Seen Over Your House Today

PR19_Kit · April 05, 2018, 03:22:28 PM

While fuelling the car in Gloucester this afternoon I heard the unmistakable 'Wop Wop Wop' sound of a Chinnook, and sure enough one of them strolled across the sky right overhead at around 500ft. Wonderful.

kitnut617 · April 05, 2018, 04:57:19 PM

At the airport today, a Voyager ---

But later, I happened to notice an exhaust trail high in the sky. This trail just suddenly appeared and is was very wide, no four into two then one, just very wide for the get go and lasted for four or five minutes then a cloud got in the way and hid it.

Mossie · April 08, 2018, 10:45:20 AM

WB-57F.

Not exactly over my house though.....

Captain Canada · April 08, 2018, 03:41:52 PM

Another Sea King flew over today. This one was heading West. I never got a number off it tho.

PR19_Kit · April 08, 2018, 04:12:22 PM

Quote from: Mossie on April 08, 2018, 10:45:20 AM

WB-57F.

Not exactly over my house though.....

WHAT!

How awesome is that! They can't fly them for much longer, can they, those looooooong wings will fall off!

scooter · April 08, 2018, 04:24:26 PM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 08, 2018, 04:12:22 PM
Quote from: Mossie on April 08, 2018, 10:45:20 AM

WB-57F.

Not exactly over my house though.....

WHAT!

How awesome is that! They can't fly them for much longer, can they, those looooooong wings will fall off!

Only if they stop Frankensteining parts from the Boneyard

Mossie · April 09, 2018, 03:58:29 AM

It couldn't have been a luckier spot. I was in Fort Worth visiting my brother over Easter, we were flying back to the UK from Houston and stopped over so we could take in the Space Center. Just as we parked the car, the WB-57F was taking off. If it had been any other time I'd have been in the center and missed it. I managed to snap it but only had my phone so all I got was a blurry plane shaped smudge.

The NASA engineers keep working their witchcraft, it's amazing that they've kept them going so long and it'll be the Canberra's 70th anniversary next year. The rate they're going they'll make the 100th anniversary, only 31 years to go.....

TheChronicOne · April 09, 2018, 04:00:38 AM

Yeah that is cool!! They look so nice, too, in the NASA livery.

Doug K · April 09, 2018, 01:00:18 PM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 05, 2018, 03:22:28 PM
While fuelling the car in Gloucester this afternoon I heard the unmistakable 'Wop Wop Wop' sound of a Chinnook, and sure enough one of them strolled across the sky right overhead at around 500ft. Wonderful.

I seem to see them regularly making a lot of noise over Central London during my visits, I assume rapid reaction or some such?

PR19_Kit · April 09, 2018, 03:04:27 PM

Quote from: Doug K on April 09, 2018, 01:00:18 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 05, 2018, 03:22:28 PM
While fuelling the car in Gloucester this afternoon I heard the unmistakable 'Wop Wop Wop' sound of a Chinnook, and sure enough one of them strolled across the sky right overhead at around 500ft. Wonderful.

I seem to see them regularly making a lot of noise over Central London during my visits, I assume rapid reaction or some such?

More than likely, and they're all based at Odiham, which isn't all that far away.

PR19_Kit · April 14, 2018, 10:54:28 AM

Directly o'head Finedon, Northants this afternoon at around 500ft flew a Griffon engined Spitfire with guns, which means a XIV to me.

But, I can't find any reference to a single Mk XIV still flying in the UK, and the only Griffon powered ones are PR XIXs, so whose was it and where did it come from? $:-\$

[Later] Some lists seem not to be exhaustive, as I've now found one. That'd could be MV293 (G-SPIT) which flies out of Duxford under the Fighter Collection's umbrella.

[Even later] The thot plickens. MV293 has clipped wings and the one I saw definitely didn't. It was PRU Blue all over underneath too, and MV293 isn't......

Rheged · April 14, 2018, 11:08:42 AM

Mid afternoon, a Skyvan trundling across the sky and disgorging parachutists over Shobdon.

PR19_Kit · April 14, 2018, 11:14:23 AM

Quote from: Rheged on April 14, 2018, 11:08:42 AM

Mid afternoon, a Skyvan trundling across the sky and disgorging parachutists over Shobdon.

Wonderfully descriptive of how a Skyvan flies, 'Trundling', perfect.

JayBee · April 14, 2018, 11:22:41 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 14, 2018, 11:14:23 AM
Quote from: Rheged on April 14, 2018, 11:08:42 AM

Mid afternoon, a Skyvan trundling across the sky and disgorging parachutists over Shobdon.

Wonderfully descriptive of how a Skyvan flies, 'Trundling', perfect.

A bit like watching a Beverly flying "across" the sky.

kitnut617 · April 14, 2018, 01:14:39 PM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 14, 2018, 10:54:28 AM
Directly o'head Finedon, Northants this afternoon at around 500ft flew a Griffon engined Spitfire with guns, which means a XIV to me.

But, I can't find any reference to a single Mk XIV still flying in the UK, and the only Griffon powered ones are PR XIXs, so whose was it and where did it come from? $:-\$

[Later] Some lists seem not to be exhaustive, as I've now found one. That'd could be MV293 (G-SPIT) which flies out of Duxford under the Fighter Collection's umbrella.

[Even later] The thot plickens. MV293 has clipped wings and the one I saw definitely didn't. It was PRU Blue all over underneath too, and MV293 isn't......

There is a Mk.XVIII flying, serial SM845, there are some others but they're not in the UK.