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Sat watching day 2 of the Tour whilst nursing a fractured fibula, I hear a helicopter. I went and had a look out the conservatory and there, flying, was a yellow HAR3 Westland Seaking. I don’t know if I’m losing it or not, but wasn’t aware that there was any left in service. Was nice to see and hear (engines seemed a tad smoky) but it was heading north towards Kendal. Is it a privateer helicopter now?
Up on Beachy Head today and had a Spitfire charge over, pull a big banked turn over Eastbourne and then a barrel roll over the Head again, had to do a bit of a double take as presumed most if not all were in museums by now. Know chuff all about planes though so could have been something which looks like one...
^^ I think they are doing a tour over hospitals or something down here in the south?
Loads* of actual Spitfires still flying...
*loads means 10-30'ish I believe :o)
Up on Beachy Head today and had a Spitfire charge over, pull a big banked turn over Eastbourne and then a barrel roll over the Head again, had to do a bit of a double take as presumed most if not all were in museums by now. Know chuff all about planes though so could have been something which looks like one…
Quite possible, there are quite a few still flying. The RAF battle of Britain flight for starters and several in private hands.
*Edit, a quick Google suggests 60 airworthy Spitfires worldwide, of which 30 are in the UK. More than I thought!
Shows how little I know about aeroplanes then! Further Google search reveals you can pay for it
https://flyaspitfire.com/45-minute-beachy-head-spitfire-flight
A mere £4K.
Spitfire over Littleborough today, came from Huddersfield direction, did a loop over Rochdale then headed off towards Oldham. Love that sound.
My neighbour had Hurricane until 2 years ago. Brilliant to hear it fired up of a morning.
A yellow Sea King might have been G-SKNG, see www.historichelicopters.com
Their website says it was spotted over Warrington today
A mere 4K.... yikes. As much as that does sound amazing. I think theres a similar one running out of Goodwood as we see it flying around Arundel etc most days.
My workmate sent his father, a Spitfire anorsk, up in one for his 90th birthday. Think it cost him about 3 grand for a 30 min or so flight and a nose around the workshop, which apparently he was more interested in.
@Greybeard, that's interesting, we saw what looked like a yellow sea king over Telford in Shropshire earlier today...
@Greybeard, thanks. I guess it was that one, by the time I’d got my act together it was beyond reading the reg.
Just had our second double Spitfire flyover of the morning. Looks like they're en route to Moray now.
As an aside an AC130J flew in from over the water this morning.
I was rather hoping this thread would be from the person who asked for some mushrooms to be identified before eating them...
UKIP Airforce Spitfire over Sidmouth 16.20hrs today.
Working outside this afternoon and heard then saw said Spitfire on way to Sidmouth today.
I saw a hurricane flying very, very low, banking near the A64 near Malton on Friday.
There’s four at Goodwood and another 6-8 at Lee on the Solent airport (former HMNAS Daedalus)