Night Flying Chinooks
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Night Flying Chinooks
To those Chinook crews who are taking their wokkas south of Newbury, heading west en route SPTA at night, lights out at low level, would they mind sending a few more over, and lower please. My boys and I love it and its terribly exciting feeling that incoming WHAP of the blades as you head towards us. Plus, it probably keeps up the boring old coffin dodgers that live to whinge in our village. Happy to give you a lat/long for an extra WP for your route!
Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work!
There's some sort of Jabba-Wokka banter there but...
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MGD, many thanks. If you can, great, if not, understood.
Got any Aussie groundcrew on exchange? You could present him with an OckaWokkaChokka'sLocker to keep his kit in.
I'll stop now, promise...
Got any Aussie groundcrew on exchange? You could present him with an OckaWokkaChokka'sLocker to keep his kit in.
I'll stop now, promise...
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Got wired at 19.19 last night but it sounded like a Merlin, no blade thump and only about 10sec warning, dogs didn't even wake up, you on leave Diplomat?
at 19.19 last night but it sounded like a Merlin, no blade thump and only about 10sec warning, dogs didn't even wake up, you on leave Diplomat?
Ufortunately, Wokkas may be welcome south of Farnham, but Field Marshall, Lord Bramall does not like us anywhere near Crondall, even though it is on the IF pattern to RW10
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Personally, I never had a problem with direct overflight (if inevitable, e.g. late show) of a large country house/Lord Bramall's-stylie gaff as opposed to a village/larger conurbation. Reason being you are more likely to wake up babies/freak people/annoy more by going over the village and irritating more people.
I think any rotary mate reading this will recognize the dilemma of spotting horses with riders at 200 metres. Go steady, stick it on it's ear with resultant blade slap or pull up. I will never tire of seeing low-flying aircraft, especially noisy ones. As long as it over some retired politician's house at the weekend. Kinnock would work for me. Grid ref anyone?
I think any rotary mate reading this will recognize the dilemma of spotting horses with riders at 200 metres. Go steady, stick it on it's ear with resultant blade slap or pull up. I will never tire of seeing low-flying aircraft, especially noisy ones. As long as it over some retired politician's house at the weekend. Kinnock would work for me. Grid ref anyone?
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The noble Lord who......
on the 27th August 2006 hit Lord Janner, 78, a veteran campaigner for Holocaust victims and a senior member of Britain's Jewish community, after making what witnesses claim were a series of 'anti-Israel' comments during an argument over the Lebanon conflict.......
A military NIMBY, [should be an oxymoron] but sadly too many old f*rts retire and think they control and own all land they can see.
on the 27th August 2006 hit Lord Janner, 78, a veteran campaigner for Holocaust victims and a senior member of Britain's Jewish community, after making what witnesses claim were a series of 'anti-Israel' comments during an argument over the Lebanon conflict.......
A military NIMBY, [should be an oxymoron] but sadly too many old f*rts retire and think they control and own all land they can see.
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Night Flying Chinooks
NN11 4LE. Would love to see one flying over here, would make a nice change from the police helo which seems to spend alot of time hovering over our estate.
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Just had a wonderful sight at sunset of a four wokka formation just over the edge of our village in North Hampshire heading back to Odiham. I could feel the sound through my desk chair. Quite made my day.
minigundiplomat: checked your compass against gyro recently? Crondall is on the IAP to 28 not 10.
Monty 77: want the co-ords for a large house near Wendover?
Monty 77: want the co-ords for a large house near Wendover?
