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Bloody Nora, just done a couple of fly bys over the house! Thought it was the washing machine kicking off to start with 😆
Your washing machine is a helicopter too?
I had a pair of Apache's earlier this afternoon. They're quite loud too.
Just loud when she fires up into spin mode 😀
Should that not be [b]N[/b]ora [b]B[/b]loody ? (November Bravo)
Chinook are bloody fast with the taps wide open.
I love the noise chinooks make, there is nothing else quite like it 😀
Wokka wokka....
they are noisy, we see them over Portsmouth Dockyard quite a bit...
my commute to work will be in one on Tuesday. just like hopping onto a bus really- just less comfy
Bell Huey.. best helicopter noise. Ever.
Big hillside behind the house and as he turned in pretty hard to fly back over it reall was giving it some woka woka 😯
Bless you! 😆
a joke apparently much heard at RAF Odiham
And another!! Where's the invasion??
They fly over here quite often, bloody racket.
One went over me a couple of days ago. I think it was a Chinook, big dual-rotor job anyway.
Not the sort of thing you expect to see over Accrington ASDA car park.
I raise you an Apache... yesterday.
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and a Leopard patterned thing...
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a Leopard patterned thing
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a zebra patterned thing (sea king is it not?)
Looks like a Sea King in artic cammo.
It is a Westland Commando, a marine version of the Sea King, very similar but with a few options less
One just flew over our house in south Manchester, then turned round and flew over again.
Wonder what's going on
Wonder what's going on
You will find out in 10, 9, 8 - you are not still sitting in front of the computer are you?
In Belper, saw a chinook fly North up the valley and then back again about an hour later, maybe doing some uplifts in the peaks...allso saw Apaches go over the office in Derby today and yesterday, suppose there is a war on
@rt
Was that apache headed south yesterday an the sea kings north on saturday?
Looks like a Sea King in [i][b]artic[/b][/i] cammo.
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😆
I was wondering what was going on with the helicopters over the mendips yesterday at mid day. Couple of passenger/VIP ones and an Apache.
Yup, in belper too!!
Pah !!
Today I have seen/been on the following choppers.......
x chinooks
x merlins
x lynx
x seakings
x apache
The joys of currently working on the helicopter flight line out in afghanistan !!
x is number edited out for security reasons !!!
Are you in Fort William wrightyson? 2 flew over there as we were coming out of Nevis Range a few hours ago.
TS
I love the Chinook what an amazing bit of kit. My (not yet) 3 year old can tell one from its noise over other helis.
Used to live on the flight path to a now closed large us air base during first Iraq war. Saw some amazing aircraft during that. It was also.an alert base. Nothing like the noise of phantoms tearing up.the air in.the small hours of the morning.
Like a big flying bus. The only real difference is you always get a seat but the rides worse.
Still, woka woka always makes me smile. 🙂
All I get to see are the Sea Kind thingumbobs the Coastguard use, the red and white ones..
Bit dull that for you lot.
Once upon a time...
Ok, it was summer 2005, waiting for the start gate to open for Bicester Regionals, I was sat in a thermal maintaining height with 50+ other gliders. I nearly shat myself at the sound of a chinook coming from behind me as he tore through the middle of the thermal. Gliders went everywhere. I was literally shaking.
Quite cool thinking back though!
Wrighty, I'm a few miles away and the (a) Chinook has been flying over our village regularly - including tonight. Weirdly the noise was drowned out by a low flying twin prop. Last year we had an apocalypse now re-enactment with lots of Apaches, Chinooks and other copters.
Renton, nice redaction, the MoD will be proud.
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Ah - the mighty 2nd Motor Transport Squadron hauling rubber dog turds up the A1.
hey cougar nothing would surprise me in Accrington...
Talking of military type stuff my fave was in Hull, where the TA/army whatever drove round the streets in an Alvis Saracen (armoured personel carrier). Hull's not that bad!
Crell,
your welcome.
everyone knows what cabs are out here, just didnt want to give the numbers away
Headed back north now on the same flightpath just west of Brizzle.
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they sound loud going over but you don't realise quite how loud until one lands nearby and they just get louder and louder
Redthunder that stripy helecopter is a Seaking MK 4 used by The Fleet Air Arm 845 and 846 Squadron and it does have artic cammo and no I'm not a spotter I used to work on them.
Arctic FFS
Westland Commando, a marine version of the Sea King
I would have thought the [b]Sea[/b] bit implied [b]Marine[/b]
Also hope that's not the A1 as everyone is on the wrong side.
I would have thought the Sea bit implied Marine
No, the Sea King is full of radar/sonar stuff depending which version and limited passenger capability, the Commando is more basic stripped out version so that you can fill it with more warm pink bodies. Former frequent flyer on both types.
Get 2 Apaches followed by 2 Chinooks fly over late(ish) at night a couple of times a month round here in sleepy ol' Cheshire