wellsprop Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 Sea Fury! Circling over my house on Friday before landing at Yeovilton (having had maintenance work done at North Weald) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 A Spitfire (either a Mk VIII, IX or XVI), a Chipmunk, a Piper Cub and just this moment, a Nieuport 17. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Spotted this bad-boy on my bike ride. Can anybody identify? Looks like a common buzzard - a priviledge for me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted May 7, 2021 Author Share Posted May 7, 2021 Common Buzzard. I had one over here today too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted May 7, 2021 Author Share Posted May 7, 2021 Today we had a nice Antonov over the village flying from Birmingham towards the South Coast - AN-12BP UR-CJN of CAVOK Air 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Went for a lovely walk around the village today and saw some nice things in the air. First was a P-51D in 4th FG markings, followed by a Miles Magister and DH Chipmunk practicing formations. Later I saw a Cessna 140. The natural world didn’t let us down either with butterflies (brimstone, green-veined white, small white, holly blue, peacock and more orange-tips than you could shake a stick at), birds (buzzards, red kites, song thrush, mistake thrush, long-tailed and blue tits, swift, swallow, yellow and pied wagtails, whitethoat, lots of blackcaps (two of which were having an epic punch-up) jay and jackdaw) plus a solitary small red damselfly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 On 5/5/2021 at 1:51 PM, theplasticsurgeon said: Spotted this bad-boy on my bike ride. Looks like a common buzzard - a priviledge for me. I think you’re right. I saw one on a nearby tree on my walk today. They’re quite common in my neck of the woods these days, along with red kites. I never get tired of seeing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 This Cessna 525C CitationJet 4 landed right in front of me, during today's bike ride past Staverton. RAF Atlas on low flying stuff as I mowed my lawn on return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teuchter Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Two Ospreys flying west, over the house. Funnily enough saw one last week up in North Notts, also flying west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Wokka. Going into Woodbridge BTA. Heard before seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 More off to the side while driving between my home and Arbroath but a USMC Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion landing at RM Condor around 1300 today , first time I have seen one. Saw it from a distance later heading out from that area to a big flat topped grey boat offshore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Yeovil ...LH flightpath....Wessex and Sea king(puky yellow one).....sounded like I was back on an Eagle base or MoB ..crazy stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAF4EVER Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Earlier this afternoon CB-8009, C-17 Indian Air Force 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Couple of loud military types one before dinner around half six and another just after seven heading south, could have been kc135Rs or Rivet Joints as they can be loud but normally appear on ADSB. Whatever they were couldn’t been seen in the blue evening sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 @PhantomBigStu there was two F-35 ferries this evening flying south from East Anglia to the South Coast, ROMA62 and ROMA84. Each had six F-35s. The second batch crossed Kent just after 7pm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 6 minutes ago, RidgeRunner said: @PhantomBigStu there was two F-35 ferries this evening flying south from East Anglia to the South Coast, ROMA62 and ROMA84. Each had six F-35s. The second batch crossed Kent just after 7pm This first batch crossed you around 6.30pm. All HL F-35s heading to Mont de Marsan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 1 minute ago, RidgeRunner said: @PhantomBigStu there was two F-35 ferries this evening flying south from East Anglia to the South Coast, ROMA62 and ROMA84. Each had six F-35s. The second batch crossed Kent just after 7pm Thanks RidgeRunner, explains why there was nothing on ADSB or to the eye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 1 minute ago, PhantomBigStu said: Thanks RidgeRunner, explains why there was nothing on ADSB or to the eye I think they were on 360radar and FR24, a bit like the recent GRIMM flights 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, RidgeRunner said: I think they were on 360radar and FR24, a bit like the recent GRIMM flights Didnt check both each time , but first lot wasn’t on the app version of FR24, and the second lot wasn’t on the desktop. Anyway mystery solved. And will be checking out 360radar, it’s not that uncommon I hear something that isn’t on FR24/ADSB. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 9 hours ago, PhantomBigStu said: Didnt check both each time , but first lot wasn’t on the app version of FR24, and the second lot wasn’t on the desktop. Anyway mystery solved. And will be checking out 360radar, it’s not that uncommon I hear something that isn’t on FR24/ADSB. Thanks again Sometimes things like the Kuwait Hercs only show on adsbexchange with all selected rather than just mil. weird! The GRIMMs (B-52s in support of the Afghan withdrawal) only showed on FR24 initially. Later they started appearing on adsb. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michou Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Nothing! Zero, zilch, nada!! And I prefer it that way. I spent five years living next to an international airport and that was enough noise for a lifetime. In my current home I hear the occasional helicopter taking someone to the hospital in Bern and to the north there appears to be a military corridor and I see, from time to time, a Swiss Air Force Super Puma, Pilatus Porter or PC-21 passing by. In a normal (non-covid) summer, hot-air balloons have passed overhead. If I want to see noisy aircraft I go to an air show. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 14 hours ago, RidgeRunner said: This first batch crossed you around 6.30pm. All HL F-35s heading to Mont de Marsan https://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=204603 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 15 hours ago, RidgeRunner said: This first batch crossed you around 6.30pm. All HL F-35s heading to Mont de Marsan HL ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAF4EVER Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 7 minutes ago, junglierating said: HL ? Hill Air Force Base in Utah 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 They are all heading to France for Exercise Atlantic Trident 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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