View Full Version : Strange Aircraft over Andover Last night?
scudpilot
21st Mar 2011, 12:05
A friend reported hearing a particularly loud aircraft over Andover last night, I suspect it may have some bearing on what's going on in Libya currently, and may have been departing Fairford....
Would be interested to know what it was (as long as it's not too secret of course... fully aware of "careless talk costs lives" etc)
KBPsen
21st Mar 2011, 12:14
Must have been circling.
scudpilot
21st Mar 2011, 15:30
any idea what type though?
forget
21st Mar 2011, 16:27
KB, Don't you just hate it when a good joke is completely wasted. :rolleyes:
Hartington
21st Mar 2011, 22:03
Why would a plane out of Boscombe be involved JENKINS?
Or am I extrapolating much too much?
Phileas Fogg
21st Mar 2011, 23:06
Because Boscombe have the capability to launch Red Rover in an Andover over Andover over!
http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/0/6/9/1007960.jpg
KBPsen
22nd Mar 2011, 00:37
Yes Forget, it flew right over their heads. :hmm:
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
22nd Mar 2011, 07:49
I got KBPs joke - most succinct!
(as long as it's not too secret of course... fully aware of "careless talk costs lives" etc)
Now don't worry about that. The Libyan military intelligence are still fully absorbed trying to find out about the mysterious "VC10 Tristar" so reliably reported in the BBC breakfast news this morning. They must have bought all the copies of the "Ian Allen Military Planes Spottoguide" from the Tripoli bookshops to see what it is.
SpringHeeledJack
22nd Mar 2011, 23:45
So......What was it ? Curiosity killed the cat and all that :)
SHJ
Phileas Fogg
23rd Mar 2011, 14:20
SHJ,
Reports suggest it was a particularly loud aircraft.
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
24th Mar 2011, 11:59
<<Red Rover in an Andover over Andover over!>>
Sounds like a derivation of the oldie: "Radar 'andover. Andover over Dover, over.."
ManofMan
24th Mar 2011, 14:15
Still not telling, but a thread elsewhere on the subject of large aircraft belonging to our cousins across the Atlantic and the use of long British runways by the same might be worth a gander - or a goose for that matter.
Well one thing is for sure, whatever was heard was not operating out of Fairford, nothing is...until the V-22's later this month :oh:
scudpilot
24th Mar 2011, 21:05
any chance of a link ?
:confused:
Phileas Fogg
24th Mar 2011, 21:25
http://www.paulandhelenharris.co.uk/link.jpg