Please fly over my house!
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Please fly over my house!
Just to balance the other thread...
Frensham, Surrey N 51 8' 37.4'' W 0 47' 40.2''
As an aside, thanks to the Chinook pair low flying up from Frensham Pond towards Grayshott this afternoon - great flying and most impressive. More please
Fly safe everyone
Frensham, Surrey N 51 8' 37.4'' W 0 47' 40.2''
As an aside, thanks to the Chinook pair low flying up from Frensham Pond towards Grayshott this afternoon - great flying and most impressive. More please
Fly safe everyone
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Hi Wokkafan,
Given your proximity to Odiham you'll be more than likely to get Wokka traffic, though sadly given your part of the country, proximity to numerous built up areas, High Intensity Radio Transmission Arrays and the occasional danger area you'd be unlikely to see fixed wing traffic. I imagine you're probably after more hydraulic palm trees though?
^Click the thumbnail to get the hi-res image^
Given your proximity to Odiham you'll be more than likely to get Wokka traffic, though sadly given your part of the country, proximity to numerous built up areas, High Intensity Radio Transmission Arrays and the occasional danger area you'd be unlikely to see fixed wing traffic. I imagine you're probably after more hydraulic palm trees though?
^Click the thumbnail to get the hi-res image^
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Glad your are enjoying yourself
Plenty of Rotary here as you can guess but we still get the occasional low flying fixed wing, mainly heritage stuff in transit (B17, Spits, Hurricanes, Vulcan etc) avoiding the Heathrow traffic. Also, and rarely, a Tonka now and again transiting from shows.
Cheers,
WF
Plenty of Rotary here as you can guess but we still get the occasional low flying fixed wing, mainly heritage stuff in transit (B17, Spits, Hurricanes, Vulcan etc) avoiding the Heathrow traffic. Also, and rarely, a Tonka now and again transiting from shows.
Cheers,
WF
Pretty sure I took an F3 past there low level in 1993, my last flight in the RAF, on the way back from the Folkestone air show. It's shark-infested custard sarf of the River. I don't think I was on any heading for as long as two minutes.
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15:36 - Thank you! (and the one at 3am ish)
Monday 1 October time: 0358 hours BST wokka wokka over my house heading approx north-west, sounding like medium height. House located 2 miles east of J18 of M1 and same distance south east of M1/M6/A14 junction - Catthorpe Interchange.
Now what do you suppose that was doing?
O-D
Now what do you suppose that was doing?
O-D
Sutton, Cambs (nr Ely) gets interesting. Valley down one side of the village is quite often used by Tonkas, Wokkas and the occasional Fat Albert heading towards Earith. Trouble is am never in the right place with a camera to catch either a level view or one looking down on said a/c. We also, when the Mildenhall/Lakenheath MATZ (KC/EC 135's, C/EC-130's etc)is not over us, get the odd Spit from Duxford practicing aeros over the former RAF Mepal behind us or one of the Tutors from a nearby base trying to make the Stude/ATC cadet go green.
Quiet varied really and long may it continue!.
Quiet varied really and long may it continue!.
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Feel free to fly-by, please.
SE edge of Warton MATZ, south side of A59.
N53 42' 16"
W002 47' 56"
Warton's very quiet these days but the occasional (sometimes ski-fitted) Wokka heading into Lancs Police HQ 2 miles up the A59, pair of transitting Apaches, Shawbury Griff' or Squirrel or NI bound Puma are not unknown to pass nearby en-route to WTN or BLK but they are always a mile it 2 away.
Here's hoping. Safe flying, boys & girls!
SE edge of Warton MATZ, south side of A59.
N53 42' 16"
W002 47' 56"
Warton's very quiet these days but the occasional (sometimes ski-fitted) Wokka heading into Lancs Police HQ 2 miles up the A59, pair of transitting Apaches, Shawbury Griff' or Squirrel or NI bound Puma are not unknown to pass nearby en-route to WTN or BLK but they are always a mile it 2 away.
Here's hoping. Safe flying, boys & girls!
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You need bigger pigs - our herd is totaly unfazed by the Chinooks landing/hovering in the field opposite! I think the low level vibration also helps tenderise the meat 
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When I was a schoolboy living on top of a hill in Henleaze, Bristol we were under the landing circuit for Filton had all sorts of interesting aircraft fly over.
Military
The Volunteer Reserve 600-series squadrons were flying Vampires and they would fly over en masse, in formations of sixteen or more, sometimes in four rows of four, which is how they did massed take-offs, and sometimes in a swan formation, representing their crest.
Civil
From 1949 to 1952 the Brabazon was a familiar sight as it flew its many test flights. Walter Gibb told me that for stall alone there were ninety-six tests as he stalled it with flaps up/half/down, cg forward/aft, rudder left/right etc. I never managed to work out the full 96 combinations. Bill Chapman in the flight observer test team told me some of these events were white knuckle rides, especially the time when he forgot to strap in.
The low growl of the Brab's eight Hercules, sync'd in flight but un-sync'd for take-off and landing, could be heard five or ten minutes before she arrived, so there was plently of time to dash out and watch. And on Sundays or school holidays we'd all cycle out to Filton to stand by the filling station and be under the Brab when she landed. The nose would loom slowly overhead, you would watch it go over, then it would go dark, and then you could turn round and watch the the tail go over. If it was a short landing the pilot had to line up so the landing gear went between the lamp-posts. Later on they lowered the lamp-posts, what a swizz!
One sight I saw over our house was absolutely unique. There was a short period of time when the Brab, G-AGPW, had yet to be scrapped yet the first Britannia, G-ALBO, was already flying. I was absolutely enthralled when I heard the Brab and looked up to see the two of them flying together in close formation. Nobody else recalls this and my requests for copies of flight logs have gone nowhere, so this is one very private and personal recollection.
The gentleman across the road was often outside working on his lovely Austin Seven Tourer, and I used to go and watch. One week he had his neck in plaster. Concerned about this, I asked how it had happened. Oh, he said, I was looping the Bulldog at Farnborough and the engine cut. Of course this was the Bristol Bulldog the Filton apprentices had restored. I think the test pilot's name was Williamson.
Please Fly Over My House
In the school CCF we had rides from Filton in the University Air Squadron Chipmunks. On one flight I said to the pilot "Please fly over my house", and he did, at a safe height of course, giving a quick wing waggle to attract attention.
Sorry some the pics are not quite right, I've tried to get the closest I can. The lad in the Chipmunk is not me, I would have been in CCF uniform and wearing leather helmet/headset.
Military
The Volunteer Reserve 600-series squadrons were flying Vampires and they would fly over en masse, in formations of sixteen or more, sometimes in four rows of four, which is how they did massed take-offs, and sometimes in a swan formation, representing their crest.
Civil
From 1949 to 1952 the Brabazon was a familiar sight as it flew its many test flights. Walter Gibb told me that for stall alone there were ninety-six tests as he stalled it with flaps up/half/down, cg forward/aft, rudder left/right etc. I never managed to work out the full 96 combinations. Bill Chapman in the flight observer test team told me some of these events were white knuckle rides, especially the time when he forgot to strap in.
The low growl of the Brab's eight Hercules, sync'd in flight but un-sync'd for take-off and landing, could be heard five or ten minutes before she arrived, so there was plently of time to dash out and watch. And on Sundays or school holidays we'd all cycle out to Filton to stand by the filling station and be under the Brab when she landed. The nose would loom slowly overhead, you would watch it go over, then it would go dark, and then you could turn round and watch the the tail go over. If it was a short landing the pilot had to line up so the landing gear went between the lamp-posts. Later on they lowered the lamp-posts, what a swizz!
One sight I saw over our house was absolutely unique. There was a short period of time when the Brab, G-AGPW, had yet to be scrapped yet the first Britannia, G-ALBO, was already flying. I was absolutely enthralled when I heard the Brab and looked up to see the two of them flying together in close formation. Nobody else recalls this and my requests for copies of flight logs have gone nowhere, so this is one very private and personal recollection.
The gentleman across the road was often outside working on his lovely Austin Seven Tourer, and I used to go and watch. One week he had his neck in plaster. Concerned about this, I asked how it had happened. Oh, he said, I was looping the Bulldog at Farnborough and the engine cut. Of course this was the Bristol Bulldog the Filton apprentices had restored. I think the test pilot's name was Williamson.
Please Fly Over My House
In the school CCF we had rides from Filton in the University Air Squadron Chipmunks. On one flight I said to the pilot "Please fly over my house", and he did, at a safe height of course, giving a quick wing waggle to attract attention.
Sorry some the pics are not quite right, I've tried to get the closest I can. The lad in the Chipmunk is not me, I would have been in CCF uniform and wearing leather helmet/headset.
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I would actually like to complain about a certain police helicopter that flies over and around where I live, near the botanical gardens, rather a lot. It is nearly always at night, shines a bright light and moves around. Yes, you know who you are G-SPAO.
I would rather they would stay in one place long enough for me to get my camera so I can get a good photograph. Hover over the football pitch this weekend, during daylight, and I shall be pleased.
If any other aircraft would care to join them, please do.
I would rather they would stay in one place long enough for me to get my camera so I can get a good photograph. Hover over the football pitch this weekend, during daylight, and I shall be pleased.
If any other aircraft would care to join them, please do.