Random Apache Helicopter

[muppetdave]

Coming back home on the train just past Witham this afternoon (approximately 16:00) I saw an Apache hovering what seemed like 50 feet above farmland (bit of a job to see exactly due to a hill). It seemed very bizarre as I could see it stationery for some time.

Just wondered if anyone might have seen it or known what it was about?

[bluesatin]

33 mph in a 30 limit!

[muppetdave]

lol

[JVaughan]

common occurance around me ... has somethign to do with Middle wallop

[7 Sevens]

They are all around the Colchester area as the regiment is based there, have been for about a year now.

[Jasandjules]

Yep, getting a few fly over here lately.

[tigger1]

MuppetDave...I wish to bring to your attention that this is not at all, nor even close to being, a random event.

Sorry.

[Neil_H]

Battle of Britain Part 2 - RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!1111

We are being invaded by the <checks todays news> erm.....Russians.














Not really.

[eccles]

It could well have been on a post depth servicing test flight. They tend to just find a field and hovver whilst checking out the systems and it may well have been targetting the train....

[_Mechanic]

I see them almost every day, they fly along the valley i work in just outside of Colchester..

[WestYorkie]

eccles said:

It could well have been on a post depth servicing test flight. They tend to just find a field and hovver whilst checking out the systems and it may well have been targetting the train....

My Brother has shooting permission on a farmers land in North Yorkshire for general pest control and also to keep the Local Deer population in check.

This land includes a Wood that's on a slope.

One day my Brother is walking up the hill at the edge of the Wood with his rifle slung over his shoulder and the dogs at his side. The Dogs came alert just as my brother looks up the hill to see an Apache rising over over the crest of the hill then hover as it is face onto him and the automatic gun pointing straight at him.

He said it stopped there for a few seconds that seemed like hours as his sphincter twitched then banked away to the west.

He reliably informs me that you don't want to be in those sights .

[Simpo Two]

They were playing about in Norfolk yesterday too. Wonder if the UN is planning to rattle some cages over the Russia/Georgia thing? (not much we could do to stop it anyway; no point in picking a fight with someone 50x bigger than you)

[Shaolin]

Was he on his horse?

[whitechief]

WestYorkie said:

One day my Brother is walking up the hill at the edge of the Wood with his rifle slung over his shoulder and the dogs at his side. The Dogs came alert just as my brother looks up the hill to see an Apache rising over over the crest of the hill then hover as it is face onto him and the automatic gun pointing straight at him.

He said it stopped there for a few seconds that seemed like hours as his sphincter twitched then banked away to the west.

He reliably informs me that you don't want to be in those sights .

I live just outside Colchester so it is a very usual sight to see these machines, having 16 Air Assault in the Garrison.

I was shooting wood pigeon 2 weeks ago, from a hide, when in my peripheral vision I saw something and aimed, which turned out to be an Apache at very low level. Sphincter tightening to say the least.