What's flying over your house

[Ace]

Flying Legends on at Leeds East but while in the garage heard the distinct rumble of Merlin's and just caught the Lancaster (poor quality phone image) 

 

[leccyflyer]

I'd expected to see the air full of Spitfires, Mustangs and Corsair whilst at the Pontefract Retro Event, but not a sausage and aooarently they didn't fly at all yesterday - I did see the Lancaster on the way home*

 

*I was on the way home, not the Lancaster.

[GrumpyGnome]

@leccyflyer only four planes didn't fly at Church Fenton Flying Legends yesterday, a Gladiator, Hellcat, 2 P51s.  Loads of Spitfires, a few Corsairs, couple of P51's definitely did their thing.  They seemed to on Saturday as well.

[leccyflyer]

That's very good to hear - I'd heard a rumour that flying was cancelled on the Saturday. Like I said, I'd hoped to see loads of waarbirds on their way there. but apart from a fleeting glimpse of the Lancaster at about 4pm on the way home, not a sausage.  A couple of my clubmates made the trip down from Scotland and I was a bit worried that they might have had a washout on the Saturday especially. Very pleased that you all got a good weekend out of the event.😎

[leccyflyer]

Not quite over my house but took a wee trip up the road to the former RAF Peterhead yesterday evening, as the Buchan Aero Club had organised a flypast by the BBMF to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the active combat aeroplanes at the airfield, since they were in the area for a display as part of Peterhead Scottish Week, along with the Red Arrows. I've had an interest in the Mustangs (65 & 19 Squadrons) which operated from RAF Peterhead in support of the Banff and Dallachy Strike Wings and there was the promise of a fish supper, so how could I refuse?

 

In the event the BBMF was represented by the Lancaster, but in lieu of a Spitfire or Hurricane, she was escorted by a Eurofighter Typhoon from RAF Lossiemouth. They displayed over Peterhead, which we could see in the distance as did the Red Arrows. The highlight though was that as this wasn't a dsiplay at the airfield as such, there was no defined crowd line, so the Lancaster passed overhead, quite low and you really got a great view - she did multiple circuits and, whilst the Lancaster was displaying over Peterhead the Typhoon loitered with intent around where we were on the airfield.

 

[leccyflyer]

Lots of air activity this evening on ADS-B, can hear the Typhoons going about their business - chasing drones over the Highlands - plus a whole slew of L-159 Albatros and Dassault Falcons acting as Agressors off the East Coast - tankers doing racecourse circuits and the air full of military aircraft. There's a big exercise on this week.

[GrumpyGnome]

So, this morning, there was a Cessna (not exciting), an autogyro (pic below), and some sort of Rutan that I coildn't photogtaph - a noisy beast!

 

 

That pic is a little like 'spot the ball!

 

 

[David P Williams]

This pair seem to have been circulating round the local South Shropshire/East Powys valleys this morning. I didn’t get to the camera fast enough for their first pass which was MUCH lower, barely above rooftop height, but managed to catch them on their second pass.

 

[David P Williams]

I was surprised that these were RN Merlins. We get a lot of RAF and USAF stuff up the valley, but Navy stuff is unusual. Just found out that it was for the funeral a few villages away of a local 20 year old who was in the RN stationed at Yeovilton and was killed in a car crash down there in November