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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: cam2502 on 31 July 2012, 15:08:43
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I'm sitting on my couch, there's houses opposite and THIS, or something very similar, just flew over the rooftops of the house directly opposite me. I swear it couldn't have been more than a couple of hundred feet off the ground! What a bloody fright I got! The noise was unbelievable, but strangely I didn't hear anything until it took up my whole window! (http://i1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii625/Omegamanv6/e42392e7.jpg)
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Looking at the photo I've posted, the plane couldn't have been much higher than this shot. Never seen anything as huge so low. Is there any way to find out what it was and where it was heading?
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Probably borrowed by Nige for his holidays ;D ;D ;D
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Looking at the photo I've posted, the plane couldn't have been much higher than this shot. Never seen anything as huge so low. Is there any way to find out what it was and where it was heading?
Hercules :y
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Thanks tiger :y. Surely it can't be normal for it to be at that height though? I live nowhere near an airfield so not as if it was coming in to land.
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Turn volume up ...was it this one ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOQksvnNwmI&feature=related
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That's the bugger! Only wish I had seen it for longer, or better still managed to get a pic.
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Thanks tiger :y. Surely it can't be normal for it to be at that height though? I live nowhere near an airfield so not as if it was coming in to land.
Can be if they are on a low level navigation training flight.
Iirc, the normal lower limit is 500 feet but lets just say they can and do go quite a bit lower :-X :-X
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They were definatly lower than 500ft, I could see the pickle in the pilots sandwich ;D.
Hard to judge but I reckon they must've been at the VERY most 300 ft.
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Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft shall not be flown closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle or structure.
Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft flying over a congested area of a city town or settlement shall not fly below a height of 1,000 feet above the highest fixed obstacle within a horizontal radius of 600 metres of the aircraft.
An aircraft flying over a congested area of a city, town or settlement shall not fly below such height as would permit the aircraft to land clear of the congested area in the event of a power unit failure.
Exemptions exist for taking off and landing in accordance with normal aviation practice, display flying, etc.
They might have the "written permission of the CAA", of course. ;)
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Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft shall not be flown closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle or structure.
Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft flying over a congested area of a city town or settlement shall not fly below a height of 1,000 feet above the highest fixed obstacle within a horizontal radius of 600 metres of the aircraft.
An aircraft flying over a congested area of a city, town or settlement shall not fly below such height as would permit the aircraft to land clear of the congested area in the event of a power unit failure.
Exemptions exist for taking off and landing in accordance with normal aviation practice, display flying, etc.
They might have the "written permission of the CAA", of course. ;)
Well that would have had 99% of the airforce grounded in my day ;D ;D
Remember been laid sunbathing on top of a sanger during a exercise when a Victor tanker flew between 2 of the hangers at no more then 100 feet :o
Bloody show off's these jockeys ::) :D
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Well that would have had 99% of the airforce grounded in my day ;D ;D
Hence I think there might be a letter from the CAA somewhere saying something along the lines of "If you can't be good, FFS be careful". ;)
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Well that would have had 99% of the airforce grounded in my day ;D ;D
Hence I think there might be a letter from the CAA somewhere saying something along the lines of "If you can't be good, FFS be careful". ;)
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;D ;D ;D
Lightning pilot been carefull ;D ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUY0ut6gOxY&feature=player_embedded
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Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft shall not be flown closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle or structure.
Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft flying over a congested area of a city town or settlement shall not fly below a height of 1,000 feet above the highest fixed obstacle within a horizontal radius of 600 metres of the aircraft.
An aircraft flying over a congested area of a city, town or settlement shall not fly below such height as would permit the aircraft to land clear of the congested area in the event of a power unit failure.
Exemptions exist for taking off and landing in accordance with normal aviation practice, display flying, etc.
They might have the "written permission of the CAA", of course. ;)
dont the military have their own airspace and whoe betide anyone who strays into it...... :y
i do remeber a engineer who mounted a ally tower in the gates of an private american school on greenham common...well it must have been all of 15 mins and he was ordered down at gun point and they did try to bring a court case against him for invading miltary air space...never got to court as the tower did'nt fly and was only 9 ft tall...but it did show up on their radar :y
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Looking at the photo I've posted, the plane couldn't have been much higher than this shot. Never seen anything as huge so low. Is there any way to find out what it was and where it was heading?
Didn't you know that Cameron has decided to invade Scotland? We'll be sending up our tank when it's fixed. :-X
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Looking at the photo I've posted, the plane couldn't have been much higher than this shot. Never seen anything as huge so low. Is there any way to find out what it was and where it was heading?
Hercules :y
what ;D
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In the old days the English and Scottish armies used to fight by gathering their armies on top of the hills and at day break they would run down the hillside into the deep gorge below to fight. One morning at dawn there was a fog and the two sides decided to refrain from fighting that day.
Whilst the two armies were resting a voice, with a Scottish accent came from within the dense fog.
"Any one Scotsman can beat any 10 Englishmen".
With this, the english general sent down 10 of his soldiers. There was a hell of a fight and no one returned.
An hour later, the same voice was heard.
"Any one Scotsman can beat any 50 Englishman".
With this the English general sent down 50 of his soldiers. The same thing, a terrible fight ensured and again no one returned. An hour later the same voice.
"Any one Scotsman can beat any 100 Englishman".
Again, down went 100 of the best. No one returned.
An hour later...."Any one Scotsman can beat any 1,000 Englishman".
By this time, the English general had enough and was about to send down his elite soldiers, when he saw a lone Englishman crawling up the hill. He was battered to a pulp.
As he reached his general he said, "Sir !! Don't send any more troops down, it's a trap...THERE'S TWO OF THEM !!!"
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In the old days the English and Scottish armies used to fight by gathering their armies on top of the hills and at day break they would run down the hillside into the deep gorge below to fight. One morning at dawn there was a fog and the two sides decided to refrain from fighting that day.
Whilst the two armies were resting a voice, with a Scottish accent came from within the dense fog.
"Any one Scotsman can beat any 10 Englishmen".
With this, the english general sent down 10 of his soldiers. There was a hell of a fight and no one returned.
An hour later, the same voice was heard.
"Any one Scotsman can beat any 50 Englishman".
With this the English general sent down 50 of his soldiers. The same thing, a terrible fight ensured and again no one returned. An hour later the same voice.
"Any one Scotsman can beat any 100 Englishman".
Again, down went 100 of the best. No one returned.
An hour later...."Any one Scotsman can beat any 1,000 Englishman".
By this time, the English general had enough and was about to send down his elite soldiers, when he saw a lone Englishman crawling up the hill. He was battered to a pulp.
As he reached his general he said, "Sir !! Don't send any more troops down, it's a trap...THERE'S TWO OF THEM !!!"
;D ;D
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Looking at the photo I've posted, the plane couldn't have been much higher than this shot. Never seen anything as huge so low. Is there any way to find out what it was and where it was heading?
Didn't you know that Cameron has decided to invade Scotland? We'll be sending up our tank when it's fixed. :-X
;D ;D ;D..... Is that why there's thousands of bricklayers heading for hadrians wall? They are of course all polish!
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Further reports say the Hercules was as low as 60ft as it passed over the town yesterday!
60ft!!not much room for error there :-\
Apparently it flew over a children's farm/ play centre heading towards the bypass, then banked right. Folk are saying the wing was so close to the ground they thought it was gonna hit.