Bl**dy BBMF

[uffington sb]

Living here at the northern edge of Peterborough, all summer long we have to endure Spitfires, Hurricanes a Lancaster and sometimes a Dakota flying along the Joint Line back to base at QCY.
The Lanc has just over flown my house at about 500' MSD. I've a good mind to phone and complain.


It should have been at 250'!!!

It made my hairs all stand up on end and now I've got dust in my eyes, bl**dy BBMF.


P.S. The joint line is the Peterborough to Spalding line, but train buffs would know that.

[Wensleydale]

Spitfires, Hurricanes a Lancaster and sometimes a Dakota flying along the
Joint Line back to base at QCY.


Obviously fitted with train following radar!

[Dysonsphere]

IFR = I follow roads and railways

[gr4techie]

QCY

You mean... Coningsby.





Surprised you did not use the ICAO code though.

[uffington sb]

Sorry, I'm an ex Ops bloke, I used the IATA code, recognised throughout the world.

I did hear another couple of Merlins which must have been the fighter escort, but didn't see them.

The cloud base at the time was about 1,000' or so.

Thanks Lanc crew:ok::

[Big Hammer]

Uffington, when I used to live near you we also had the Arrows and many others fly over. Is the pub there still open?

[uffington sb]

BH Which pub would that be? I live about a mile east of Werrington junction.

Although the weather wasn't very good, there were some people having a BBQ nearby who let out a cheer as the mighty Lancaster roared overhead.

[Melchett01]

Uffington,

We live in the same part of the world and I too have thought about complaining about the disgraceful altitude BBMF operate at. I'm almost minded to paint something on the roof that that will leave them in no doubt as to by irritation!

[pontifex]

On the way to Cologne in 87 at a fairly low level Ghent hove into view on the nose so I judiciously altered course a little. Cue a signal later in the day informing me of complaints from the citizens of Ghent. Made sure on the way back that I didn't offend them again. It is a really beautiful town seen close up!

[DX Wombat]

I should like to complain about the woeful skills of the BBMF Navigators; they can be so many miles off course that I find it impossible to see them from here. :* Ladies and gentlemen, if you need more accurate information in order to be able to overfly The Burrow with greater accuracy I shall be happy to provide it. ;)

[ACW599]

>I should like to complain about the woeful skills of the BBMF Navigators; they can be so many miles off course that I find it impossible to see them from here<

Yes, they're absolutely dreadful. They've never managed to get anywhere near N52°43’42” W002°59’48” in the last thirty years. Shocking ;)

[its the bish]

Fairford sunday, BBMF appear, absolute silence, must have been a lot of dust about, affected a lot of people,15 to 80 something year old men and women, self & my good lady included had to wipe our eyes ;).

[Pontius Navigator]

I confess, we never went west of the Ambers but we did do Old Warden and that was not that easy.

[Tankertrashnav]

I did hear another couple of Merlins which must have been the fighter escort, but didn't see them.




The good news - I can hear the sound of Merlins passing over my house every day of the week, sometimes as low as 500' :ok:

The bad news is they are these :(

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4024/4482222396_c60360d46c_z.jpg

TTN - somewhere in the Culdrose MATZ


On the way to Cologne in 87 at a fairly low level Ghent hove into view on the nose so I judiciously altered course a little. Cue a signal later in the day informing me of complaints from the citizens of Ghent.


What a miserable bunch, Pontifex. They wouldnt have been complaining in 1944/45 :*

[thowman]

Here's a letter template for you:

Sir

As a poultry farmer doing his best in the food crisis, I wish to protest against the stupid young men who indulge in idiotic joy-riding at all hours of the night. It may be good fun for them, but I would point out that every time they come over our poultry houses, my hens lay premature eggs that drop off the perches and mess up the floor. This means a serious loss towards me, and the country.

Yours

......

[Motleycallsign]

Must be flat bottomed eggs to balance on a perch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scramble the Duxford wing chaps......

[Stitchbitch]

TTN, I might be far of the mark here, but I read it as Ghent were complaining that they weren't flown over.. In fact, while we're on the subject thanks for the 'FlyNears' most weekends chaps, my youngest in his rush to get outside almost left an permanent imprint in the french doors the last time you went over.. gone but not forgotten eh? :E

[FAStoat]

Surely you can find Old Warden with ease??You either look for the great grass area of Henlow ,and mark1 Eyeball from there,or proceed from the Fairey Circle slightly north of due east!!When Bedford was still going,we used to call them up transiting north for the Lincolnshire Clutch Displays and get them to phone Old Warden to tell them what time we were returning southbound and offer a Freebie when Shuttleworth were displaying on a Sunday.If time allowed the "Fish" would land on with ground crew awaiting midtransit with the tilly,and perform the start ceremony.Great fun was had by all,until the Boss was banned for making goofers fall off the 5 bar gate near the road,with his pass.Then I was banned by Roscoe for "Flying with panache" as Aeroplane Monthly put it,when OxxxxxY refused to let the Boss fly his own joint owned aircraft,which was flying for free,so I had to fly that as well!!!!!Great fun and happy days from nearly 40 years ago!!

[pontifex]

Stitchbitch

You are right. It's not like TTN to be so slow.

FAStoat

No-one ever tried to stop me from clearing the refuse from the frangible five barred gate!

[FAStoat]

Yes the days of Allen Wheeler and delightful Dickie were sublime.The Late "Enfant Terrible" Dickie was adept at grass cutting and removing freeloaders from the said gate.I had the honour to be at Goodwood many years ago now,when Raymond Baxter introduced a 70 year old in an Aircraft well over 60 years old approaching from the west!!!You could hear it but not see it,as Ray H came down the Lavant Straight around 300 kts below the level of the grass banking on the outside of the track,pulling up around Woodcote to the delight of the crowd.There are wonderful aerobatic pilots today,who perform routines that only a few can really appreciate,but none could portray an aeroplane or please the crowd as Ray H and the Albatross,also known as Black Pete!!

[Tankertrashnav]

You're right, I was a bit slow on the uptake Pontifex (and Stitchbitch).

Put it down to old age and this minor heatwave :(

[Tankertrashnav]

No-one ever tried to stop me from clearing the refuse from the frangible five barred gate!


I can well believe that after seeing you do a low pass at a private show for 100 squadron at Wyton c 1987. Rivets could well have been counted with ease, were one not instinctively ducking!

[Big Hammer]

Uffington, I guess you are near Barnack. Can't recall name of pub but I think it was thatched and you went down two or three paved steps on the right hand side to get in.

[cornish-stormrider]

I shall bribe all and sundry to get me a BBMF low pass of the north west side of plymouth - the industrial units to the north west of t' Jannerdrome

I can provide enough tasty snaks to satisfy any appetite for tasty waist altering treats.....

PM me if you CAN actually help.

[air pig]

Or would they accept coin of the realm, paper kind in a plain brown envelope ? :E:E

[cornish-stormrider]

Accepting a financial bribe is a crime.......
Snacks can be classed as "Emergency Rations" and besides by the time the dibble appear the evidence has been eaten

[Stitchbitch]

You could always try here: RAF BBMF - Contacts (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/contacts.cfm)

Plymouth normally gets something on Armed Forces day.:ok:

[air pig]

Bribe bribe, who dare you Sir, charitable donation is a better way of looking at it. :E::E looking at the shape of those in dibble these day, they'd probably want to eat the evidence.