Paul Alan Bardell Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Not over my house But Over work this morning (north side of Leicester) 1 x Lynx heading west. and best of all this afternoon - at approx 13.15 and near Hinckley a Spitfire heading approx north west. This flew over again 30 mins later now heading south east and taking time out to do some turning and banking as he went on his way. nice. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 After a week of high wing monoplanes heading west, I now have to say we've got crap coming from th dirtection of Cape Town. Sad to say thet is where our winter weather comes from. Thankfully we didn't have the wind today, so maybe we'll be let off the hook!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potato Pete Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 In the distance over deepest Bershire yesterday, don't quite know - low wing radial(?) monoplane, squarish wing tips, rectacted undercarriage. Possibly a warbird, it might have had an orange tail and roundels. It was fairly aerobatic, doing loops and rolls all without sounding like a scooter gone mad. Pretty sure it wasn't a Harvard. Any ideas? Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris57 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Spotted over the last few days two spits in formation, followed by i'm sure a hurricane and one unrecognised. Today a Canberra let down into Farnborough, he's just been up and done his routine. Prior to him eight biplanes winged over and carried out their display before departing North. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airgunner Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 (edited) Not exactly over my house, but my office is 400 yards off the end of the runway at Farnborough, and it seems the first arrivals are coming in today. So far, two F-16's, one F-18 and a Canberra. No idea where they are all from, cloudbase is quite low and by the time that they are in view I can't see any markings. Edited July 7, 2014 by Airgunner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bennygman Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 On Saturday, the Great War display team en route Knebworth to display before the Iron maiden concert. Just discovered the triplane was flown by none other than Mr Bruce Dickinson! Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagey Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 We are currently having a second French invasion down here, Castlemartin range is hosting an anglo french exercise. The past few days we have had most of the French Navy working on the range. I was off today so took time to watch and listen to the action , I noted 8 pairs of Rafale and 2 pairs of Etendards! The last Rafale have just departed the range back to france. They on average spent around 45min on the range so we have had jet noise all day and evening The exercise runs for two weeks, so this should be a daily log for the next few days Shaun. That explains it. I was on holiday last week staying near Tenby and we heard Jets all week. didn't see anything except on the Tuesday when we were at Carew Castle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airgunner Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Todays Farnborough update .. This morning we were treated to three Merlins clattering low and noisy about the sky, they then scuttled off North somewhere. We then got an Merlin Spitfire doing circuits and bumps for ten minutes. A couple of hours of hours of normal avtivity and then two impromptu displays, first from a Griffon Spit., then the Yak Display team did a six-ship practice with smoke and everything. Currently overhead is an over-enthusiastic F-18 making lots of noise and rattling the windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viper-30 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Loving the f18 display watching from my garden.....spitfire sounded very cool too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airgunner Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 And now a splendid display from a Typhoon... good day so far.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brown Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Osprey over the archery field tonight, very impressive, very low and very quiet! First time I've seen one. Very nice site as it lifted slightly to go over the Malverns. Rick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Cambria California yesterday afternoon I saw a C-17 fly over fairly low. Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevecombeboy Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 A Hunter over the North Devon coast this afternoon - looked to be in Black Arrows colours. Where's it from? Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 We had a Chinook fly west bound into Brize this morning. Nothing new really BUT it had a fairly large boat underslung. I got a couple of great photos showing the profile and the boat seemed to have large guns (machine-gun variety) fore and aft. If I can get the photo to upload you will see what I mean. Just imagine the British equivalent of 'Apocalypse Now!' (Two years ago, just after we moved in they did the same but with a yellow JCB!!!!) Living in this part of the country is fantastic..... all of the traffic into and out of Brize and over the next few days a lot heading to Fairford... Hutch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19KD75 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 This guy!! http://richgoodwin-airshows.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLC1966 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I would guess the V-22 Osprey was one of Mildenhall based cabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob P Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Two Rafale('s?) at very low level yesterday, Mirage 2000's today. French Army Gazelle last week. And before any of my fellow West Sussex residents shout "WHERE???", I'm in France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Definitely NO JSF thingies flying over here thats for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max lloyd Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 white Catalina low over Kemble this am. Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 We had a Chinook fly west bound into Brize this morning. Nothing new really BUT it had a fairly large boat underslung. I got a couple of great photos showing the profile and the boat seemed to have large guns (machine-gun variety) fore and aft. If I can get the photo to upload you will see what I mean. Just imagine the British equivalent of 'Apocalypse Now!' (Two years ago, just after we moved in they did the same but with a yellow JCB!!!!) Living in this part of the country is fantastic..... all of the traffic into and out of Brize and over the next few days a lot heading to Fairford... Hutch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brown Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Just had the A400 go over. Came out of Brize. Rick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Just had the A400 go over. Came out of Brize. Rick. Must be the same one I saw just North of Cheltenham. First one I've ever seen - circled round several times, north of my archery club at the racecourse. I thought it might be preparing for Fairford - but came from and returned in the Eastish direction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widow 65 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 I live near Boscombe down and yesterday had a UAV ( only a small one like a Hermes 450)launch from there for a quick 20 min sortie over Bulford ranges. Plus an F-18 flying over and past Boscombe both yesterday and today, but it is Airshow season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brown Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Must be the same one I saw just North of Cheltenham. First one I've ever seen - circled round several times, north of my archery club at the racecourse. I thought it might be preparing for Fairford - but came from and returned in the Eastish direction. I watched it come out of Brize on FR24. Not sure where it ended up though, too busy eating! First one I've seen too. Looked like a C17 further away! Btw, didn't know you were Cheltenham archers. I'm Severn archers. We have a chap from yours comes to us as well. Rick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris57 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 So there I am standing in the kitchen making some sandwiches, when this large delta wing job passes in front of the kitchen window. and proceeds to do so for the next ten minutes, Fairford huh. Sorry guys...not very Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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