS) exercise centred on the gas rigs in Liverpool Bay. They use the Army training camp just across the fields from our house as a carpark & petrol station, but the really great thing is.... they use our house as the turn-in point to the upwind leg of the approach 

No pics as I've posted them here before, unless someone REALLY wants me to - Toad, I'm looking at you, eh ?

Ian

[B777LR]

A piper of some sort made some low passes over my house. Got this photo! And i even think its got spats!

[Spey_Phantom]

as i was riding allong the coas line about 40 minutes ago, i was surprised by a low passing Danish Merlin Mk.512

those things appear bigger in flight then on the ground 

[Mossie]

Last week I saw a few things on my travels to & from York.  The better weather means there's some activity at Pocklington Gliding Club, saw a glider sailing away.  More unusually, I saw three Renault Formula 1 Team trucks just outside York.  Seemed like they were making there way to the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, the old RAF Elvington runway is still operational & the YAM have fire trucks available.  Would have been nice to watch some testing going on!

Over my house, that clattery Alouette II has been back again.  I've heard some fast jet activity at night on a few occasions, but not managed to see anything.

[Spey_Phantom]

yesterday, another new A-109LUH power for the Swedish Armed Forces made a nightstop here in ostend. compared to the earlier splinter camo'd powers that landed here before, this one was overall grey, possibly for use by the swedish navy 

here's a picture, taken by the the koksijde AB spotting group that was in the area 

[retro_seventies]

The usual Galaxies, C-17s and F-16's....bonus highlights this weekend included an HH-60 pavehawk, a brace of AH-1s cobras, and 4 F-15c eagles...yum.