Seen Over Your House Today

[Mossie]

Feel better now Trev???

[Howard of Effingham]

  yes, mossie, yes! 

thank-you!

t,

[ps moderators we need a blushing smiley, i am doing just that now!]

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

well actually on the ground@wellesbourne mountford airfield at about 1000hrs....
XM655 - a tin triangle sheeted up for the winter [well over the cockpit anyway] and the intake blanks in, 

One of the best preserved Vulcans around, they still run the engines from time to time. Nice field too, always a few oddities around and they're quite relaxed about you going 'air-side' to take pics as long as you're sensible about it and ask at the tower first. Took some great pics there a few years back, of a Beech V35, still carrying its' US reg. The owner was so pleased with them he took the future Mrs. Hunter-Gatherer and I for a flight - came-up to Barton to collect us, took us back to W.M. for lunch then back to Barton. Bl**dy marvellous !

Ian

[B777LR]

Large formations flying over the house, I managed to single one out to ascertain type and markings.

It's obviously a B-1RD.

Im not so sure. Looks more like an ASW type to me...

[Howard of Effingham]

hmm, the tin triangle is still at wellesbourne mountford but when passing
on the bus on the way back from hampton lucy, there was an interesting
white US reg'd biz-jet with a red trim. it was only BAe 125-800 sized or
smaller. this was yesterday, 24/09/08.    and for some reason
the light a/c pounding the circuit here were even more noticable than at
coventry and noiser too!

[Chris707]

This fellow was around a couple of times today - maybe Brian saw him as well. This was the second pass - the first (which of course I didn't have the camera handy for) was _much_ lower!

Chris
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[sotoolslinger]

Looky what just flew over me ,Noon Pacific time ,Fresno ,CA.


F-18 coming in for touchdown

[Jschmus]

Last week before the airshow I snapped these, on two different days, naturally.


E-2C Hawkeye.  If you look closely, you can make out the multi-blade props from the Hawkeye 2000 upgrade.

[Mossie]

Two airliners, making the final approach into Humberside airport.  Humberside is a realtively small airport so to see two at once is unusual, one had to go around & flew directly over my little town, which again, is unusual.  The one that flew over looked to be a Balkan Holidays aircraft, I think it was an A320 but cigar-tube identification is not my strong point!

Not my pic, but Balkan Holidays has a pleasing livery:

[Hawkeye]

Pattern altitude is 1400 feet...most of the aircraft passing overhead are descending below that as they make their final approach to the runway.

A couple from this past week.



This one ducked under the street lamp...lol


Same lamp different aircraft...A310 FedEx making its early morning arrival.


And the last one...

It sounded like he passed through the living room.

[sequoiaranger]

OK, not over my house, but close. Miramar Naval Air Station had their Airshow day, replete with Blue Angels and all manner of flying stuff. A Corsair and an F-18 flew together. Not a great pic, but a great show!

[Mossie]

Nice!  Just finishing off a Corsair kit.

[Howard of Effingham]

The sodding Red Arrows.  The Great North Run is on tomorrow so they just had to cras the party.

don't lee look at the front of the metro freebie paper this morning as they are all
over the front of that one too in flypast mode over one of the road bridges.

[Nick]

We had a bright red helicopter land in the park next to work on Monday night. It was an MD-900 Explorer in the colours of G-EHMS, London's Air Ambulance and was accompanied by lots of police officers and a regular ambulance crew on land.

Seems that some guy jumped off a bridge onto the pavement 60ft below, missing the water. No announcement yet on why or who or if they survived.

Oddest part was the tourists paying more attention to the street performers than the incident itself....

[nev]

Saw a Chinook in the distance yesterday, then a Sea Thing as I was going into work, and a Sea Thing as I was coming back (probly the same one, pretty rare 'round here except for the SAR birds, which it wasn't)