large slow noisy prop over Blackpool

[Germstone]

22:46 on 22-10-09

sounded large(did not get outside to see it) and slow...could be heard for a long time anyone got any idea of type and operator??

[Dazbo5]

Germstone,

What time was it? An RAF Hercules did an approach and go to runway 10 at about 1510, could it have been that?

Darren

[Nearly There]

Probably not as Germstone heard it around 22:46, if you read the first line again..

[JEM60]

An Electra from Atlantic Airways, Coventry, perhaps?

[Germstone]

I did consider it may have been the C130 as I had seen it overhead earlier....But it did not sound quite the same.

possibly an atlantic Electra or something Russian maybe?... it was certainly a more unusual sounding aircraft.

[Sandy_Hill]

Saw the offenders around 23.00.West to East transit near to Blackpool (tall) Tower.Reliably informed they were a pair of MC-130P's.Sounded slightly different to a normal Herc though.

[Germstone]

Thanks Sandy

That clears that up then prob sounded different as it was a pair in formation :-)

[Guest 112233]

With Halloween Comming Up

I think it was the "Ghost" of one of those B36's from Burtonwood - With Halloween cumming up you might even hear a the early jet howl of an escort of Banshees' through the murkey stillness of a Lancashire night too. A portent of another wet summer in Blackpool.

CAT III (In his balsawood Sprit).