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Live right next to Wyton and a Tornado, Jaguar & harrier landed there at 10.00am this morning then departed at 15.30. Nice to see some real aircraft there for a change. Just wondered why they were there today, something to do with the MOD i guess.
That's a day out ?? Mmmm - lucky chaps!
Wonder whether it woke up all the desk-sucking blotter-jotter chair-polishers in the Bull$hit Pavilions? At least it may have reminded them that the RAF does actually have some aeroplanes!
Wonder whether it woke up all the desk-sucking blotter-jotter chair-polishers in the Bull$hit Pavilions? At least it may have reminded them that the RAF does actually have some aeroplanes!
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Heard a story that a Harrier mate who was posted to the 'Great Pavillion' in the mid 90's used to open his meetings there with a fellow Bona-mate from up the road doing an IP-TGT run, the TOT being the appointed start time for the meeting. The opening sentance went along the lines of - "That, Gentlemen, is what the RAF is really about". Is that why a NOTAM went out about this time trying to dissuade fast-jets from overflying Wyton?
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Harsh Comments Beagle! Please never forget that without the hard working civil servants at MOD Wyton the RAF would rapidly grind to a halt. In fact how do you manage at weekends without us all????
(Disgruntled of Wyton - and yes, they really believe that Bull$hit here).
P.S. Nice to get a chance to sniff exhausts close up again
(Disgruntled of Wyton - and yes, they really believe that Bull$hit here).
P.S. Nice to get a chance to sniff exhausts close up again
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DH - disturbing the poor blanket-stackers had nothing to do with stopping the use of Wyton as a tgt. That's when the Cambridgeshire Police Helicopter Support Unit was formed and based on the airfield - before the UASs and AEF moved in.
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Whoever, whatever and whyever it was......don't care really, just keep doing it, chaps!! At least that way the airfield will be kept properly open, 'cause once it stops, it can stop for good!
Hope they managed to upset all the numpty nimbys in the surrounding villages who constantly gripe on about a few tupperware trainers flying over their houses at weekends - they should have been there in the old days!
You can't beat the howl of a J79 at 4am as another RF-4 lobs into Alconbury off an exercise - my house was right underneath the approach - and I loved it!!!
Hope they managed to upset all the numpty nimbys in the surrounding villages who constantly gripe on about a few tupperware trainers flying over their houses at weekends - they should have been there in the old days!
You can't beat the howl of a J79 at 4am as another RF-4 lobs into Alconbury off an exercise - my house was right underneath the approach - and I loved it!!!
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I also live under the approach path to Alconbury and remember very well the RF-4C's going over day & night, a noise that most people could never forget. However i find it amazing the amount of letters in the local papers from people complaining about the noise of the Grobs flying over the local area, they soon forget.
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just why did the yanks fly at such stupid times? i can remember ang f4s doing cloud breaks at leuchars at 3 in the morning and anyone remember when lakenheath went low lying on boxing day? yes it did hit the fan!
All this talk of F4s is making me quite nostalgic. Does anyone remember the Aggressor detachments to Alconbury, with long nights in the Red Bear bar. The aggressor work up was still the best DACT training the RAF ever had.
Ah, the good old days when the threat was from the east.
Ah, the good old days when the threat was from the east.
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He fellas! lay off the local population! I are one, and apart from ONE letter in the local papers, there have been no grumblings from surrounding villages. Au contraire, everybody is happy that there is activity continuing at Wyton. A mate on the Parish Council confirms that the villagers have no beefs with the RAF.
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Not only Alconbury's Phants but also Wyton's 543Sqd PR Victors doing full-bore engine runs at night. And 51Sqd's Comet at all hours of the night, and 39Sqd's PR.9s, EWETU's Canberras, the occasional Varsity . . . oh, and a couple or three Chipmunks.
I remember down in St Ives market, people would just stop talking for a minute while a Phant turned onto approach overhead.
But never encountered any real hostility or grumbling about the noise, only about the fact that TV reception would go all "wooly" with an F4 or Victor flying over on approach.
Sound of freedom gents.
I remember down in St Ives market, people would just stop talking for a minute while a Phant turned onto approach overhead.
But never encountered any real hostility or grumbling about the noise, only about the fact that TV reception would go all "wooly" with an F4 or Victor flying over on approach.
Sound of freedom gents.
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Have a couple of mates based at Wyton on the AEF and I am reliably informed that the Fast Jet-fest on the afforementioned date was part of a Families day for the Direct Entry Flight. Furthermore, Several Fast Jets recently LANDED (Gasp) at Wyton and it was used earlier in July as the FOB for the Apache evaluation. Finally, anybody see the F-86 that flew through a few days ago? Stirring stuff.
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Afirm - the FJ's were there on the invitation of the DE flight for a families day. Local residents may be aware that on graduation the DE flight usually arranges a fly-past, the last one comprising F3's, GR4's, a Dominie etc....
Stiring stuff for those of us in the vicinity.
Also can recall a very low and fast flypast by the new Marham Stn Cdr, taking a break from his display practice....magic!
And yes, the Sabre was cool, although I bet it was fun trying to integrate that into the Circuit!!!!!!!
Stiring stuff for those of us in the vicinity.
Also can recall a very low and fast flypast by the new Marham Stn Cdr, taking a break from his display practice....magic!
And yes, the Sabre was cool, although I bet it was fun trying to integrate that into the Circuit!!!!!!!
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Sadly, as a St Ivian I also remember the Canberra assymetric on finals onto Oxmoor [~ 1972] and the two SR2 Victor nasties, the second at night. very numbing when a V Bomber misbehaves esp. in sight of the airfield. The crews IIRC are buried at Houghton.
The SR2 had some outrageous angle of climb - 70 odd degrees - to keep the speed down while the gear came in, and whenever you saw one on air test, it was worth stopping for.
Blown flaps on the Rf4Cs - many a boy learnt to whistle to those. Seeing the night formation landings with the electro luminenscent strips was wierd at first. I remember the RB66's. Sigh. Age.
I see they have finally flogged the underground secret complex over the road from the pen pushers. Last of the great cold war recce relics.
What news on Alconbury and its 'Aerial freight hub' ambitions?
The SR2 had some outrageous angle of climb - 70 odd degrees - to keep the speed down while the gear came in, and whenever you saw one on air test, it was worth stopping for.
Blown flaps on the Rf4Cs - many a boy learnt to whistle to those
. Seeing the night formation landings with the electro luminenscent strips was wierd at first. I remember the RB66's. Sigh. Age.I see they have finally flogged the underground secret complex over the road from the pen pushers. Last of the great cold war recce relics.
What news on Alconbury and its 'Aerial freight hub' ambitions?
Remember a UAS summer camp at Wyton when we were converting onto the 'Dog. One afternoon a huge fireball went up at Alconbury. It was explained to us that this was a F4 that had inadvertently dropped a tank, presumably whilst in a (tight) circuit. Sounds a bit implausible, but it was certainly spectacular.
Also recall a large bit of burnt grass (tho it might have been at Marham) which was said to be the location of one of those SR2 disasters mentioned above.
Nimbys in E Anglia must also have forgotten the pleasures of A10's by now....
Also recall a large bit of burnt grass (tho it might have been at Marham) which was said to be the location of one of those SR2 disasters mentioned above.
Nimbys in E Anglia must also have forgotten the pleasures of A10's by now....
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Remember the Tankbusters very well. Used to get them doing low level exercises over my house! Our next door neighbour flew them too - boy was his son the "in kid" at school! It was around the time of Top Gun and he was Maverick to us youngsters!! lol
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More activity at wyton again today, a Nimrod made a approach on 09 this morning at 09.15Z pulling up and banking steeply over St Ives! beautifull sight. Shortly followed by several FJ's making high speed passes over the field, keep it up guys it's great to see real a/c at wyton.
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