22:46 on 22-10-09

sounded large(did not get outside to see it) and slow...could be heard for a long time anyone got any idea of type and operator??

Germstone,

What time was it? An RAF Hercules did an approach and go to runway 10 at about 1510, could it have been that?

Darren

Probably not as Germstone heard it around 22:46, if you read the first line again..:p

An Electra from Atlantic Airways, Coventry, perhaps?

I did consider it may have been the C130 as I had seen it overhead earlier....But it did not sound quite the same.

possibly an atlantic Electra or something Russian maybe?... it was certainly a more unusual sounding aircraft.

Saw the offenders around 23.00.West to East transit near to Blackpool (tall) Tower.Reliably informed they were a pair of MC-130P's.Sounded slightly different to a normal Herc though.

Thanks Sandy

That clears that up then prob sounded different as it was a pair in formation :-)

I think it was the "Ghost" of one of those B36's from Burtonwood - With Halloween cumming up you might even hear a the early jet howl of an escort of Banshees' through the murkey stillness of a Lancashire night too. A portent of another wet summer in Blackpool.

CAT III (In his balsawood Sprit).