Seen Over Your House Today

[NARSES2]

The UK ceremony was held at the National Memorial Arboretum and one of the memorials they focused on was a simple stretch of old railway line replete with wreaths in tribute to all those who worked in labour camps building them out there. Very simple, very moving.

[zenrat]

Our prime minister has been filmed at a commemorative event at the National War Memorial in Canberra.  They sat him in front of a Sea Fury.

Yes, I watched it this morning.

Quite moving in a very unpretentious way, too.

There are worse things to be sat in front of than a Sea Fury.

Yes, but they could have chosen an aircraft we actually operated in WW2.

[Old Wombat]

Our prime minister has been filmed at a commemorative event at the National War Memorial in Canberra.  They sat him in front of a Sea Fury.

Yes, I watched it this morning.

Quite moving in a very unpretentious way, too.

There are worse things to be sat in front of than a Sea Fury.

Yes, but they could have chosen an aircraft we actually operated in WW2.

I think they may have chosen the location with an eye to having the P-40 diorama behind the speakers, rather than what was behind the dignitaries.

However, it's an interesting question as to why a Sea Fury is in that area, as they only saw combat in Korea, from memory ..... & why is there a FAA aircraft in with the RAAF aircraft?

[zenrat]

I did see the Warhawk there too.  And the speakers were more important than the pollies.
Last time I went there G for George was on display (Lancaster) in memory of all the Aussies and Kiwis who died in bomber command.

I suppose we should just be happy Scotty from Marketing didn't insist he was filmed in front of the Huey display.

[Captain Canada]

With the float down taking pace tomorrow, the coast guard is here and ready. They had a bunch of RHIBs and other boats lined up for tomorrow as well. I'' go to the river tomorrow and grab some pics of the action, I hope.

117945646_10224028445365215_6773822116760083968_n by Todd Pomerleau, on Flickr

[Rheged]

About 7:30 this evening, a pair of Chinooks southbound, very low (under 250 feet) and very fast, and  playing Old Harry with television reception.

[Rheged]

Just after 11 this morning, we were going into Hereford, when we were overflown by a Spitfire PRXI (PL983).........the one that's currently doing the rounds of NHS sites.  Too far away for photos, but to see it silhouetted against a rather dramatic cloudscape makes one realise what a pretty little aircraft it is.

[zenrat]

Roused from my lunch by one heck of a racket I rushed outside (without my phone or a camera) to see the air ambulance (Augusta-Westland AW-139) going past just above the treetops (so about 70 to 80 feet).
I think it had just taken off from the football oval at the end of the road.

Here's someone else's picture.

[zenrat]

2:30 am.  Helicopter just went over low showing no lights.  Cloud base is low tonight but this sounded lower than that.  Nothing on the tracking site so I assume it was military on its way to HMAS Cerberus and had its transponder off.

That or one of Chris's black ones checking up on me...



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20 minutes later it went over again going the other way.  Just enough time for it to fly to Cerberus, drop off whoever was in it and fly back.

[NARSES2]

That or one of Chris's black ones checking up on me...

If it had been, you wouldn't of known 

[Rheged]

2:30 am.  Helicopter just went over low showing no lights.  Cloud base is low tonight but this sounded lower than that.  Nothing on the tracking site so I assume it was military on its way to HMAS Cerberus and had its transponder off.

That or one of Chris's black ones checking up on me...

At least you rate a proper helicopter. I've just had a black microlight  flying low over us, making a terrible row whilst converting valuable hydrocarbon into noise and annoyance. 

[JayBee]

No photos, sorry, but yesterday there was a Cessna 208 flying procedures here but then I heard something rather louder. Looking out the windo I saw a four ship formation of single turbine types heading SSE but I could not confirm what they were.
I now know that it was four new A-29 Super Tucanos on delivery to the Afghan AF.

[PR19_Kit]

I now know that it was four new A-29 Super Tucanos on delivery to the Afghan AF.

That's a LONG flight ahead of them. I hope they know some friendly places to refuel. 

[JayBee]

I would expect somewhere in SE England would be next and then onwards. Possibly not a night stop here as the weather about to hit us is not meant to be so nice.

[perttime]

I'm sure I saw the Afghan Super Tucanos mentioned in some sort of news. There was supposed to be a Dornier 228 flying with them for support.