Originally Posted by
Wee Weasley Welshman
ZA714 flew over my house about seven minutes ago at what I estimate to be 200ft and 90kts. His mate flew in formation 10 seconds behind and to the left.
I was at the British shooting show last weekend and bought my first digital night scope which I was out playing with in the dark. I had a cracking view. Thing is for a pair of CH47's they were really quiet. It's a calm evening in wide open countryside but I only heard them about 30 seconds before they flew right over. Which seems unlikely! I have actually flown in Chinooks a couple of times in the 1990's. Tonight there was no wokka wokka audible from ten miles away...
Have they got different rotor blades or something these days?
it was pretty dark with a 30% moon and a misty night air and they were bloody low.
They flew over my town and sounded pretty normal to me. Because of the unusual hour I looked them up on ADSB and it seems both rotary and fast jet were doing some night flying.