Seen Over Your House Today

[Spey_Phantom]

yesterday when i went home from work, a Royal Danish Air Force SAAB Safari overflew ostend.
today, i just a Belgian Air Force C-130H passing over low level 

[GTX]

Well on the walk to the car to head home yesterday, I watched a F-111 and a pair of Super Hornets flyover low and fast...

Savour that one, probably never happened before & won't be happeing again!

I expect to see it a few more times this year yet - I have the benefit of a window that looks out onto the runway.  Mind you, the Super Hornets are louder than the Pig.

Regards,

Greg

[nev]

Well the chopper fun continued at work Thursday - 4pm a big dirty Sea King flew over low and slow, then about 8pm in the gathering gloom a Chinook & Lynx flew over in close formation. Even cooler since the Wokka has its slime lights on  

Certainly lots going on this week - Tucanos yanking and banking at low level, C-17 sighted round Lincoln at tree-top height.  Just like the old days

[JJC]

seen a weird group of planes today, at medium height, first a KC-135 and then another KC-135 'escorting' a blue 747 jumbo about 15 seconds later and directly behind the first KC-135, anyone any clues? they were heading East to West

[Nick]

Isn't Air Force One (aka VC-25) painted with a blue underside? You might have seen a US diplomatic aircraft en-route somewhere and/or practising mid-air refueling.

IIRC the pilots practice with an E-4 rather than the actual VC-25s.

[JJC]

Isn't Air Force One (aka VC-25) painted with a blue underside? You might have seen a US diplomatic aircraft en-route somewhere and/or practising mid-air refueling.

IIRC the pilots practice with an E-4 rather than the actual VC-25s.

i was thinking something like that, but don't really know much about the subject in question!

[Jschmus]

Had a bit of a scare last night.  We were sitting down to dinner last night when my brother collapsed, complaining of sharp, stabbing pains in his chest.  The paramedics thought it might have been a (mild) heart attack, so they took him to the ER at Tallahassee Memorial.  They kept him overnight so they could run some tests.  He got through the tests and they determined it was severe angina, but they released him this afternoon around 1530.  I spent the day with him, and I got to see the local LifeNet helo (EC-135) come in to land a couple of times.

[Captain Canada]

seen a weird group of planes today, at medium height, first a KC-135 and then another KC-135 'escorting' a blue 747 jumbo about 15 seconds later and directly behind the first KC-135, anyone any clues? they were heading East to West

Now that is something cool !

[Captain Canada]

Another pair of A-10s had the audacity to interupt the MotoGP race by circling Chateau Pomerleau.....the nerve ! I had to press pause and everything......

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Coming back to civilisation from resitting my exams near Christchurch on Wednesday last (7th April). Travelling north between Salisbury and Marlborough, there was a Chinook playing hide'n seek around the low hills to the east of the main road, it disapeared for a while, so I assumed it was headed back to Middle Wallop for tea and medals as it was around 1700 local. But it popped-up, literally from behind a small village just I was driving into it - cannot recall which village - then crossed over the road and dropped behind some more low hills heading roughly westward again..... Superb !!

Sort of on the subject:
Anybody here lives in Dorset or Western Hampshire, I highly recommend that you make time to go to the Bournemouth Flying club cafe on the north-western side of the airport. Friendly, welcoming, great view over the whole airfield especially the Flight Systems/FRADU unit with their aggresive 'Falcon Jets'. Superb (but not cheap) burgers too.... Mmmmmm

Ian

[lancer]

Another pair of A-10s had the audacity to interupt the MotoGP race by circling Chateau Pomerleau.....the nerve ! I had to press pause and everything......

The nerve of them!!! You shoulda shot 'em down Toad san! That'd teach them to interrupt your motorsport..

[bobbo]

Coming out of the local convenience store with a cup of coffee in one hand, a bag with my morning newspaper and a few donuts in the other, and ANOTHER bright yellow crop duster goes overhead . . .

bobbo

[pyro-manic]

Coming back to civilisation from resitting my exams near Christchurch on Wednesday last (7th April). Travelling north between Salisbury and Marlborough, there was a Chinook playing hide'n seek around the low hills to the east of the main road, it disapeared for a while, so I assumed it was headed back to Middle Wallop for tea and medals as it was around 1700 local. But it popped-up, literally from behind a small village just I was driving into it - cannot recall which village - then crossed over the road and dropped behind some more low hills heading roughly westward again..... Superb !!

Sort of on the subject:
Anybody here lives in Dorset or Western Hampshire, I highly recommend that you make time to go to the Bournemouth Flying club cafe on the north-western side of the airport. Friendly, welcoming, great view over the whole airfield especially the Flight Systems/FRADU unit with their aggresive 'Falcon Jets'. Superb (but not cheap) burgers too.... Mmmmmm

Ian

Might just have to do that one day, as I live just East of Dorchester. I get the FRADU Falcons tooling around at low level quite a bit.

[anthonyp]

Does seeing an MRAP RG33 Ambulance version, Bradley M2A3 and Bradley M7A3 BFIST count as "plane spotting?"  Cause we got them in the bay at work in the last two weeks.

Did I mention I guided the RG33 and M2A3 into the bay?  Yeah, highlight of my last two weeks...

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Has anyone here ever seen a C-130 pulling a high-g, 180deg starboard turn at approx 150ft/50m OVER THEIR HOUSE ??

No ?

Well it happened around 1445 (local) today. Even Mrs. Hunter-Gatherer seemed impressed. Cannot imagine why, we are certainly not in a designated low-flying area, in fact I'd be willing to bet that the Air Traffic Controllers at RAF Woodvale, just 3Km from our house were seriously unimpressed !!

Ian