F 14's flying low

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  • mrushton
    mrushton Posts: 5,182
    Holidayed in Tuscon some years back and that's where they were based and they often flw over the city on final approach. Ugly plane but designed for that ground-attack role so form followed function. Always wanted to see that gun fire (but not from the receiving end!)
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  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    Splottboy wrote:
    Why the hell it flew in broad daylight during lunch time, God only knows!

    probably because it was something completely ordinary......even the yanks aren't that daft...
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Better if they were Sukhoi SU30 Flankers - one of the most impressive aircraft display I've seen - plenty of youtube clips - standing on it's fin and flipping backwards - one of the few I'll stop and look at having been in the industry a few years and my office overlooks the Farnborough Airshow. I've seen the Typhoon display countless times too - watching them give it full afterburners on take off and set off all the car alarms in the car park!
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  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    living out here is ok for aircraft spotters...

    We regularly get lots of stuff messing about in the bay - anything from Hawks, through to Harriers, Tornados, Typhoons and even a couple of F-15s playing tag a couple of weeks ago - like watching a flying display, it was. I've seen a lot of display aircraft over the years - Russian, US, UK, European - but nothing has ever come close to the display put on by the Lightning F6 I saw at Greenham as a kid.....

    Still waiting to see a TR-3B out there, but I haven't been lucky enough yet.....
  • tonyw43
    tonyw43 Posts: 249
    Gav888 wrote:
    Shame they dont have any A10's about, still love those :D

    Used to see these 'dogfighting' when I was fishing at Hury reservoir in teesdale a fair few years back. Fantastic plane the Warthog
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  • Gav888
    Gav888 Posts: 946
    Im getting really jealous now....
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  • timb64
    timb64 Posts: 248
    Gav888 wrote:
    Shame they dont have any A10's about, still love those :D

    And the Phantoms?
  • Steveorow
    Steveorow Posts: 162
    Maybe one of the Royal Navy boys was given a F22 Raptor to have a test run it before Britain goes and blows upteen gazillion on its sister jircraft the joint strike fighter for our much needed aircraft carriers to defend our massive empire .
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    Steveorow wrote:
    Maybe one of the Royal Navy boys was given a F22 Raptor to have a test run it before Britain goes and blows upteen gazillion on its sister jircraft the joint strike fighter for our much needed aircraft carriers to defend our massive empire .

    I know that's only speculation, but what would be the point of buying the JSF and then test-flying a completely different aircraft..??
  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    softlad wrote:
    Steveorow wrote:
    Maybe one of the Royal Navy boys was given a F22 Raptor to have a test run it before Britain goes and blows upteen gazillion on its sister jircraft the joint strike fighter for our much needed aircraft carriers to defend our massive empire .

    I know that's only speculation, but what would be the point of buying the JSF and then test-flying a completely different aircraft..??
    Wikipedia tells me that US Federal Law has banned export sales of the F-22
  • geoff_ss
    geoff_ss Posts: 1,201
    Splottboy wrote:
    Two F14's just flew over and parallel to our local cycle track! Feel sorry for any riders as they were only bout 150ft up. Noise was deafening.

    Recall two occasions when camping, in South and North Wales where pilots have saw our orange tents, and made a "B" line for them. F 111 in the South, Tornado North.

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    I'd be very surprised if they were as low as 150 feet. Even an aeroplane at 1000 feet can seem very low. We used to release at 1000 feet AGL when being winch launched in a glider and they don't seem high from the ground.

    Now these are low. This is from a model aeroplane forum I haunt rather more frequently than here:

    http://www.rcmf.co.uk/4um/index.php/topic,57279.0.html

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  • mitchgixer6
    mitchgixer6 Posts: 729
    I saw a UFO once. I wasn't on my bike though, but I had been smoking my Mum's herbs. Honest! :shock:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Talk to me Goose.....
  • MP 2484
    MP 2484 Posts: 10
    HI guys,

    I'm afraid they would deff be F15s from Lakenheath. Thats the only thing with twin fins flying around in this country at the mo.

    Right time to take my enthusiast hat off now 8)

    Cheers Mike
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,822
    reddragon, I saw it again tonight, and I'm pretty sure it's the other one that you mentioned, not the Airbus. Anyhoo....
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    reddragon, I saw it again tonight, and I'm pretty sure it's the other one that you mentioned, not the Airbus. Anyhoo....

    The Beluga? That's an Airbus :wink:

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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,822
    Yeah I'm pretty sure it's that one, and not the A380, although as you say they do make the wings in Broughton. Do they fly them to Toulouse in the Beluga or what???
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Most of the Airbus wings are flown to Toulouse, but the A380 wings won't fit in the Beluga, so they are taken by Barge to France.
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  • stephenite
    stephenite Posts: 23
    So if wasnt this, and wasnt that. A UFO then. Are trying to say u woz buzzed by extra-terrestials?!
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    I just spent 5 days at Thetford Center Parcs, F-15's (Ithink) buzzing the place all the time...
    The loudest I ever heard was a Harrier doing it's display at Brands Hatch, so loud, it literally stopped you dead in your tracks!
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  • emjayjay
    emjayjay Posts: 39
    sorry to burst your bubbles folks, it might well have been to do with the Southport Airshow!

    emjayjay
  • nwallace
    nwallace Posts: 1,465
    We occasionally get full armed Tornadoes taking off from Leuchars and flying down the Tay.
    Apparently in response to the Russians playing games.

    A few days after the Airshow about 0530 something went down the Tay very fast, by the time I got to my window I could see the afterburners were on and it was out about Arbroath but not all that high.

    Any idea what it may have been

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  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Hey Geoff SS: from my front window I can see a mountain - hill? It's at 1,200 ft. These planes were AT LEAST less than 1/2 this height, maybe much lower, I kid you not.
    The cycles track is only about 200mts away, as the F15 flies!!!

    They weren't screaming fast, but fast enuff. Okay, maybe not 150ft, but not far off.

    Some came over a few years ago, screaming fast. but not so low.
    The missus was on nights, and ran downstairs thinking I was doing Turbo training in the lounge! ( Yes, my old Turbo was THAT loud..) New one is even louder, so I'm banned to the back room now.
  • rally200
    rally200 Posts: 646
    A B-17 flew over my house on Saturday, and I'm pretty sure they're not in service (not even in Iran)

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