Scoob99

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Must be a massive exercise or the Iranians are on their way, one went over with a Land Rover hanging from it
Cheers
Colin

Scooby-kid

cool!!! Any pictures?

Scotty

mart360

its one of the biggest excersises ever on salisbury plain if i recall

was on the local news thurs-friday evening

Mart

PeteT

Saw a Chinook pick up and carry away a disabled Sea King once, those things are strong!!

J4CKO

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Are you in Vietnam ?

wakeboardar

should have use one shift that stupid whale

GrahamG

are they moving all the troop that are off to get BIN LARDAN??

Julz1983

I get them everyday, this is what I see from one side of our house

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...3/DSC01099.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...3/DSC01098.jpg

Quite used to them now apart from it being very windy if outside and very loud, 2 chinooks landed here on Thursday and I took our daughter out to see them, couldn't hear what she was saying and we were nearly blown away.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Are you in Barracks ?

Julz1983

Yep lol
Every morning and afternoon the house shakes with helicopters and chinooks, last summer one was hovering above the house ready to land behind the house and it lifted my parasol out the garden and over the fence, I was like Mary Poppins trying to get it back, so they do pee you off but it's just an everyday thing now. Even worse when everyone goes and comes back from Iraq etc as there is hundreds of people to be flown back which means alot of chinooks.

J4CKO

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Put 'Paint it Black' by the Rolling Stone's on the stereo and dig yourself a foxhole, tell the kids to keep their heads down cos the area is full of Charlie, perhaps go a bit mad and paint your face with the blood of a dead VC (or the bloke from the local takeaway) for camoflage.

Julz1983

LMAO class
Might try that next week hahaha

imprezarb5

seen loads over the last 2-3 days, flying in east and west directions over bedfordshire. mainly Chinooks , some with payload slung underneath. Also 4 Apaches in formation yesterday, and one really low today, too quick to get a photo. so low i could see the pilot. would trade in the Scooby for one of those, looked awesome in the flesh

Julz1983

Yeah they are great to look at, I get to see the pilots too lol
Need some strength when walking up to them, got a canny down force , it's strange how to be right underneath one when it's hovering is like a calm day you feel no winds from anywhere then as soon as you step out you are blowing all over the place, one of the most useful bits of kit in the forces. Would love to go in one, never had the chance but think it would be great.

imprezarb5

think the Apaches must belong to 16 Air Assualt Brigade. guess they are travelling between Colchester and Salisbury , with mid Beds right in their flight path. beats watching the Easyjet planes, when I lived in Luton. The Apache I saw today was really low, wheras the 4 in formation yesterday were at higher altitude. camera at the ready hoping for more of the same tomorrow. will post up any pics i can get

Julz1983

We were part of 16 Air Assault, we were at Waterbeach with 23 Air Assault in 2003, but then moved here, to be honest I never seen many at Waterbeach but there's loads here, we have the main Apache base here where all 6 Apache's are kept.

imprezarb5

http://www.army.mod.uk/16_air_asslt_...rick_eagle.htm

Julz1983

Yeah i reckon so


The Exercise takes place across England, with units operating from Wattisham, Stanford Training Area, Sculthorpe and then across to Salisbury Plain Training Area before moving on to operate in the North of England

I wonder if that means 'operate' as in be based North at certain camps, or 'operate' as in they are coming North to carry on what they have been doing South, oh well if they come here I'm not bothered, like I say when you get used to them you don't really notice the amount of noise each time they land.

Scoob99

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Bloody beautiful sight too see though mind you i did think the Land Rover was gonna come off the chains
Cheers
Colin

Julz1983

LOL, well it has happened before, my hubby was Iin Oman when Afghan all kicked off, they needed alot of equipment dropped in all the time, so the chinooks brought it all as they dont need to land and can just drop everything and pick things up, anyways, the chains hadn't been put on correctly so as the chinook was coming with the landrover to drop, the whole thing just flew off and landed in the middle of the desert smashed in to tiny pieces wedged in to the sand good and proper. Everyone ran that's for sure. They are amazing to watch espec when the pilots do their stunts

imprezarb5

Scoob 99 , guess you must live close to me. you anything to do with the RR day and Harvester meet on Feb 18th. Ive only had a Scoob since Oct last year , and am looking to attend my first meet. Did you see the Apaches as well as Chinooks today/yesterday. you got a newage or classic? ive got a WR Blue newage on a 03 plate

Scoob99

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I live in Flitwick, theirs a few of us around here I was walking the dog this morning over Flitwick Moor, when I heard them, but the best sight was the one with the Landie underneath
Cheers
Colin

Dougster

Other ones are Merlins.

Simon C

I'll keep my eyes open as I'm not far from luton.

I keep forgetting what my child hood was like, 12 miles from Shawbury / Tern Hill, 20 miles from Cosford and 4 miles from BOD Donnington and about 5 from GKN Sankey.

As you can imagine I used to see armour, planes and choppers all the time.

dsmith

Was very busy here at the end of the week.... here being under the helipcopter approach to Wattisham.

Childhood was spent under the flightpath to twinbases of Woodbridge & Bentwaters when they were crawling with USAF. I almost miss A10s !

bootsy

i see 2 Apaches on thursday morning near peterborough . i live near 2 USAF bases ( mildenhall and lakenheath ) and a10's were always flying over us .very mean looking plane. get alot of f15's these days

springbok

This puppy flew over Plymouth late last year.
I think they were coming off an exercise with HMS Ocean.
We see chinooks transporting the marines back to Bickley barracks off the ships.

Scoob99

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And to finish the answer to you question I have a Reddish Blue MY98 Classic which sometimes see the light of day when i get her out
Cheers
Colin

bluenosewrx

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Its the whole Brigade execising for their deployment to Afganistan,the apache's are from middle wallop where the pilot training school is.

I have just done a landing point commanders course where you rig all the different types of vehicles and then the chinnok comes and hovers about 4 feet above yuor head you then hook the kit on and give the thubs up, scary and loud as ****.

Got a couple of cracking pics here in iraq,taken from back door of Chinnok.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...x/CHINNOK2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rx/CHINNOK.jpg

Mac

messiah

I live up in the Lakes and the place was swarming with Tornado's etc last week.

Buggers fly so low that from one spot on my local golf course you can look down onto them as they fly underneath...