Seen Over Your House Today

scooter · June 24, 2011, 03:19:30 AM

Quote from: rallymodeller on June 23, 2011, 10:46:26 PM
Quote from: scooter on June 23, 2011, 03:05:25 PM
Federal Aviation Admin's CV-580's been back up at KACY doing touch and goes the past couple of days.

Checking the ILS?

Considering 4/22 was the active, probably not. We get all sorts of military stuff doing touch and goes. Hawkeyes, KC-10s and -135s, A-10s out of Baltimore, VC-25s and Baby Boeings. Last fall, a Prowler was hawked the active, but never saw him come back around.

Green Dragon · June 25, 2011, 08:51:58 AM

Yesterday the house got buzzed by the Red Arrows flying extremely low around 18:50. Think it was something to do with that new Armed Forces Day thingy.

Paul Harrison

Hawkeye · June 25, 2011, 02:24:43 PM

Whisper quiet! Snuck up on me...

scooter · June 25, 2011, 03:16:40 PM

Quote from: Hawkeye on June 25, 2011, 02:24:43 PM
Whisper quiet! Snuck up on me...

70 some years young and still a gorgeous bird.

Martin H · June 25, 2011, 03:23:00 PM

dunno what they where doing down this way, as they where up in Edinburgh this morning. The Red Arrows banked over the village around 7.30pm heading in a north west direction.

Mossie · June 27, 2011, 04:05:53 AM

I got a slight surpise myself on Saturday when I heard a large buzz & looked up to see four aerobatic aircraft, quite possibly The Blades aerobatic team.

Bridlington yesterday, the north cliff in summertime is a suprisingly good place to be for a bit of spotting. The local Sea Kings often buzz around there, sometimes landing on the grass. Weren't there yesterday, but had a light aircraft doing aerobatic maneovers, the local Police MD902 coming closer in then I've seen him before & a paraglider doing his damned best to impact himself into the cliff. Got some pics of him, taking off in marginal wind, I'll see if I can upload them later.

Hawkeye · June 27, 2011, 12:02:10 PM

I'm hoping this was just a coincidence...but several Turkey Vultures suddenly appeared overhead just after the neighbor lady laid out on her deck to sun bathe. She didn't stay outside long, so I can only assume when she looked up...she got to wondering why they were circling overhead.

Actually the patrol almost daily looking for animal carcasses as they ride the thermals rising off the rooftops.

Mossie · June 27, 2011, 03:06:56 PM

As promised, pics of the paraglider. He struggled to get the canopy inflated, then when he left the cliff he dipped somewhat before rising slightly. After the last pic, he struggled to get any lift for several minutes & hugged the cliff, he eventually got a little bit & rose slightly above it.

Take off:

Uh oh.... (Flamborough Head in the distance):

Nope, he's okay!

PR19_Kit · June 27, 2011, 06:15:55 PM

I hope he can swim!

Mossie · June 28, 2011, 08:09:36 AM

He might have had too, we didn't see what happened but he was really struggling to make it back over the cliff! He seemed a little foolhardy to me, he struggled to get the canopy inflated & went off the first moment it got up, I might have hung on to see if it continued, not that I'll ever be an experienced paraglider!

scooter · June 28, 2011, 02:44:54 PM

VC-32A out of Andrews doing touch and goes at ACY late this morning. Crossed the threshold on Rwy 13 and caught an updraft, and aborted the landing. Whoops!

Spey_Phantom · July 05, 2011, 01:10:42 AM

no fun being stuck at home with a throat-infection, and that 2 days before an airshow $:-\$
just hope it clears up by then.

anyway, advantage is that i can see some of the arrivals fly overhead, yesterday there were a civilian A-109P and a formation of 2 F-16's and a C-130.

this mornign just a regular R44 from a nearby heliport, i wonder what im gonna see today

Spey_Phantom · July 05, 2011, 01:15:54 AM

Vintage AT-6 Harvard/Texan (Belgian Air Force) just flew over

kitnut617 · July 05, 2011, 06:24:52 AM

Was over at my brother's place on the weekend (for his daughter's 21st), and when I pulled into his driveway I saw a Swainson's Hawk hovering about 10 feet just to the left of it. My bro's front lawn is about 2 acres in size, nicely cut and full of Richardson's Ground Squirrels (commonly called a gopher around these parts even though they're not).

So a Swainson's Hawk hunting isn't so much a novelty you might say, except this hawk had decided to build a nest in one of the trees in the front yard ---- and at about 20 feet from the balcony deck that spans the front of my bro's house.

It then proceded to dive-bomb us at every conceivable moment, swooping down from quite high up, skimming the roof slope by about 6" and then pulling up just at about where our heads were. We had to move down to the lower level under the deck to get away from it. Then there was two of them doing it and not long after we saw that there was a youngster in the nest. It looks like my bro has about six weeks of watching out for his head as it usually takes about that long for the youngster to leave the nest.

EDITED: Spelling correction (thanks Craig for pointing that out)

scooter · July 05, 2011, 08:08:49 AM

Not today, but Thursday up at WGR. A-10s out of Baltimore were doing some low-level strafes and bomb tossing (BDU-25s).

One important lesson that was learned (besides bring a tripod) was don't bring a 1 y.o. to the bombing range when the A-10s are using the strafe pits.