Seen Over Your House Today

chrisonord · January 23, 2011, 03:19:43 PM

Ben seeing the Police Turbo Defender a fair bit recently, flying circuits between the M6 M65 and M61, which all converge a couple of miles from me. Very quiet aircraft an being flown in a very precise methodical pattern too. I used to see it a lot when working in Manchester.
Chris.

chrisonord · January 25, 2011, 04:36:39 PM

Yesterday whilst going through Preston centre, 2 WAH-64's came over. I pulled over and watched them as they followed the River up just beyond the docks and the veered left to go over the city centre. Was there a student protest on yesterday??

Chris.

Ian the Kiwi Herder · January 26, 2011, 09:10:03 AM

"Yesterday whilst going through Preston centre, 2 WAH-64's came over. I pulled over and watched them as they followed the River up just beyond the docks and the veered left to go over the city centre. Was there a student protest on yesterday??
Chris."

Yep they went (north) past Schloss Jackson just after 1300.... very slowly, couldn't have been doing more than 50kts

Ian

Glenn · January 31, 2011, 11:27:22 PM

I actually shot this last week heading north, out of Brisbane. I believe it's a 'Puma' and is part of the Queensland State Emergency force that were involved in our recent floods. The guys flying this (or these) choppers did a stirling job of rescuing so many stranded people from their roofs from the start to the end, that they deserve a medal, and Australia's thanks. This was taken from a distance with a 10 optical zoom, (thank god!) but had no chance shooting the number of choppers that landed and took off from Enoggera Army Camp over the flood period. As I live not 5 minutes from the camp, they took off and headed south at full bore, at about 200 feet and by the time you took the shot, the digital camera thought for a bit before shooting when it thought it was ready, hense you ended up with a beautiful shot ot the tail rotor or the sky.

Aircraft I missed, Blackhawks/ Kiowa's/ Seahawks/ Puma....this one, so it might be a ways away, but not forgotten.
Glenn

GTX · February 01, 2011, 12:11:42 AM

Just another noisy day at work with Super Hornets doing touch and go's for hours only a couple of hundred meters from my office (with a big window looking out onto the runway

).

Regards,

Greg

Mossie · February 01, 2011, 02:43:54 AM

Quote from: Glenn on January 31, 2011, 11:27:22 PM
I believe it's a 'Puma' and is part of the Queensland State Emergency force that were involved in our recent floods.

Glenn, I'm pretty sure it's an AW139. A quick check on their site shows they operate them.

Glenn · February 01, 2011, 06:16:07 PM

What ever it is, it's French.......yes, anyhow this is the second shot.
Glenn

pyro-manic · February 03, 2011, 05:21:27 PM

A couple of Tonkas went howling over Dorchester today, at a couple of thousand feet. Wings part-swept, and moving at a decent speed. Don't often see the type round here.

pyro-manic · February 10, 2011, 05:28:24 PM

A busy few days for the Royal Navy here in Weymouth - on Wednesday there was a Type 23 frigate parked in the bay, seemingly right on the beach. If I'd had a camera, it would have been an amazing photo - perfect profile, up close. She went tearing off a little bit later. Then on Thursday afternoon there were two Hunt class minesweepers, tooling around right in the middle of the bay. Must have been doing some training. Horrible day for it though, as it was lashing down with rain. Couple of big tankers lying a bit further out as well, but that's pretty normal.

Note to self: make a habit of carrying a camera around with you.

scooter · February 11, 2011, 08:38:30 AM

Quote from: pyro-manic on February 10, 2011, 05:28:24 PM
Note to self: make a habit of carrying a camera around with you.

ya, I know. I missed the C-130 passing right over my head as it was doing touch and goes at KACY.

Cliffy B · February 11, 2011, 08:43:50 AM

Haven't been able to see any due to the flight paths and all of the trees around here but for the past few days we've been having quite a few H-53s and H-60s thundering past at a decent clip. The windows have been rattling a bit with some of the passes! 53s are LOUD!

Hawkeye · February 11, 2011, 08:54:17 AM

This came roaring over the house yesterday. With the below zero temps, you could hear it coming for miles.

pyro-manic · February 13, 2011, 08:53:39 AM

Went for a birthday walk in the lovely sunshine yesterday, and spotted a Cessna as it pulled a couple of very low orbits over Radipole lake. Then today, went out for a coffee in the lashing rain, and caught this River-class OPV as it came into the bay and turned into Portland harbour. Apologies for the poor quality of the pics, my 7-year-old digicam isn't ideal for this kind of photography.

JayBee · February 13, 2011, 09:30:45 AM

Sorry to say Alun, but that is no Cessna, not with a constant cord wing and tailplane, and try as I might with photoshop I just can not get the registration, so I can not find out the type that way.
To my eye it looks like one of these modern "ultralights".
Anyone out there got any idea as to the type?

Jim

Ian the Kiwi Herder · February 13, 2011, 10:38:20 AM

In Formby village yesterday morning around 0930. A 'white jet' which could have been a Hawk or an Alpha Jet... I simply couldn't tell, but certainly in that 'class'. Traveling roughly north-to-south around 1500ft in a shallow turning climb.

We regularly get a privately owned JP5/Strikemaster coming-down to Woodvale for a few days at a time - it's owned by an ex-station commander... definitely not a JP, it had swept wings.

Bit of a mystery !

Ian