Heard over Birmingham..

[Vocal Minority]

Sitting in the barbers in the middle of Brum today, around 1 o clock I suppose, when I hear a low, single engine aeroplane. It sounded like it could have been a Merlin, it was certainly a very large and powerful sounding engine and the character of the exhaust note was definitely 'vintage' rather than modern. I couldn't rush outside to look for obvious reasons...

...did anyone in Birmingham see anything?

[TheEnd]

I saw and heard it, didn't look anything too fancy though.

I heard the noise and looked up, but it looked like a smallish cargo plane of some description, high mounted wings, light colour if not white.
Not sure if it was single engine or twin as it was just a quick glance which was almost side on.

[Vocal Minority]

Ah well, worth an ask!

[towser44]

Looking on the playback on flightradar, this went right over Birmingham City Centre at bang on 1pm at low altitude

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28132040@N07/1588764...

[towser44]

http://www.flightradar24.com/2015-05-08/12:51/12x/...

[TheEnd]

That could have been it I guess, I did think it was something a bit bigger, but it would match the piston engine sound which made me look for it in the first place.

[TheEnd]

The BBMF Dakota did a flyby at the Jaguar factory today as I was driving past.