Lyneham This AM
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Anyone any idea what the 4-engined civvy-looking heavy on a Runway 07 approach to Lyneham around 09.10 this morning was? I'm no expert when it comes to airliners and I thought at first maybe it was an A340 but the engines looked more like something you'd expect on an old 707 (longish and thinnish with a funny crown-shaped thing on the exhausts) and the fuselage looked a bit thin for an A340. I couldn't see any identification on it from where I was standing.
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Yes I wondered about that myself, but the nose didn't really look right and it looked pretty long for a DC-8 (could've been a stretched one I suppose). Whatever it was, I wonder what it was doing going into Lyneham.
All on freight these days. Fascinating to watch though - classic 4 smoke trails, all definitely from a different era.
I've just seen a Heron fly past my window. Somebody on the estate must have a pond.
I've just seen a Heron fly past my window. Somebody on the estate must have a pond.
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You say "If you know then you know. If you don't, then you don't need to know". You may very well be right about that. However, I probably know a lot of things that I don't need to know - that's what makes the world such an interesting place to me. I imagine if you impose this maxim on yourself, your world must be pretty limited in its scope.
BTW, what constitutes an "old PPRUNE crusty" in your opinion? You're hardly a spring chicken yourself now are you?
You say "If you know then you know. If you don't, then you don't need to know". You may very well be right about that. However, I probably know a lot of things that I don't need to know - that's what makes the world such an interesting place to me. I imagine if you impose this maxim on yourself, your world must be pretty limited in its scope.
BTW, what constitutes an "old PPRUNE crusty" in your opinion? You're hardly a spring chicken yourself now are you?
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I imagine the arrest and detention of a Tory MP guilty of discovering what the Home Office knew and we didn't (because they were hiding it from us)rather focuses the mind towards on the need to know issue!
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Secret Squirrel Airlines
It's a well known fact that anyone working for the military in secret squirrel airlines et al don't even file flight plans.
God there are some anal people on these threads. If it was that much of a secret, they'd operate into a different MOD airfield.
Wasn't so long ago there was an Eastern European presence in Wootten Bassett to keep an eye on what was happening across the airfield perimeter fence.
There's a great Yorkshire expression 'Get yersen felt' which basically means 'get your head out of your @rse'.
I reckon it applies here. It was a reasonable question.
Some civil aircraft are employed to carry freight etc into Kabul, Kandahar, Baghdad and other such sandy places - it's possibly/probably one of those.
God there are some anal people on these threads. If it was that much of a secret, they'd operate into a different MOD airfield.
Wasn't so long ago there was an Eastern European presence in Wootten Bassett to keep an eye on what was happening across the airfield perimeter fence.
There's a great Yorkshire expression 'Get yersen felt' which basically means 'get your head out of your @rse'.
I reckon it applies here. It was a reasonable question.
Some civil aircraft are employed to carry freight etc into Kabul, Kandahar, Baghdad and other such sandy places - it's possibly/probably one of those.
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The DC-8 in question is this one: 9G-RAC Dc8 62 Lyneham :: Sun87251z.jpg :: Fotopic.Net
But not half as interesting as the little Swedish hotrod that's been buzzing around this week...
But not half as interesting as the little Swedish hotrod that's been buzzing around this week...
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The problem with compartmentalisation, is that often, living within the compartment you don't know what is going on outside it! For most of us, our reaction to the OP's question would be as given.
However, the information is out there,and often from official sources. Google is a wonderful tool. For example, a quick google on DC8 Lyneham found
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/589/erg_ep...xceptional.pdf
So that's what they are doing at Lyneham. Transporting supplies.
Hell, these even a photo of one on this thread:
http://www.pprune.org/spectators-bal...-london-2.html
Now if you were to ask 'what are they carrying', 'when do they leave' etc then that would be need to know.
However, the information is out there,and often from official sources. Google is a wonderful tool. For example, a quick google on DC8 Lyneham found
MK Airlines
DC8-55F 9G-MKC 4LA/4TO Brize Norton or Lyneham 28.3–4.4.03
to transport supplies to UK troops in Gulf via Kuwait/Fujairah
DC8-55F 9G-MKC 4LA/4TO Brize Norton or Lyneham 28.3–4.4.03
to transport supplies to UK troops in Gulf via Kuwait/Fujairah
So that's what they are doing at Lyneham. Transporting supplies.
Hell, these even a photo of one on this thread:
http://www.pprune.org/spectators-bal...-london-2.html
Now if you were to ask 'what are they carrying', 'when do they leave' etc then that would be need to know.
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Well Flt. Lt. Mac, I'm certainly not so interested as to go wasting the time of Lyneham Ops. to assuage my curiosity - I'm sure they have far better things to be getting on with (unlike you and me ). It's just that I've worked in the Chippenham area for almost 15 years and this is the first time I've observed a DC-8 inbound to Lyneham so I was just interested - even though it seems that it's maybe not such a rare occurrence after all. Actually, to tell the truth, it's the first time I've seen a real live DC-8 - I'll get my anorak...
). It's just that I've worked in the Chippenham area for almost 15 years and this is the first time I've observed a DC-8 inbound to Lyneham so I was just interested - even though it seems that it's maybe not such a rare occurrence after all. Actually, to tell the truth, it's the first time I've seen a real live DC-8 - I'll get my anorak...
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As it is a civvy frame, if you tune your VHF airband radio, which I'm sure as a bona fide spotter you will have, to EGDL's approach/departure frequency you may get some clues....I believe the said frames adopt the callsign "Janet nnnn"
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So EOSM37 berates the thread originator for asking about some info legally and readily available on the web.
Then Top Bunk Tester suggests the originator breaks the law by saying
Good skills 
Then Top Bunk Tester suggests the originator breaks the law by saying
...tune your VHF airband radio...to EGDL's approach/departure frequency...
Hey guys, it's really no big deal. If you all promise to keep it to yourselves I'll let you know what's going on....
The DC-8 is running small, high value, items of contraband (antiques, paintings, jewelery, etc) into the country for the royal family, senior politicians (of all parties), freemasons and the powerful people who lurk in dark shadows but really run the country.
On it's outbound flights it is taking out crashed UFO parts and alien bodies for examination in one of the series of secret laboratories set uparound the planet.
However, perhaps it's most important, and sensitive role is.......
Hold on, there's someone at the door, don't go away, I'll be right back....
The DC-8 is running small, high value, items of contraband (antiques, paintings, jewelery, etc) into the country for the royal family, senior politicians (of all parties), freemasons and the powerful people who lurk in dark shadows but really run the country.
On it's outbound flights it is taking out crashed UFO parts and alien bodies for examination in one of the series of secret laboratories set uparound the planet.
However, perhaps it's most important, and sensitive role is.......
Hold on, there's someone at the door, don't go away, I'll be right back....
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Anotherthing
humour noun [U]
the ability to be amused by things, the way in which people see that some things are amusing or the quality of being amusing:
He's got a great sense of humour (= he is very able to see things as amusing).
I must say I find his schoolboy (= childish) humour rather tiresome.
The Cambridge Online Dictionary
humour noun [U]
the ability to be amused by things, the way in which people see that some things are amusing or the quality of being amusing:
He's got a great sense of humour (= he is very able to see things as amusing).
I must say I find his schoolboy (= childish) humour rather tiresome.
The Cambridge Online Dictionary
On its outbound flights it is taking out crashed UFO parts and alien bodies for examination in one of the series of secret laboratories set up around the planet.
You mean the ones which used to be stored here before it (allegedly) closed:
RAF Rudloe Manor
Why has that black Omega got so many aerials.......
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