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Papa Hotel
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9,445 posts
51 months
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Travelling westbound yesterday about 1215, between junctions 2 and 3, I saw a plane coming eastbound. Very slow, very low, it didn't look like a passenger jet coming in to Edinburgh airport. As it got closer I could see it was only a bloomin' Typhoon!
Not really sure what it was up to, I've never seen a RAF jet fly so slowly, I reckon it would only have been marginally faster than the eastbound traffic.
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cuprabob
2,490 posts
83 months
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Papa Hotel
Original Poster
9,445 posts
51 months
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cuprabob said: Well, from my observations, traffic regularly seems to do around the 85-ish mark along there, 40mph isn't really a huge difference. In any case, 126mph is very slow for that machine, it certainly wasn't in a hurry.
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RDM
1,292 posts
76 months
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Saw one at Perth airshow a few years ago and they can fly (relatively) slow and low. Pilot came in across the crowd, low and slow,
turned away and lit it up. Wow!. All the car alarms went off and Perth moved about 2 feet to the East.
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Raverbaby
731 posts
55 months
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Yeah, I saw it, I was in the esso station just at the roundabout along from Ingliston.
Heard it before I saw it, looked pretty inpressive!
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Papa Hotel
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9,445 posts
51 months
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Raverbaby said: Yeah, I saw it, I was in the esso station just at the roundabout along from Ingliston.
Heard it before I saw it, looked pretty inpressive! In stark contrast, I heard fook all, except a dull roar when it went by me. Maybe my diesel engine... I've seen them in full chat before, deeply impressive, but there was something very menacing about it going so slowly.
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KB_S1
5,938 posts
98 months
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Even doing about 150mph would look very slow when the perspective is considered.
No idea why it would be doing that though.
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