Large Helicopter Southampton Area
 

There has been a 'large' helicopter (certainly not a Chinook) flying directly north from Southampton area (and fairly low) at around 11pm each night this week.

Its clearly a large machine, but too dark (of course) to identify, I'm just intrigued to see if anyone has any knowledge of what and why?

Thanks

C

Helicopters - the answer
 

Ah, that will be the........

I get a large helicopter (which IS a Chinook) near my house about 1130pm every tuesday, but then I live half a mile from H3 so it's not surprising.

I live About 25miles East of Exeter and often hear a helicopter around 00:00, Its not a chinook (as far as im aware), Flying pretty low and fast and making hell of a sound a lot more then most others that pass over.

The sound of a Chinook is unique, which makes it easily identifiable.

If it doesn't sound like one it ain't one.

Try a Merlin
 

Large Military helicopter, Green for RAF (Mk3) and Grey for the Navy (Mk1) Can't miss them when flying, recently, end of July, saw one transiting low level noth of Stockbridge heading south.