Typhoons in the air today?

[The Nur]

Both today and yesterday I have observed something I believe to have been a Eurofighter Typhoon flying above Swansea, heading North/Southish. I believe them to have been Typhoons purely because of the volume generated. They were at a good altitude but still making a hell of a noise and as far as I could see there was one on its own on both days. The normal RAF stuff we see over here normally fly in twos or threes, whether this means anything or not, I do not know.

Any way of knowing if I am right or wrong?

[b14]

Not unusual at all to have Typhoons flying - they are up and down during weekdays for training sorties.

[The Nur]

Thanks. Usually it is the Hawks that I see overhead here but they simply aren't as loud as the Typhoons, even when you consider that the Typhoon was a dot in the clouds and the Hawks fly low

Sounds like one is coming back now actually...

[killingjoker]

That is a hell of a plane. I remember seeing it at the Lowestoft Air Display (last year i think) and watching it approach, nose up and seeming to almost be standing still, just before the pilot gave it the beans and it shook the whole beach. Tremendous. I want to see it again somewhere this year.