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SirToppamHat 12th Aug 2007 20:26


Despite my laying down a challenge last year, no Tornado has yet found SJ 328150. No other RAF aircraft has either.
By my reckoning this is:

52°43’41.19” N 002°59’42.67” W

I think this is in Wales ... just.

But I might be wrong!

STH
AKA 'Bored of Lincolnshire'

ACW599 12th Aug 2007 21:01

>By my reckoning this is 52°43’41.19” N 002°59’42.67” W. I think this is in Wales ... just.<

Indeed it is -- just over the border. The actual co-ordinates are N52°43’42” W002°59’48” (or in decimal 52.72842N 2.99677W). Failing that, SJ 32790 14987 (OSGB36). The UTM is 30U 500225 5842050. It's in LFA9, but Shawbury Low Level is on 376.675 and Ops is Extn 7227 (DFTS 95531).

But no RAF aircraft will ever find it . . .

212man 13th Aug 2007 01:38

I assume, from the large aerial in your garden, that you are a radio ham too? ;)

(Boots lost the photos I took:E)

Re-Heat 13th Aug 2007 03:07

Could be get a noise request thread started then...:E...I'll ask for Central London down the Thames - fewer helicopters and more noise please.

Nah, someone will deem it a security risk, but it's a thought...

ACW599 13th Aug 2007 08:48

>I assume, from the large aerial in your garden, that you are a radio ham too?<

GW4FRX couldn't possibly comment :-)

ExRAFRadar 13th Aug 2007 09:52

Bit surprised by some of the venom in the early posts to what appears to be a gentle windup.

SOH Failure for some of you ?

I thought the smileys gave it away but obvouisly not. And of course posting on Pprune will always get an exericse stopped. :hmm:

A589 13th Aug 2007 10:16

No RAF aircraft will ever find it
 
DJ Bazza did;)

ACW599 13th Aug 2007 11:18

>DJ Bazza did<

Talk is cheap. Where are the incriminating photographs? ;)

Cpt_Pugwash 13th Aug 2007 12:19

You forgot IO82MR, John. Bet your QRZ.com lookups have gone through the roof now.;)

73

ACW599 13th Aug 2007 13:04

>You forgot IO82MR, John. Bet your QRZ.com lookups have gone through the roof now.<

Funny you should say that. Now there's a Nimrod R1 circling overhead, a black Chinook hovering just over the wood at the back and a black Omega has just pulled up outside the

reynoldsno1 13th Aug 2007 20:34


The residents of Dorset will not forget WW11
Being a Dorset lad meself originally, I don't think too many of the present residents of Dorset were there in WW2 - last time I was in me Mum's village I could not hear a single Dorset accent....

If they don't like it in West Dorset
The isle of Purbeck 'tis in the East of the county...:8

A589 17th Aug 2007 18:43

Brixmis ???????


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