TOT: Helicopters

Yes my one experience of those was years ago in a local park where the armed forces staged a show of their careers for young idiots, um potential recruits. Several people were seen to abseil down to the ground from one. The racket was very intense. I do hope the troops were ear defenders. Brian

Yes the other day during the D day stuff Red Arrows went about a quarter of a mile SE of me and shook the place for a few seconds coming away from a London Fly past some time later a large world war 2 bomber went over as well. I imagine near London these events must pos e a nightmare for controllers already busy with various airline traffic and the air taxi crowd from Battersea etc. Brian

Racket is the right word..

The SAS conducted an exercise on a factory down the road from us. We had a Chinnock hovering about 200 ft above the house at 3am illuminating the target area with a big search light.

Everything was shaking and stuff was walking along shelves so its just as well it woke us up to save them.

They didn't tell the factory workers either so the night shift were a little shocked. when men started to land on their roof.

If they do it again I might be tempted to bring it down.

Graham. presented the following explanation :

We often see Chinook's and other military helicopters here (8 miles east of Leeds), travelling north/south I assume going to/from Dishforth or Catterick. I assumed they were following the A1 or M1. We used to get a lot of very low flying fixed wing military, but that seems to have ceased.

As long as the accompanying Apache doesn't detect a 'missile lock' first. ;-)

Or did you mean you were going to march up there and 'insist'. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Black helicopters? Don't tell the conspiracy nuts

Yes was up at the Triplow rubbish tip last week just to the end of the Duxford runway was buzzed by a few Spits, is that one of the best sounds ever?

Well that and the Napier Deltic at full bore:)..

See them occasionally on the way from Valley to Stafford. Had a look at one at an MOD open day. They are MASSIVE. People had set up stalls with gazebos around the field. Then the Chinook landed. Then people started gathering up the remains of their stands and tried to put them back together.

Along with "Mind your head"

Living nearish to Salisbury Plain we get all current varieties of our armed forces helicopters skimming the trees on a daily basis and many through the night, The Chinnok sound is certainly distinctive but it doesn?t hold exclusive rights over downdraught mayhem.

I mentioned to the other half that we should have bought a few more of the lamps and attended Farnborough selling them at a big mark up to impoverished third world countries as an early warning system that was far cheaper than the defence industry could supply one at.

GH

Both examples of the best of British engineering. This is why it turns my stomach when a bunch of whining maggot remoaners have the bare faced cheek to suggest this, the greatest country in history, can't survive without support from those ignoble nations we gallantly and selflessly rescued from under the heel of the Nazi jackboot. Anyone who bad-mouths Britain in my company will be going home minus a few teeth - but on the plus side - with a far better understanding of geopolitical history.

giving brexiteers a boost there! We know lots of them are just thugs without your help.