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Paulus
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 May 2012 : 15:03:44
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| You beat me to it, I was just about to resurrect the thread saying I'd seen a Typhoon over Ware |
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steve
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 May 2012 : 20:02:38
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| Typhoons have been overhead for the last three days. I saw two on Thursday, two on Friday and one today. I dare say we'll see more over the coming weeks. |
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cchallis
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United Kingdom
347 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2012 : 20:18:56
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| well this morning the goodyear blimp was over the town |
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Andy B
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New Zealand
3159 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2012 : 03:15:03
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| The typhoons could be part of the Olympic security tests? |
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mb1
Advanced Member
    
United Kingdom
2139 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2012 : 07:32:01
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| THey'll speed down the Lea valley at 100ft to evade radar, before bombing the terrorists!! |
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skippy
Advanced Member
    
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Posted - 07 May 2012 : 11:18:41
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| Do you think they'd do us a favour and slip one on Fletchers? |
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Moulder
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 May 2012 : 11:53:00
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quote: Originally posted by skippy
Do you think they'd do us a favour and slip one on Fletchers?
..... or Hertford.  |
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steve
Moderator
    
United Kingdom
1350 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2012 : 11:01:43
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| And more today |
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ian.ball
WoLFer & Moderator
    

United Kingdom
2786 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2012 : 12:36:25
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Are we talking the modern, eurofighter or the old WW2 planes?
Incidentally a week or so back I saw an awacs jumbo jet flying low north over Ware with a two fighter escort - not seen that before. |
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RichardH
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United Kingdom
381 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2012 : 15:27:43
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| Nigel saw that too, Ian - they were Typhoons, apparently. I've seen a pair of typhoons fly over recently, too. |
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steve
Moderator
    
United Kingdom
1350 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2012 : 16:54:17
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| The Eurofighters/Typhoons have been back and forth quite a lot today. Seen five so far during the morning and afternoon. |
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JGM
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Posted - 08 May 2012 : 18:31:24
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| Ian, I saw that as well and it was followed a few minutes later by 4 fighters in a diamond formation. I was quite surprised. |
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Alec
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 May 2012 : 21:42:40
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A couple of weeks ago it was a pair of Typhoons escorting an AWACS plane, followed shortly after by a pair of Tornados escorting a slightly smaller large plane (my descriptions). All around 17:45 and an impressive, relatively low-level flypast.
A quick google the next day found [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134801/RAF-jets-soar-Parliament-politicians-pay-tribute-servicemen-involved-campaign-topple-Gaddafi.html]this from the Daily Mail[/url] - it was a Parliament flypast paying tribute to servicemen involved in the campaign to topple Gaddafi.
Incidentally, I gather there was another flypast over Ware earlier the same day, no idea what, but of older (WW2) aircraft. Perhaps that was the diamond formation mentioned? |
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ware person
Average Member
  
United Kingdom
230 Posts |
Posted - 19 May 2012 : 12:51:36
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| Just seen a large aircraft Accompanied by several smaller ones on their way home after flying over Windsor for the Queens Jubilee. |
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Paulus
Junior Member
 
United Kingdom
65 Posts |
Posted - 19 May 2012 : 13:37:22
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Lancaster and Spitfires from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
Here's a couple of not very good at all pictures of them as they flew by- just that little bit too far away in the murk!
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cwhit
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Posted - 24 May 2012 : 13:53:14
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I really don't see the fascination at gawping at a lump of defunct gravity defying WWII machinery.
You can't use it to go on holiday 'Hello Berlin Airport I'm on holiday, and I just want to land my Spitfire on the main runway OK?'
And we stopped flying over Dresden 70 years ago.
Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be and I say we should scrap the lot, melt them down and convert the metal into something useful like tiny QE II Jubilee souvenir dishes, you know the type - the ones that could hold a couple of pinches of salt.
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skippy
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Posted - 24 May 2012 : 17:49:40
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| And because of that "lump of defunct gravity defying WWII machinery", you have the freedom of speach to post stupid comments like that |
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Craig
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 May 2012 : 18:03:45
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quote: Originally posted by skippy
And because of that "lump of defunct gravity defying WWII machinery", you have the freedom of speach to post stupid comments like that
'LIKE' :) |
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