typhoon at northolt

[cjs]

Two of them just took of at 13.00 heading East, bloody loud!!!

Edited by cjs on Friday 4th May 13:07

[topsparks]

Had one over my yard in Iver Heath today on finals for Northolt,unfortunately it was behaving its self!,loads of helicopter activity yesterday Sea king AEW,Chinooks and Commando Sea Kings

[psychoR1]

Typhoon juts flew over Herford heading SSE towards london.
One did the same yesterday at about the same time.
Both flying pretty low but in no hurry!

[Dr G]

topsparks said:

Had one over my yard in Iver Heath today on finals for Northolt,unfortunately it was behaving its self!,loads of helicopter activity yesterday Sea king AEW,Chinooks and Commando Sea Kings

Aaaaahaaaa, a neighbouring PHer! Just down the road in village

[topsparks]

My Builders Merchants is next door to the Esso garage,feel free to pop in and say hello!

[jonny142]

ph1l5 said:

Any information on movements today ?

There's a thread going on http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk under Worldwide Milair Monitoring ‹ Heads Up & OTT < Exercise Olympic Guardian (London) ,regarding movements (I think you have to sign up to see that bit though..free 'n' easy and always helpful people to ask questions )...

[Vanya]

Well if that was what all that was about earlier then they've just gone back the way they came, passed Ashford Middx.

A pleasant change to the usual traffic, hot rods of the skies, maybe, maybe not.

[aeropilot]

Vanya said:

Well if that was what all that was about earlier then they've just gone back the way they came, passed Ashford Middx.

More likely the two that departed Northolt 5 mins beforehand.....

[Vanya]

Indeed.

[aeropilot]

Vanya said:

Indeed.

They certainley weren't bothered about 'noise abatement' rules as they did a 180 deg climbing turn out, and accelerated fast away towards the direction of LHR.....

Pity the cloudbase was so low

Both due back at Northolt about now.

[Vanya]

I say... there they go again in a rather spiffingly tally-ho manner.

Fine fellows.

[aeropilot]

Indeed

Managed to just see one of them this time from my kitchen window as it accelerated away in a southerly direction towards Southall.... considering it's just taken off, it was moving pretty damn quickly already

I think I'll be writing a letter of complaint to the RAF.....




.....asking why we can't have a permanent Tiffie detachment at Northolt, as this is fun

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currently out in bucks doing laps over Chesham/Amersham

[Animal]

fadeaway said:

currently out in bucks doing laps over Chesham/Amersham

I wasn't the only one stood in the middle of my road watching! What a fantastic noise

[mattdaniels]

daz3210 said:

cjs said:

They're doing training manouvers from May 2nd, as low as 500ft!!! Excellent! RAF Northolt have installed new railings at the east end of the runway, they allow a very clear view of the airfield from West End Road.. They were worried the old wooden fence would get blown down by the thrust, so rumour has it.


http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/olympic-air-sec...

So you think they will let MoP's stand there do you?

Surely if the fence could blow down, its a danger to the public to stand there to watch.

From the other EuroFighter thread on here:

LiamB said:

I live half a mile away from Northolt and was walking and all of a sudden the police stopped pedestrians and cars.

I knew Eurofighters were coming to Northolt but I had no idea when. Saw some guys with hefty camera's next to me, so I whipped my phone out and got this;



Fair to say, I was slightly shocked.
Been flying round here with full afterburners. Sound blooming amazing.

[cjs]

mattdaniels said:

daz3210 said:

cjs said:

They're doing training manouvers from May 2nd, as low as 500ft!!! Excellent! RAF Northolt have installed new railings at the east end of the runway, they allow a very clear view of the airfield from West End Road.. They were worried the old wooden fence would get blown down by the thrust, so rumour has it.


http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/olympic-air-sec...

So you think they will let MoP's stand there do you?

Surely if the fence could blow down, its a danger to the public to stand there to watch.

From the other EuroFighter thread on here:

LiamB said:

I live half a mile away from Northolt and was walking and all of a sudden the police stopped pedestrians and cars.

I knew Eurofighters were coming to Northolt but I had no idea when. Saw some guys with hefty camera's next to me, so I whipped my phone out and got this;



Fair to say, I was slightly shocked.
Been flying round here with full afterburners. Sound blooming amazing.

The new yellow railings are plastic, so rumour has it, just incase they are hit by one of the fighters. They were up on Saturday night, full afterburners in the dark, awesome.

[baldy1926]

Proberly just as well that the new fence is plastic. When i was based there we had a dutch f27 go threw the hedge and a i think it was a spam p3 collected a large amount of the hedge in its under carriage

[Yertis]

If only there were some kind of v/stol aircraft more suited to such deployments. You'd have that such an aircraft would have been built by now, and that any kind of far-sighted government would have bought such a machine.

[eharding]

Yertis said:

If only there were some kind of v/stol aircraft more suited to such deployments. You'd have that such an aircraft would have been built by now, and that any kind of far-sighted government would have bought such a machine.

Eh? - the Harrier's forte was ground-attack. You reckon the plastic plods will be needing some close air support when making sure no-one infringes the 'Olympic Traffic Only' lanes on the A4?

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Yertis said:

If only there were some kind of v/stol aircraft more suited to such deployments. You'd have that such an aircraft would have been built by now, and that any kind of far-sighted government would have bought such a machine.

or made/found a slightly longer runway