Seen Over Your House Today

[PR19_Kit]

Nice to see someone is remembering them.

There's little memorials all over the UK like that, most obviously for our "own lads" but quite a few for Commonwealth & Empire troops plus US, Free French etc. They are very easy to miss and the locals are so used to them they don't really notice them any more.

My favourite is in the Royal Pavilion in Brighton (The Prince Regent's outlandish Eastern Palace) it has a memorial to the Indian troops who fought on the Western Front in WWI. Apparently it was used as a convalescent centre for them. The powers to be thought it would make them feel at home 

I have had tea with the Mayor of Brighton in the Pavilon.

Indian tea I hope............ 

[Hman]

Nice to see someone is remembering them.

There's little memorials all over the UK like that, most obviously for our "own lads" but quite a few for Commonwealth & Empire troops plus US, Free French etc. They are very easy to miss and the locals are so used to them they don't really notice them any more.

My favourite is in the Royal Pavilion in Brighton (The Prince Regent's outlandish Eastern Palace) it has a memorial to the Indian troops who fought on the Western Front in WWI. Apparently it was used as a convalescent centre for them. The powers to be thought it would make them feel at home  

I have had tea with the Mayor of Brighton in the Pavilon.

Indian tea I hope............  

Hmmm... not sure could have been PG Tips!  http://freespace.virgin.net/jean-luc.d4/ltb22.htm

[Rheged]

Played truant today and went for a gentle stroll in the Lake District near Keswick instead of working though a list of other tasks that I should  have been finishing off.  Over Derwentwater, SIX Tucanos, TWO Hawks,  FOUR  Tornadi,   and almost inevitably one of the great yellow paraffin budgies   (RAF Sea King)  collecting a bent or broken tourist from near the top of Skiddaw. Later, coming back by the Solway Coast, a very smoky Hercules heading vaguely towards West Freugh  on the Scots side.

[Cliffy B]

Was out for a run this afternoon and the sound of radials was suddenly heard.  I looked up to see a pair of SNJs going over very slowly but at a decent altitude.  All I could make out was the silhouette on a sunny, cloudless day.  Man those radials sounded goooooooooooooooooooood!    Was sitting outback after dinner and one of them or another one went over the house a good bit lower this time and I was able to see it was in NMF.  God I love the sound of those engines 

[JayBee]

  God I love the sound of those engines 

It is true what they say:

Radials growl,
Inlines purr,
Jets suck!

[JayBee]

This was bashing the circuit here at Prestwick yesterday (3rd. May)
One of the R.A.F's new Voyagers.
Unfortunately just as he was passing over the house (downwind left for 31) I was having to shoot almost into the sun.

[PR19_Kit]

'One' of the new Voyagers? I thought they'd only got one so far.

It sure looks an impressive piece of kit, I saw it at Brize when I was visiting my daughter (She's the Best.....ah no, you probably already know that  ) but cameras were banned at the time, sadly.

[seavixen]

An interesting one is at Norman Cross just off the A1, the main London-Edinburgh road. It's a Napoleonic Eagle on a pillar, commemorating all the French and Dutch POWs who died in the camp there between 1796-1814.

I used to live in Stilton, just down the road from the memorial. Sadly the eagle is a replacement, the original was stolen in 1990 and not replaced I think until 2005.

[Cliffy B]

Well, the SNJs were back again tonight and they brought a third friend!!  They flew over low and slow (but still too fast for me to get my camera!!  ) in a "v".  I was able to make out the center one in NMF, the right one in NMF but the undersides of the wings were red, and the left one had the entire undersides painted a very dark color.  Whether red, blue, black, etc... I couldn't make out due to the sun being at that perfect angle as to simply cast a heavy shadow under all of them.  Think they belong to the local air museum here.  I'll snap a photo soon enough! 

And once again....those engines!!!! 

[NARSES2]

Seen and heard 

Couple of times over the weekend we had Typhoons fly over. All part of the Olympics security excercise. The venue is probably only 10 miles or so away as the Typhoon flys

[kitbasher]

Seen and heard 

Couple of times over the weekend we had Typhoons fly over. All part of the Olympics security excercise. The venue is probably only 10 miles or so away as the Typhoon flys

LOADS of times over the weekend in my part of the world - long finals to land to runway 07 passes about 350 yards due south of the front of my house - never seen so many Typhoons (OK, seen so few so frequently to be correct).

[NARSES2]

It's actually nice to see what we as taxpayers are paying for, for a change 

[kitbasher]

It's actually nice to see what we as taxpayers are paying for, for a change 

Move to Blackheath to see the Rapiers!

[Martin H]

Blackheath and Shooters hill cemetery are ideal locations for SAM's for over looking the river and Stratford. Its an area I know fairly well, I was born just down the hill in Greenwich, and my grandparents are buried in the afore mentioned cemetery.

[Nick]

Have to giggle a little a bit at the furore about the Rapier and Starstreak sites. The one in Epping Forest is very close to a pair of WW2 Anti-Aircraft battery sites, one of which is now the Met Police helicopter base.
In Leytonstone one Resident's Community Leader complained about 'things that may kill people on a block of flats near her'. This being East London I suspect there's a lot more dangerous weaponry in far less controlled hands a lot closer than she realises!
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/london/six-jet-attack-missile-sites-across-london-during-olympic-games-7696931.html

My mate says you can walk up to the fence around the Blackheath Common site and take loads of photos, the troops inside don't complain and the Army and Air Cadets guarding the perimeter won't try to stop you! 
The Epping Forest site is close to the LOOP (London Outer Orbital Path) so there's nothing to stop you going past.
Shooters Hill was also an Anti-Aircraft site in WW2.