Seen Over Your House Today

[63cpe]

IMG_20220604_143151800 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

This afternoon I heard a different drum in the air and i.t was quite massive. Looked up to the skies and there were 4 AAC wildcats AH1 closing in at rather low level!
Had to restart the camera on the phone twice before I got it working. But managed to make a picture of the last one in the square formation. Oh. I'm in the Netherlands, not UK.

Cheers,
David aka 63CPE

[PR19_Kit]

Is it just me, or do choppers with BERP rotors make a louder noise than standard ones? Maybe it's just a different sound, but it's very distinctive, specially with Merlins.

[perttime]

I lost count: five or six fast jets heading towards the airport/base, while I was out with The Dog. I only caught glimpses through the trees but the first one was certainly a Hornet and the last one was not. Looked like a Eurofighter Typhoon tail. I'm pretty sure it was one of the RAF fighters visiting Finland now for a bit of training.

https://ilmavoimat.fi/en/-/jef-training-event-rovaniemi

[kitbasher]

A pair each of Lynx Wildcats and Apaches this avo amongst the usual biz-jets and other transports in and out of Northolt.

[Captain Canada]

Saw a pair of F-16s booting down the Detroit River yesterday when we were in Windsor. Cool sight !

[Rheged]

A small YELLOW  helicopter with the word ELECTRICITY emblazoned on each side.  Flying extremely low over the power cables near Chateau Rheged.   I assume that it was checking cable continuity and/or looking for hot spots, but Madame R speculates that the helicopter was in fact electrically powered.  Whichever,  an MBB BO105  at about 50 feet  is a ridiculously noisy item!

[PR19_Kit]

It was like a race track over here today. Loads of airliners headed west, in groups of 3-4.







All twins of course, and they could have been anything from an A318 to a 777.

[Rheged]

North Herefordshire's  skies are full of high level twin engined aircraft; all I assume on their way to the Excited States of America.  At a very much lower level, we have just had a quartet of Hawks  using the particular shape of Chateau Rheged as a waypoint.  They approached in two very noisy pairs  at about 500 feet  from the East, overflew us, then did a 180 degree turn and headed back the way they had come.

[jcf]

A pair of Air Tractor AT 802F Fire Boss floatplanes flying west.
White and red scheme similar to this photo. I'll see if I can find out the operator.

[perttime]

Not over my house but.... I took a look on https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=467896,46788f,4b7f5a,4b7fac,4b7fae,4b7fa9 , yesterday and noticed Swiss PC-21 trainers playing over southern parts of Sweden. Looks like combat manoeuvering in pairs. They are there again.

[Rheged]

For the last two hours, we have had Ospreys (or just the one  thundering back and forth)  over our house.   I assume that the SAS are playing with a new toy (or toys)

[PR19_Kit]

The unmistakable sound of a single Griffon at part throttle o'head here today.

It must have been a Spitfire XIV or XIX, there being no other single Griffon engined aircraft flying in the UK these days, but sadly I didn't get a glimpse of it.

[perttime]

The unmistakable sound of a single Griffon at part throttle o'head here today.

It must have been a Spitfire XIV or XIX, there being no other single Griffon engined aircraft flying in the UK these days, but sadly I didn't get a glimpse of it.

There is a Seafire XVII.

[PR19_Kit]

ALMOST counts as a Spitfire................ 

Around here, with Sywell just up the road and Duxford in the opposite direction my money was on a XIX.

[Rheged]

For the last two hours, we have had Ospreys (or just the one  thundering back and forth)  over our house.   I assume that the SAS are playing with a new toy (or toys)

The blighters were back again today (two of them) and so low  that any irate rustic with a 12 bore could probably have winged them.