Six Chinooks over Worthing
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Six Chinooks over Worthing
On the afternoon of 5th April (yesterday as I write) at 13.40 I heard and then saw a flight of six Chinooks travelling west along the coast at quite low altitude. I have never before seen them here in larger numbers than pairs and usually singly. I assume that it was a repositioning flight but from and to where I have no idea.
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Where did this flight originate? I doubt that the USAF has a base at Lydd. FWIW, as a schoolboy in (I think) 1966 I crossed the channel in a Bristol Superfreighter from Lydd.
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edit: a bunch of OH-58s at Greenham as well!
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Not forgetting the Attack on Yeovilton at the end of the Air Days in the 60s and 70s.
Many Sea Vixens, Buccaneers and Phantoms followed by an assault by the Royal Marines in lots of Wessex.
I remember one where a Sea Vixen punched through a perfect smoke ring from one of the "bombs".
Many Sea Vixens, Buccaneers and Phantoms followed by an assault by the Royal Marines in lots of Wessex.
I remember one where a Sea Vixen punched through a perfect smoke ring from one of the "bombs".
While mentioning large flights of helicopters I'm surprised no one mentioned the 80+ French Army helicopters [Pumas and Gazelles] that flew into the UK landing at Netheravon in 2001 for an exercise.
Some photos [not mine] can be viewed here:
Some photos [not mine] can be viewed here:
