Anyone see the Typhoon flying alongside the M8 yesterday?

[Papa Hotel]

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.

[cuprabob]

Traffic must have been moving much faster than it does in the morning as the minimum speed for a Typhoon is 203kph (126 mph). Pretty slow though and it must have been quite a sight :-)

http://www.fighter-planes.com/info/eurofighter_ef2...

[Papa Hotel]

cuprabob said:

Traffic must have been moving much faster than it does in the morning as the minimum speed for a Typhoon is 203kph (126 mph).

http://www.fighter-planes.com/info/eurofighter_ef2...

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.

[RDM]

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.

[Raverbaby]

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!

[Papa Hotel]

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.

[KB_S1]

Even doing about 150mph would look very slow when the perspective is considered.

No idea why it would be doing that though.