Seen Over Your House Today

[Mossie]

Where's Todd, is he ill???  The last two picture posts have had Sea Kings in & he hasn't commented, surely something must be wrong!!!

Haha.....good one ! Both lovely examples, if you ask me !  I think the RAF should use yellow Sea Kings forever.....they've got to be just as ( if not moreso ) recognizable to Joe Public as the Red Arrows !

Give it just a few more years & it probably counts as forever!!!   I do remember yellow Wessex's (stayed in service with the local flight of 202 Sqn for many years), although I think the RAF started getting the HAR's in 1977, just a year after I was born.  So as far I can remember, it has been forever!

[JayBee]

Ha! I can better that. I have been winched up into a yellow Whirlwind.

Jim

[Mossie]

Closest I've come is a Wessex landed in a field very close by to me while I was doing my paper round!

[bobbo]

Just got back from picking up my motor scooter - it left me sit with a broken throttle cable - and while loading it on the pickup truck, I watched a C-17 from DAFB making a tight turn overhead.  That thing really seems to move like a fighter compared to the C-5s. 

Just another typical "daily air show" from Dover AFB.

Bobbo

[lancer]

Ha! I can better that. I have been winched up into a yellow Whirlwind.

Jim

Had a ride in a Whirlwind around Portland dockyard when I was there on summer camp with my cadet unit many moons ago.  Noisey but great fun for a bunch of starry eyed cadets....It wasn't yellow though.

[Chris707]

Landing here a few minutes ago:



Chris
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[upnorth]

Just got out of the shower this morning and was running to the bedroom to answer my phone.

I picked up the phone and about 10 seconds into the call a two ship of Hinds went past nice and low over the neighborhood. I could see them clear as day through the window and they were close enough for pictures.

Of course the phone call is urgent, work related and can't wait.

I'm taking the call on the mobile so it's camera is out of the question.

The normal camera is on the other side of the room and all the batteries are charging.

I know....excuses, excuses

But pictures or not it was a great way to start the day

[Army of One]

Pictures would have been as good as a kick in the goolies for me....! Love the Hind and would love to see one in its natural habitat.....I have been in the ex East German one that was at Duxford years ago while in one of the hangars......closest I've come to seeing anything like that was a Mi 14 when on holiday in 1988 in Yugoslavia....no pics either....

[Spey_Phantom]

a German Navy Seaking Mk.41 (in anniversery colors) just overflew my house heading to the Netherlands 

[Howard of Effingham]

yesterday i saw a RAF C-17 on approach to birmingham airport over leamington spa quite by chance while on a passing bus.

very impressive.

[Spey_Phantom]

noted today was a Belgian Navy Alouette III and (quite rare here) a Zlin 142 with wingtip tanks 

[Chris707]

A couple of US Airways Express landings this morning:

[Captain Canada]

Had something funny fly over the other day....wifey and a few friends saw it, but not me. Far as I can gather it was a Harvard II....maybe. She did get this grainy pic



Then the day after that she saw what she thought was a Dak. I'm assuming both a/c were heading to Oshkosh.

Saw this Herc tonite...

[thedarkmaster]

been going through the files and found these.


all in and around Nottinghan East Midlands Airport


















this is the Dreamliner that flew over the Rolls Royce factory the other week, they are from a friend

[Mossie]

When did Derbyshire become a Peoples Republic???