Chosun Juan
Given to Fly
Great stuff ! en route from Area 51 !?! :eek!: o
Chosun :gh:
Chosun :gh:
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Anyone else like Birds AND planes? (5 Viewers)
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Farnboro John
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Great stuff ! en route from Area 51 !?! :eek!: o
Chosun :gh:
U-2s are now based at Fairford according to some (previously they have passed through on regular exchanges between CONUS and points East).
That's the first time I've ever seen one with the satcom hump on its back. Stunner, even in the late dusk! :t:
John
Farnboro John
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Westland Puma HC2. Once based at Odiham, now Benson. 1970s but sound design updated to present.
KenM
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Can’t beat the old’uns...:t:
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
I assume that prevailing weather conditions dictate which flight path these take in and out of Broughton; today it took them over the village, where I managed to catch them from the garden. (The XL came over even lower as it was landing, but I wasn't quick enough grabbing the camera before it disappeared behind trees.)
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Farnboro John
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KenM
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Mike Crawley
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We have had an RAF C-17 doing practice "touch and go" landings at Manchester this week.
I was going to post a link to the Manchester Evening News website but it’s a poor website and packed with advertising
I was going to post a link to the Manchester Evening News website but it’s a poor website and packed with advertising
Farnboro John
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I've seen C-130s going to Gatwick too. I think (speculation alert) the RAF is taking advantage of the quiet to send crews where they wouldn't normally go. There are training and operational advantages: with many fewer bases of their own its too easy for crews to get into a rut doing the same thing in the same place, and it allows them to experience civilian procedures and learn places they may need to go in a sudden emergency.
John
Farnboro John
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Farnboro John
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A few military helicopters that have graced my airspace since lockdown.
John
ZZ385 Army Air Corps Wildcat
ZZ392 following ZZ385 in well-spaced trail
ZH902 RAF Chinook HC5 (the very wide sponsons compared to a normal Chinook hold fuel for extra long range)
ZZ385 again, heading South this time
ZZ518 Royal Navy Wildcat, note surveillance radar dome under the nose
John
ZZ385 Army Air Corps Wildcat
ZZ392 following ZZ385 in well-spaced trail
ZH902 RAF Chinook HC5 (the very wide sponsons compared to a normal Chinook hold fuel for extra long range)
ZZ385 again, heading South this time
ZZ518 Royal Navy Wildcat, note surveillance radar dome under the nose
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PYRTLE
Old Berkshire Boy
Surprisingly I noticed a couple of small private single prop. planes yesterday afternoon before a fairly low approach by an Embraer ERJ on finals into Norwich from Aberdeen. USAF have been active midweek, fast jets, transport, tankers and the still very odd Osprey - not the type I was hoping for.
Farnboro John
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Yes, very little GA but not none. It does seem a little odd but no doubt there is a reasonable explanation. Fast jets do not come into our area :C
John
MJB
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For a bit of nostalgia John, check out the YouTube videos that you can summon up (pentacle not needed, quite unlike the Dennis Wheatley stories) by typing Farnborough 1948 (and subsequent years) into Mr Google.
Look out for the Rogers Aviation small airliner powered by four slim turboprop engines...
MJN
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Farnboro John
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MJB
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Nothing against Fran, but does Farnborough not work better? 3
John
Another two-finger-fingerpigs on my part!:t:
MJB
PS There's a very sporty Canberra routine in the 1950 newsreels. Also lots of air-to-air shots out of the back of the prototype Beverley (A tank to Calais or a Boy Scout to Australia).
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KenM
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Geoff Pain
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MJB
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Well, it is an American Osprey, although not Pandion carolinensis**...
MJB
**Reference
Monti, F, O Duriez, V Arnal, J-M Dominici, A Sforzi, L Fusani, D Grémillet and C Montgelard. 2015.Being cosmopolitan: evolutionary history and phylogeography of a specialized raptor, the Osprey Pandion haliaetus. BMC Evol. Biol. 15: 255. doi 10.1186/s12862-015-0535-6
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