Seen Over Your House Today

rallymodeller · March 28, 2009, 06:42:34 PM

Didn't get any pics, but the US Border Patrol S-70 Blackhawk was flying around over Port Huron, MI on Thursday. At first I thought it was a regular Blackhawk, but then I saw its big ol' gold stripe.

Captain Canada · March 28, 2009, 08:01:22 PM

We were at Paddy's on Friday and I saw an EC-135 ( is that what Enbridge flies ? ) in all white eith either a blue or green band.....thatought it was a border patrol type.

I saw a Customs Blackhawk a few years back, same thing, looked ordinary until you see the gold stripe !

Blackhawks are cool.

Mossie · March 29, 2009, 12:33:29 PM

Two today, just the old yella Sea King & Police MD902.

Howard of Effingham · March 30, 2009, 01:13:18 AM

yesterday....

what looked like a hawker sea fury [replica or otherwise] in all over blue and RAN markings
on finals into coventry airport.

about 10 minutes ago.....

a dakota taking off [well more of an airborne stagger into the air really]

Chris707 · April 01, 2009, 05:38:57 PM

A little off the usual, but it was above the house, so: ISS made a magnificent flyby 8:05-8:11pm tonight at a -2.3 magnitude - it was brighter than some high-altitude airliners. That is a powerline, not a star streaks...

A few minutes before (about 20 minutes after sundown) a 911th AW Herk flew by - had to blast the gamma correction up on that one...

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KiwiZac · April 01, 2009, 11:08:02 PM

Just before midday today we had a visitor overhead at work......Spitfire IXc ZK-SPI/PV270, very recently returned to flight.
Made two circuits of the field around 1000ft, did one over the central city then returned to Ohakea AFB.

I've waited eight years to see this aircraft over my hometown. A day of strong emotions for this whiffer

And no pics - next weekend is the Classic Fighters Omaka airshow, public debut of PV270. You'll get your pics on Monday April 13.

If you wanna see them, of course.

PR19_Kit · April 02, 2009, 01:42:42 AM

In Chepstow y'day we had a Chinook doing a circuit of the town at VERY low level, almost literally 'beating the air into submission'!

My wife, as is her wont, stood in the middle of the car park and waved to it, and when asked why she told the questioner 'It's my daughter up there!' She seems to think that every Chinook we see has got our daughter on board for some reason. (The daughter in question is an Air Traffic Controller at Odiham where the Wokkas are based)

Hawkeye · April 02, 2009, 07:54:21 AM

A sure sign of spring, the power company has begun surveying their high tension powerlines by helicopter. I missed it on its first pass over the house. We have a substation near us and they follow each trunk of lines outwards from it. Wished I had caught him directly over the house, he's only about 50 feet off the ground...just above the power lines. Last summer there was a technician sitting on a platform doing repairs as they found the need. Here he is going east away from me.

They do this a couple times a year. One day when I was without a good camera he was in and out of the area for a couple of hours.

Mossie · April 02, 2009, 08:03:14 AM

A few today at York Uni, a couple of fast jets high in the sky (they were just dots unfortunately) & a small GA type I didn't recognise. On the way home, there was a Lynx AH.7 circling around a village.

lancer · April 02, 2009, 08:33:14 AM

Quote from: Mossie on April 02, 2009, 08:03:14 AM
A few today at York Uni, a couple of fast jets high in the sky (they were just dots unfortunately) & a small GA type I didn't recognise. On the way home, there was a Lynx AH.7 circling around a village.

So was it doimg a recce or setting up for a strafing run down the high street???

Mossie · April 02, 2009, 10:15:51 AM

There was a couple of locals standing & pointing so they could have been a SAS insertion team. I hear it can get pretty rough in the village Pub!

upnorth · April 04, 2009, 03:16:30 AM

The Czech police Bell 412 made a decently low pass over the area where one of the schools I teach for is located just as I was heading into work yesterday.

I haven't seen their 412 in a while, usually I just see their Eurocopter and I can't keep Eurocopters straight in my head. The Twin Huey/Griffon is a pretty distinctive shape by comparison.

Aircav · April 04, 2009, 08:46:44 AM

Quote from: upnorth on April 04, 2009, 03:16:30 AM
The Czech police Bell 412 made a decently low pass over the area where one of the schools I teach for is located just as I was heading into work yesterday.

I haven't seen their 412 in a while, usually I just see their Eurocopter and I can't keep Eurocopters straight in my head. The Twin Huey/Griffon is a pretty distinctive shape by comparison.

EC-135 has a fan tail and a EC-145 has a tail rotor or the early has a later type tail and the late has a early type tail

upnorth · April 04, 2009, 10:05:43 AM

Quote from: Aircav on April 04, 2009, 08:46:44 AM
Quote from: upnorth on April 04, 2009, 03:16:30 AM
The Czech police Bell 412 made a decently low pass over the area where one of the schools I teach for is located just as I was heading into work yesterday.

I haven't seen their 412 in a while, usually I just see their Eurocopter and I can't keep Eurocopters straight in my head. The Twin Huey/Griffon is a pretty distinctive shape by comparison.

EC-135 has a fan tail and a EC-145 has a tail rotor or the early has a later type tail and the late has a early type tail

Thanks Aircav, all clear now!

In more recent Czech air traffic news.....

Just watched Air Force One pull into Prague airport on the news. Man, do they keep the bare metal parts of that aircraft shiny! It's like the White House has a controlling intrest in Turtle Wax or something.

Chris707 · April 05, 2009, 02:21:34 PM

Caught this fellow departing while I was out in the front garden

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