Seen Over Your House Today

[PR19_Kit]

Those five BERP rotor blades make a very strange noise, half way between a Sea King and a Chinook. 

As I get quite a number of them passing by here going in and out of Prestwick, my ears say that there is also a hint of C-47/Dakota as well. Seriously.

Which immediately brings to mind a Dak with BERP prop blades............ 

[Nick]

Last night a pair of Wildcat helicopters landed either on Horse Guards Parade or in Hyde Park Barracks. They took off 15 minutes later and flew around London for a bit.

Given that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is in town on a huge PR trip and signing deals for 48 more Typhoons, is it possible he's also looking for new helicopters for their Navy?

[perttime]

A few days ago getting out of work, I heard and then saw a formation with a CASA C-295 and two Pilatus PC-12s pretty low over the main street.

The Finnish Air Force is 100 years old now, and they'd promised to do some appearances here and there.

[PR19_Kit]

While working on the layout at my model railway club y'day we heard a sound like a whole squadron of Tucanos coming over, so I rushed out to see and it was a Piaggio P.180 Avanti!

I've never seen one flying before, and it looks bizarre, like something beamed in from Mars!

A glorious sight, and sound too, it was LOUD! 

[Knightflyer]

A seemingly very large, very low and very slow (or relatively large, low and slow  ) Boeing 747-8R7(F) of Cargolux going in (or out) of East Midlands Airport. Very Impressive 

[jcf]

One of the Boeing CT-133 'Silver Star' chase planes, came over several times.

[perttime]

Just outside work: one of the red and white (bought from Switzerland) BAE Hawks making a turn over the lake next to the town centre. Presumably killing speed and heading for the air base / air port.

[Spey_Phantom]

on the last leg home from work, i got a surprise fly over from an RAF Tucano T.1 

[Captain Canada]

KC-135 doing circuits over out job today.

[TheChronicOne]

Yeah buddy. 

[kitbasher]

So not quite seen over my house today, more like what I saw yesterday over the other side of the garden wall of a house I lived in a few years ago.

The last station I was accommodated at was RAF Uxbridge, during WW2 the HQ of 11 Gp Fighter Command and the site of the bunker where 11 Gp Fighter Command ops were directed during the Battle of Britain, where air ops over the D-Day beaches were controlled, and many, many other operations.  The Ops Bunker is the other side of the wall of the last married quarter I lived in.  Visited it many times and me and my lad used to kick a football around over the top of it.

RAF Uxbridge closed down a few years ago and the site is being redeveloped.  The bunker has been preserved and a brand new £6.5m visitor's centre officially opens to the public next weekend.  I was fortunate enough to attend a preview courtesy of my next-door neighbour who is a volunteer worker at the museum.  Very much worth a visit, the ops room (a replica of which was in the RAF Museum's Battle of Britain annex until that closed down, don't know where it may be now) is set up to look as it did late morning 15 September 1940 (Adler Tag).

[NARSES2]

Like the replica Op's room in particular  Cheers for the pics

[PR19_Kit]

Cor, that looks well worth a visit. Great pics too Dave, thanks so much. 

Being a bit JMN-ish, wasn't Adler Tag the first day of the BoB, 13th August 1940?

The 15th September was the day that the RAF scored its highest number of kills and was essentially the turning point of the Battle. Goering gave up afterwards in the face of such heavy losses.

[TheChronicOne]

Them's some good lookin' wares off in there!  ^

Here's one I saw right here at home about a month ago. It was back a couple days ago, also. But anyway, back a month ago, this thing had been doing orbits around Henry Post Airfield a mile North of here for 4-5 days in a row. Training I guess.....  almost made me think it was an AC-130 training thing or something they way they were going around in circles. Wasn't no AC-130 though, I don't think, because I didn't see any barrels but I DID see two protrustions on each side of the fuselage between the wings and stabalizers. Same place on each side.

Tail code was a single "L." I looked it up and conveniently nothing was listed so I have no idea where this thing was from or what its function is.



The pattern it flew would widen and lessen. At points it flew directly over head and other points it was a ways off, like in the photo.

[kitbasher]

Like the replica Op's room in particular  Cheers for the pics

The ops room is 100% authentic, Chris, the replica is/was at Hendon.  The totes at the back and the table have been 'reset' to 15 Sep 40.

And yes, Kit, you're right (my bad): https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=adler+tag&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari