Lyneham This AM
 

Sounds like a DC8 to me.

It's a stretched, civi freighter DC8 that has been operating in and out of the Lima Alpha for some years now. Flies over my house on a regular basis.

3P:ok:

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.

Thanks 3P - mystery solved. Any idea what purpose it serves?

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 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!

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.

Or it could have been picking up the Aurora that went u/s last night :E

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...:cool:

That explains the stuttering ramjet noise that I heard in bed last night.:ok:

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.

Like this one?
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/m...g?t=1228318758


http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/m...g?t=1228318671

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...

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" ;)

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 :}

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....

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

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...rnet/zxzxz.jpg

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.......:oh: