Seen Over Your House Today

JayBee · May 26, 2011, 02:43:37 AM

Quote from: hurricanemk1c on May 24, 2011, 12:46:47 PM
The DC-10 pic by Hawkeye is in fact a MD-11F - tell because of the winglets and Lufty Cargo don't operate DC-10F's!

Also the shape of the tail cone. Viewed from the side the DC-10 has a rounded shape, while the MD-11 has a square cut off shape, as in the photo.

Jim

scooter · May 26, 2011, 02:59:01 AM

Was up at the the bombing range yesterday, and a pair of MDANG A-10s were dropping practice ordinance...well, more like tossing it. Which was followed up by high angle strafing runs.

Army of One · May 26, 2011, 05:58:38 AM

Whole at a passing parade for some colleagues the works petrol budgie made a few low passes....sorry re quality but iPhone ain't the best camera....
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It was very impressive low and loud.....can't be appreciated in the pic's...then it landed....
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IanH · May 26, 2011, 06:02:01 AM

I've had Cleveland Constabulary's one of them over my house quite a few times - must be summat to do with the Drugs raid on next door last week...

Army of One · May 26, 2011, 07:23:00 AM

One thing I noticed......it's only got one set of controls,on the starboard side....pilot is ex military n two crew are pc's....no flight controls on port side front seat position...gotta trust the pilot.....!

Atlantis · May 26, 2011, 08:17:49 PM

Saw these guys practicing for the airshow a while back.

Hawkeye · May 26, 2011, 08:29:22 PM

Taken this afternoon as I was leaving the house to go run some errands.

Mossie · May 27, 2011, 02:46:21 PM

Eastern Airways BAe Jetstream, heading towards Humberside Airport. Guess they've lifted their self imposed ban after Ash Cloud 2 then!

IanH · May 27, 2011, 02:57:26 PM

Just a query, but my house appears to be on the Flight Path of Durham/Tees Valley Airport, not a problem, but almost every weekday, I'm overflown by Dark Grey Business Jets. They have more lumps & bumps than you would expect to see...I have been told that they are a part of an EW testing set up. Can anyone shed light on this?

Jschmus · May 28, 2011, 05:21:16 PM

Quote from: IanH on May 27, 2011, 02:57:26 PM
Just a query, but my house appears to be on the Flight Path of Durham/Tees Valley Airport, not a problem, but almost every weekday, I'm overflown by Dark Grey Business Jets. They have more lumps & bumps than you would expect to see...I have been told that they are a part of an EW testing set up. Can anyone shed light on this?

According to Wikipedia, there's a firm based at Tees Valley called Cobham, and they operate a fleet of Seven Dassault Falcon 20s in the EW training role. A quick search on airliners.net also turned up the following:

http://bit.ly/ioMQSn

The aircraft carry registries like G-FRAH, G-FRAK (unfortunate, that one) up through G-FRAW. They also (in a separate branch) operate a small fleet of Beech King Airs. The company has a bit of history, beginning in 1934 as Flight Refueling Limited. They developed the technology for probe and drogue refueling.

PR19_Kit · May 29, 2011, 02:57:58 AM

Quote from: Jschmus on May 28, 2011, 05:21:16 PM
The company has a bit of history, beginning in 1934 as Flight Refueling Limited. They purportedly developed the technology for probe and drogue refueling.

Sir Alan Cobham formed Flight Refueling Limited in the 1930s (thus the name of the current version of the company) and they made the fittings and connectors for Sqdn. Ldr. Richard Atcherley's 'hook and hose' method of flight refuelling. FRL later produced the entire system, hoses, reels, cables, hooks and drogues etc. which Imperial Airways used operationally to get their Shorts C Class flying boats across the Atlantic from Foynes to Botwood if there were adverse westerly winds.

FRL didn't purportedly develop the probe and drogue method of flight refuelling, they invented it, the first type to use it being an F-84 Thunderjet refuelled from a Lancastrian tanker. Nowadays Cobham still manufacture the probes and hose reel units used by most NATO forces.

IanH · May 29, 2011, 06:14:30 AM

Quote from: Jschmus on May 28, 2011, 05:21:16 PM
Quote from: IanH on May 27, 2011, 02:57:26 PM
Just a query, but my house appears to be on the Flight Path of Durham/Tees Valley Airport, not a problem, but almost every weekday, I'm overflown by Dark Grey Business Jets. They have more lumps & bumps than you would expect to see...I have been told that they are a part of an EW testing set up. Can anyone shed light on this?

According to Wikipedia, there's a firm based at Tees Valley called Cobham, and they operate a fleet of Seven Dassault Falcon 20s in the EW training role. A quick search on airliners.net also turned up the following:

http://bit.ly/ioMQSn

The aircraft carry registries like G-FRAH, G-FRAK (unfortunate, that one) up through G-FRAW. They also (in a separate branch) operate a small fleet of Beech King Airs. The company has a bit of history, beginning in 1934 as Flight Refueling Limited. They purportedly developed the technology for probe and drogue refueling.

Them's the Deeleys - many Thanks Jschmus

Mr.Creak · May 29, 2011, 11:14:13 AM

Not exactly over my house (since I was in the car on the way back from Partizan at Kelham Hall) but...
VULCAN!

Knightflyer · May 29, 2011, 11:38:26 AM

Yes the Vulcan was at Bruntingthorpe on static display today (unfortunately I couldn't stay long enough to see it fly out) but I did get my eardrums assaulted by the Lightning doing it's fast run

(along with various other aircraft as well, but the Lightning .........wooooooooow!

Jschmus · May 29, 2011, 12:29:20 PM

Kit, I modified the original post. I didn't mean to offend, it's just that I don't like to throw stuff out without independent confirmation. Since then I've looked at a few other sites, and they did indeed invent the stuff.