Seen Over Your House Today

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Bout 30mins ago, Tonka went past the station heading northwest then banked to the west. Quite slow but bl**dy low. We're at sea level and it went past BELOW our window height !

Ian

[entlim]

bloody loud eh?

[B777LR]

bloody loud eh?

Åre Tørnadø's just ås løud frøm abøve ånd side, ås they åre frøm belløv?

[PR19_Kit]

Åre Tørnadø's just ås løud frøm abøve ånd side, ås they åre frøm belløv?

Tonkas are loud from ANY direction, especially from Denmark.

Somewhere I have a pic of a 4-ship GR4 flight taken from the threshold caravan at Lossie, all four in full burner. That was so  loud it HURT, even with ear defenders on. 

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Ahhhh Kit, don't get me started on memories of Lossie..... first time I ever went up there was in the 'Brick' days....... Glorious, simply glorious......

Ian
Nostalgia simply isn't what it used to be 

[Aircav]

I found this picture of a crazy Italian in a Tornado
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd80/cenciotti/varie/Tornado_low-pass.jpg

[PR19_Kit]

Ian,

I've been there during the 'Bricks Rule' too.

Just before 208 Sqdn. had to go out to Gulf War 1 (to help the Tonkas do their job....) I was there for almost a week. They were practicing low 'lay-down' drops over Tain Range and came back across the Moray Firth at the same altitude. I hope they didn't meet any ships en route!

The Sqdn. photographer gave me a large  poster size piccie of three Buccs over the lighthouse during their last week of operations, and it's still on my model room now. Fantastic stuff.

[upnorth]

Someone was throwing a Zlin 142 (maybe 242) around this afternoon from the local airport.

I could see it from a tram stop where I was waiting. Lots of loops and rolls and quite entertaining while I was waiting for my tram.

[Aircav]

Did it look anything like this ?

[B777LR]

Did it look anything like this ?

Looks like those i saw in Prague. Nasty things, they are everywhere! They are like railways in the middle of the street!

[Aircav]

Wonderful things are Trams, there should be more of them 

[Jschmus]

Sometimes it really sucks, not having a camera.  The last couple of days have been beautiful, with clear skies and highs in the 60s.  I've seen all kinds of machines: WAVY's Chopper 10, a Bell 206 Longranger, a couple of C-130s, a Southwest 737 and this morning, a Coast Guard HU-25.  I was outside walking the dog (we're dogsitting for my dad) a few minutes ago when I heard the unmistakable snarl of big piston engines, coming from the southeast.  I looked back over the top of the house just in time to see a B-25 flying wingtip to wingtip with a P-51!  That was surely a beautiful sight (and sound!) to behold.  I watched them till they disappeared over the horizon.  *sigh*

[Lord Darth Beavis]

Y'all are lucky.  All I see are MD-80s and 737s all day long.  The highlight of the past few weeks has been a 777 flying over WAY LOW on his way to DFW, and a Skyraider in gull gray and white I saw a few weeks back.

And, of course, I didn't have a charged camera!

I miss the F-15s, F-18s and A-10s from NAS New Orleans!

[upnorth]

Did it look anything like this ?

No, no, that's a cruddy old Prague tram, we've got some slick new ones in Brno. Here's mine, a Skoda 13T:



And I agree, trams are great things! I love them, they have their own lanes, faster than busses and rarely if ever get hung up in traffic.

[Aircav]

We saw some new swish Trams on the way to Prague castle near some NATO building