Osprey over Thanet.

[gtidriver]

As per the title,Wednesday late afternoon an Osprey flew quite low following the Thanet way from Monkton, thats where i first saw it,till it banked off to go out to sea around Cliffsend area, anyone else see this?? it was nice to see and my lad was very excited as he has the lego version

[Brigand]

Didn't see that one, but I have seen the odd one flying East-West near Ashford, so I assume they've either been hopping over the channel or on some kind of training run in the Kent area. I'd never seen one flying until the other year, they do have a distinctive sound don't they!

[muckymotor]

My parents spotted a pair of them flying near Coningsby last week.

[markmullen]

They were over York last week. Amazing noise.

[Simpo Two]

I saw one near Ely on 13 June.

[Monkey boy 1]

Regularly seen them around the Snetterton area. Mind you it isn't too far from the STANTA training ground.

[Willy Nilly]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&a...

Might be feeding their young

[sherman]

Willy Nilly said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&a...

Might be feeding their young

[kurt535]

I wonder how happy you would be given posting on one of these bad boys.....

[bakerstreet]

kurt535 said:

I wonder how happy you would be given posting on one of these bad boys.....

Fairly unhappy in the early stages I'd imagine!

Do any of our forces own/run these Ospreys? I thought its was just the USN/Seals who used them. Were the ones seen on this thread from a US Airbase over here?

There are some good documentaries on YouTube on the Ospreys. I got half way through one and got distracted by the 6 month filling his nappy

[DMN]

The USAAF operates about six for the role of rescuing down pilots and such like. The rest are all Navy/Marines.

We should be looking at getting a small fleet of them to use in the carrier onboard delivery role for the Navy's new carriers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_onboard_deli...

[markmullen]

There was one over York last night again.

They make the most amazing noise.

[paul_y3k]

theres a couple heading to Fairford for RIAT too

[onyx39]

Their based at Mildenhall I believe

[Mojocvh]

markmullen said:

There was one over York last night again.

They make the most amazing noise.

Highly tactical then..

[minerva]

Osprey have been subject of some pretty huge controversy and, although this is heresay, have been very expensive to develop. They also make an unbelievable noise, louder even than a chinook.

[kurt535]

i see them quite regularly when I'm up around east anglia. had one abeam of me in my little cessana two weekends ago and it looked like it was about to fly off in two directions at once. can only think the plane is reserved for jarheads who have come up through the USMC ranks and the military has to let them fly something....

[ecsrobin]

DMN said:

The USAAF operates about six for the role of rescuing down pilots and such like. The rest are all Navy/Marines.

We should be looking at getting a small fleet of them to use in the carrier onboard delivery role for the Navy's new carriers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_onboard_deli...

Whilst deployed at a US Navy airbase I got to know the osprey engineers, they certainly tried to avoid getting onboard the aircraft for flights, the safety record is not great.

[maffski]

sherman said:

Willy Nilly said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&a...

Might be feeding their young

Well, It might be.

Would have worked better if I'd been able to find one buddy refuelling, and OT but every time I see this thread title I think it should be a Half Man Half Biscuit album.