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Mr Larrington

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1475 on: 10 July, 2018, 01:33:03 pm »
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Nick H.

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1476 on: 10 July, 2018, 01:44:29 pm »
I saw quite a bit of the flypast from my 3rd floor window in Brixton. It  brought  some welcome tranquillity to the area. Nothing on the approaches to Heathrow or City and all the builders downed tools to watch.

TimC

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1477 on: 10 July, 2018, 01:59:55 pm »
There was a stop on movements at LHR from 1153-1214Z to allow for the flypast, but they're on the 9s today so not much traffic over central London anyway.

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1478 on: 10 July, 2018, 02:01:01 pm »
Slightly shortly



Moah soon. Needs a bit of post prod, but my exposure seems to be in the right place to have captured most detail.

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1479 on: 10 July, 2018, 02:50:15 pm »
A bit more shortly

https://photos.app.goo.gl/EyLyXza4PPNnGQUCA is a selection of postprodded images


https://photos.app.goo.gl/NpE9uXGPM1yXykpP9 is an album of all

As above, could do better but I'm not unhappy with them

Nick H.

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1480 on: 10 July, 2018, 02:58:19 pm »
Only three F35s. One of them gone u/s already?

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1481 on: 10 July, 2018, 03:15:10 pm »
A bit more shortly

https://photos.app.goo.gl/EyLyXza4PPNnGQUCA is a selection of postprodded images


https://photos.app.goo.gl/NpE9uXGPM1yXykpP9 is an album of all

As above, could do better but I'm not unhappy with them

 :thumbsup:
Watched it all from the rim of one of the Lea Valley reservoirs.
Wind was in the wrong direction to hear anything.
Aircraft were juuuuuuust about identifiable by their sillhouettes.
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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1482 on: 10 July, 2018, 03:31:04 pm »
Watched from St James Park. Wow. My 400mm lens was not wide enough for some of those planes. Amazing, and all done in 8 minutes.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/eMMVHNXMtTTAHFWQ8

TimC

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1483 on: 10 July, 2018, 05:11:34 pm »
Only three F35s. One of them gone u/s already?

I suspect they planned only two, as you always plan spares for such a big flypast. It may well be that all four were serviceable, so they'll have started four, got airborne with three leaving the fourth as an on-ground spare, and planning the third as an airborne spare with the option of it completing the flypast. As such a small element of the overall flypast, it's reasonably flexible. Whereas the 22 Typhoons in the '100' formation probably had to commit 50 or more miles out, it being too difficult to slot in a spare any later than that, the F35s could continue to much later before the formation is 'frozen'.

Years ago, as a young student RAF pilot, I flew in the 'whipper-in' for the '25' formation of Jet Provosts for the Queen's Silver Jubilee formation at RAF Finningley. We had two or three airborne spares, and more on the ground, so that the integrity of the '25' could be protected as well as possible. I was just an observer, so I wasn't privy to the full planning process, but I know that there was a point on the run-in where no replacements could be accommodated, and any unserviceabilities from that point would leave a gap.

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1484 on: 11 July, 2018, 10:34:38 am »
This is lifted from Another Place, but is pretty cool if you know which aircraft are stationed where - like it is easy to spot the Red Arrows leaving their Scampton base in Lincolnshire....

https://twitter.com/RAFBrizeNorton/status/1016734060704608257

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1485 on: 12 July, 2018, 11:36:54 am »
An Alpha Jet, a DC6, a P38 Lightning, a F4U-4 Corsair and a B25 Mitchell just flew over the house.

 :)

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1486 on: 12 July, 2018, 08:59:16 pm »
Two Ospreys just thundered over here - on their way to Blenheim?

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1487 on: 12 July, 2018, 09:08:43 pm »
Two Ospreys just thundered over here - on their way to Blenheim?
Seems plausible....

Adam

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1488 on: 15 July, 2018, 08:31:12 pm »
An Alpha Jet, a DC6, a P38 Lightning, a F4U-4 Corsair and a B25 Mitchell just flew over the house.

 :)

I had them go round twice, as they did a couple of flypasts at Goodwood whilst I was clearing vegetation from Route 88 near Chichester.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1489 on: 30 August, 2018, 02:56:17 am »
Tonight's lodgings are smack on the flight path into some airfield on the outskirts of Anchorage, and in among the usual crop of doctor-killers we just had a Rutan.  I think it was a Long-EZ, like unto one of these

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1490 on: 30 August, 2018, 08:46:47 am »
On the way to milldenhall inbetween Royston and Cambridge I saw a spitfire, probably a Griffin engined one and a hurricane  ,definitely a Merlin engined one.
While I waiting for the van at West row a Rockwell b1 blasted into the heavens with a roar  :)
the slower you go the more you see

PaulF

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1491 on: 30 August, 2018, 09:28:37 am »
An Osprey presumably inbound to Mildenhall


fuzzy

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1492 on: 12 September, 2018, 10:02:17 am »
We had 4 overflights of a B17 at what looked to be about 500 feet over the weekend.

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1493 on: 12 September, 2018, 09:51:05 pm »
An Alpha Jet, a DC6, a P38 Lightning, a F4U-4 Corsair and a B25 Mitchell just flew over the house.

 :)

Brilliant ! I really like corsairs and B25's

Fast Bill

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1494 on: 23 September, 2018, 09:07:51 am »
I’m with you on the B25. Really must watch Catch 22 again. As I recall the film was a bit weak but the B25’s excellent.
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Martin

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1495 on: 18 February, 2019, 10:50:02 pm »
no photo as the camera battery suffered from EDF but I copped the BOAC 747 arriving LHR; uber cool!


https://www.godsavethepoints.com/2019/02/18/unveiled-british-airways-boac-retro-livery-747-heathrow/

fab livery takes me back to the 70s, looking forward to the other retro liveries (2 previous BA and a BEA A319)

Mr Larrington

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1496 on: 19 February, 2019, 12:11:22 pm »
Flew in a few of them when they were current.  The improvement over the VC10s also used on the LHR<->Hong Kong route was night and day.
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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1497 on: 19 February, 2019, 01:05:11 pm »
The Tornado GR4s are doing a farewell tour of the UK this week if anyone fancies getting some final pictures of them in flight.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1498 on: 19 February, 2019, 01:21:28 pm »
nicked from
https://forum.keypublishing.com/forum/historic-aviation/3851671-toodaloo-tornado-times-of-the-final-flypast

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1499 on: 19 February, 2019, 02:41:50 pm »
I'll miss them screaming over my house on low level exercises.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.