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That'll be the BBMF heading home then! :)

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Nope, they'd be heading north, north east if it was the BBMF, plus only one of these were in standard camoflague

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got the same at work myself, lately I've seen a chinook at something like 250m above ground....bit loud.
also seen quite a few Apache's Puma's, Lynx and Merlins flying about here
(Northampton)

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That'll be after they head north from here.. yep forgot to mention the chinooks, quite impressive when they're banking low over the village..

Problem is that when they're low you never have enough time to grab the camera

Here's some I posted in another thread in January
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...7t-chinook.jpg

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yesterday saw a B52 flying over my home.... scary sight I'll post the picture of it later on... its on my phone and I'm at work :(

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the b52 was at farnborough, so probably doing a few smaller shows before heading home

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OH WOW!!! First one I've ever seen in real life.. A Catalina just flew over from DUxford direction towards Fairford direction

:D :D :D

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I was in the park with my Nephew & Niece, and I saw an Apache Longbow fly overhead, made one hell of a racket.

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Just found out that it's the Catalina based at Duxford, it's on a Duxford>Culdrose with it coming back on the 29th, will see if perhaps I can get the video camera ready for the return :D

http://www.catalinabookings.org/events.asp

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So where is the piccy of it

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Hi all

can anyone identify this plane? It is one Amy Johnson worked on at Portsmouth Aviation in the 30's.

Bill

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Could be a Fokker?

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I've got a photo of it at Farnborough but it's not very good / cloudy sky - I'll post it up tomorrow.

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Looks like an Airspeed Courier, an AS5

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How's this for a picture of the AS5, one of the first inflight refueling experiments

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/07/8.jpg

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And in military colors

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/07/9.jpg

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Thanks Kymmy

you are a star.

Thanks Bill;)

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Ah! Those were the days when the attendant actually came out and refuelled your plane. None of the self service they have now. ;)

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It's just come over on the return journey (weird as it wasn;t due to leave Culdrose will 12:30 so either forced into an early departure slow or weather's moving in

Managed to grab the 720p little handycam thingy I've got and take some vid as it passed overhead (only about 15 secs) that's currently in the vimeo convert queue so will be 30+ minutes until it's ready, will post a link then

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http://www.vimeo.com/13729902

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Question for you lot..

Just had a small jet (circa late 40's <> 50's) fly over head..

Size was about the same as a provost, swept back wings, twin engine (under wing nacelles) and likely to be based/visiting Duxford as it came from that direction..

Any ideas??

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Just wondering if it was underwing engines and not tanks instead.. In that case it could have been a Hawker Hunter

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swept wing design eh any other things standing out on it or too far away to see it properly

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More like too fast overhead, 400mph at VFR level doesn;t give you a lot of time :)

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even if it's wrong this is worth the link for such a great pic of a truly elegant aircraft.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...anform_arp.jpg

:)

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hmm could be quite a few jets that are towards the discription.... my guess is that it could be a F-80 shooting star as the other guess is a ME262 but dont know if any of those are still in flying conditions

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just had a look at Duxford and some other sites and cant find any airshows with vintage jets on them for around this weekend.

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Duxford is used as a private field for those with vontage aircraft quite often.

I'd say that it definately wasn't a meteor/me262 (wings were more swept) and that it was more like the Hunter with the drop tanks

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Could you tell if the nacelles were fabbed into the wing surface or if they were on pylons?

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Pylons..

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There are the Supermarine Swift or Scimitar, which are similar to the Hunter, but I don't know if any are airworthy?

Could it have been American - e.g. an F86 Sabre?

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De Havilland aviation are operating a Hunter and a Gnat out of Bournemouth so if what you saw were ferry tanks Kymmy it could possibly have been one of those. The gnat is in red arrows colours though so I guess you would have mentioned if it was that.

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I wondered about whether it could have been a Gnat, but Kymmy seemed sure it was an older 'plane.

http://www.warbirdalley.com/articles...s/Gnat4wba.jpg

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definately not a gnat... The paintwork was a light color (blue or silver)..

Definately Hunter shape/size

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Hubby suggests an F86 Sabre as there is one based at Duxford.

Apparently it quite regularly displays at Old Waden. The evening Battle of Britain flight-show is this Saturday and not too far from you!

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If I had to choose 2 possibles then the Hunter and Sabre would win.. Will look out for it again in the future, thanX guys :)

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A couple of pics from my trip on the Air France A380:

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Cool - but how the hell did you get into the cockpit - or is that artistic licence with a zoom lens?? ;-)

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Being nice to the staff and asking. Obviously since 9/11 you can't go in during flight but once in Paris, they said 'be quick but you can go have a look up there.'
The pilots were great too. Very happy to talk to me.

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nice photos of the little critter matey so where are the shots of the interior

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Not a plane, but just watched a Sparrow Hawk take a House Sparrow from the shed wall beside the kitchen. Amazingly quick. Prior to this the sparrows were being bullied by a Song Thrush & were eating the ants from the gravel whilst carefully avoiding the Starlings further up the garden.

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Nice one - well done on that front!

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Emirates started their daily A380 service from Ringway today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ester-11148598

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And so have Air France..... They have now put the A380 that was doing the London-Paris trip on to a new route...... Paris to Tokyo.

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Some great pictures of the inside of an Emirates A380 here...

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OH WOW, some great shots there :tu:

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BBC

A UPS 747 has gone down just outside Dubai Airport - we were FaceBooked about it by some friends of ours who live in the Emirate Airways residences (the planes fly over their houses after take off), and saw it go down.

As most of the people who live there are aircrew or their families, you can imagine how they feel. As our friend said RIP.

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RIP.

Thankgoodness it didnt go down over a populated area.

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From reading foreverwar's post it seems that may have been a deliberate choice by the crew - as said, thoughts are with their friends & families ..

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800 metres from our friends home....

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Great day at Ringway today.

Saw Emirates A380 arrive & depart plus sat in Concorde G-BOAC...

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I managed to see these in the distance yesterday, getting ready for the Duxford "Battle of Britain" Air Show....

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/09/105.jpg

I am assuming that is what I saw as they were a way off in the distance, but flying in formation.

The Air show resumes tomorrow, but today there were a few problems getting to Duxford apparantly....

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home...sappointed.htm

Here is a list of aircraft on display

http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/upload/pdf..._31_August.pdf

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Some excellent cockpit video landings here including a space shuttle (with radio), aircraft carrier, concorde and more.

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Punky?? You forget something??

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Indeed and he had me all excited :)

But in the meantime try this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCvHzpaKOes

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Sorry, here you are

http://gizmodo.com/5635151/a-pilots+...+%28Gizmodo%29

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News is coming through of the RAF's Typhoon squadrons being grounded.. No more details yet

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More info just come in

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Not bad for a 9 hour old story:

OK it's The Sun - the UK's daily comic:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...F-Typhoon.html

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It's seems to be the 2 man aircraft (non-operational) which is effected and not the single seater (operational) aircrafts..

Pity the sun has jumped on the "Seat fault grounds every RAF" headlines :(

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I wonder what the NTSB made of this one back in 2008, anyone got a link to the report???

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7406041.stm

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Ahh, it's OK I've found it

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11416261

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Flapless???

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11431662




A variation on the Ekranoplan or is it a fully fledged plane?????

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11432319

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Possibly caused by ignition of lithium laptop batteries it was carrying:

http://www.whas11.com/news/FAA-repor...104603214.html

http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releas...m?newsId=11960

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I have worked in cargo aviation, and there is a list of banned items.

One of them made me laugh "pistachio nuts" as when they start to go manky they give of a gas that can explode. (Was mentioned on QI).

If the batteries are to blame then freights SOP need to be looked at to reduce the cargo holds temp.

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For those interested in early aviation a fantastic story set 100 years ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11547569

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Interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11654390

How regular are cargo flights and their routes? I assume you can't get a GPS signal without an external antennae but if their approach takes them over populated areas and a certain time it could be an easy way to cause mass casualties.

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Apparently East Midlands airports cargo terminal was cordoned off this morning, opened up and then cordoned off again earlier today according to local radio earlier

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-11654004

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-11654481

Re-examining a package that had been declared safe? Something weird has been going off!!

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Yeah I've been hearing eveything from it being a suspected bomb to it being a printer cartridge.
That is my local airport and I often see the UPS planes coming in.

Let's hope this reminds everyone not to reduce the security at airports.

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Looks like XH558 will be able to continue flying:

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/1...ul-Appeal.html

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The annoying thing is that that kept saying toner ink:rolleyes:.

Toner is a powder, NOT an ink.

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Some good pictures of the Quantas A380 that suffered the engine problem here...

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And now problems for Boeing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11728915

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Some fantastic harrier pics (link kindly given out on another forum)

http://fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/vi...p?f=16&t=23799

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Absolutely stunning - thanks Kymmy :)

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-12142963

Any pictures anyone??

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No links yet (or pictures/diagrams)



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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...r-on-film.html

Including some video

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110111/...tealth_fighter

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Why does the J10 their last fighter to go into production look like a typhoon and their new J20 stealth looks like a raptor :rolleyes:

Are they ever gonna produce anything without ripping off another countries hard work???

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Why go to the bother of spending billions on design when they can just use spies to get technology a few years old at a fraction of the cost?

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Because in the end they get it wrong and end up with an inferiour product as they don't have the initial testing..

May I remind you of Concordski in Paris ;)

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I always thought that imitation is flattery ;)

but yeah China's airpower is basically cloned from Russian, European and US manufactoring companies.

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Cost of a few crashes + dead pilots vs cost of design. I can see which way the Chinese government would go on that particular debate. :erm:

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I suppose the TU144 crash was different in that it was supposed to be a passanger carrier ;)

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They do it with everything.

Huwawei, their telecoms manufacturer is basically counterfeit Nortel kit.

Anyway, if you're into planes you've probably seen this:

even if you're not it's impressive

top 10 low pass flybys.

http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=19448*

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that guy in the 3rd place...omg I really wouldnt want to be there...imagine the pilot of that (think jaguar) just goes a that tiny bit lower you would feel your head meet the fuel tank :S

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Is anyone thinking about going to the 49th Paris International Air Show at Le Bourget this year?
I'd love to go and wondered if anyone had ever been before.

Flying visit from Afghanistan
 

Just had 3 of the twin blade army helicopters fly over.

looked like these.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/01/66.jpg

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More likely to be from Odiham.....

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Yep I once saw two of these fly over.

I dont know where you are but sometimes they come over here to pick up parts.

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We get Chinooks, Pumas and Apaches longbows coming over all the time..

[Merged in to the Plane spotters thread]

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They went to the new QE hospital. I could hear them hovering around for a couple of minutes, then 2 came back together followed by the third.

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did you enjoy the noise of the lovely chinook they make a racket and you can feel them passing along

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It was ok. would have been better if they did a bit of missile or gunshot fire though :)

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Go and live in Afghanistan and you can have your wish

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Ok.

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Does anyone have any idea where this scarey landing strip is located?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=601_1296083691

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Yep, it was on the Scariest airports program a few months ago..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toncont...tional_Airport

the hillside has since been removed

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Thanks for that... that's one airport I will happily avoid!

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Tornado crashedof the west coast of scotland, 2 ejected and taken to hospital

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...lands-12301802

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There is one in Nepal where one end is a 4000ft drop the other end is a mountian.

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you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing-Hillary_Airport by any chance Hom3r?

I would NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER go to that airport.

and Kymmy, you sure it was a crash, I think the gov just withdrew the funding for that tornado :(

glad that the pilots did get out of it and wonder what the cause is.

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http://gizmodo.com/5752983/this-is-w...se-to-a-bomber

Oops!

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you would've thought the '16 pilot would try to take off before the b1 or even just get the hell outta his way.

Think the '16 does handle well as it does stay on its wing after the take offs and I bet you that pilot has lost its wings or part of rank or his new nickname changed to wingtip.

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Thats the one, I'ld fly there.

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More Chinooks going back and forth followingthe east west line of the Chilterns just as it crosses the A6 north of Luton. Seen at least 4 in the last couple of days

Not long after that a Apache longbow went low over the village on a bearing of about 290

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I wonder when Heathrow will get like this:

Global Shield Minimum Interval Take Off (MITO) launch of B-52’s and K-135’s (1987)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=12f_1297204256