Military helicopter identification?
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There's what 'I' think is an Apache Helicopter circling overhead, and has been a couple of times this week.
Very low and very close, but I have no camera.
It's got the 'bulb' bit above the rotors and certainly looks like what I think an Apache is, but I don't know any other smilar helicopters to confirm.
However, what on earth is an Apache (looks armed to the hilt!) flying over Lowestoft for?
Any ideas?
Very low and very close, but I have no camera.
It's got the 'bulb' bit above the rotors and certainly looks like what I think an Apache is, but I don't know any other smilar helicopters to confirm.
However, what on earth is an Apache (looks armed to the hilt!) flying over Lowestoft for?
Any ideas?
dirty boy said:
Looks just like that.
Just odd that it was circling above us for a couple of days running.
I did say to the boss "go out in the field and hold a calendar tube on your shoulder and point it at them"
It's amazing what the IR vision systems can capture - what you been up to?Just odd that it was circling above us for a couple of days running.
I did say to the boss "go out in the field and hold a calendar tube on your shoulder and point it at them"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJQcg4XI7dY
Eric Mc said:
One flew across Farnborough yesterday.
I'll see that, and raise you 2 flying over Fleet today 
Even one of my colleagues who doesn't like aircraft pointed them out to me, saying I there's an Apache out there!
You do have to wonder about the navigation skills of the pilots though - all the Apaches and Chinooks do when they overfly us at work, is fly along the M3 or the railway to Basingstoke
bleesh said:
You do have to wonder about the navigation skills of the pilots though - all the Apaches and Chinooks do when they overfly us at work, is fly along the M3 or the railway to Basingstoke
Old tech is the best - the enemy can't jam railway lines!Not far from Wattisham here so I see one or two of these quite often. Surprisngly noisy, not likely to sneak up on you.
Edited by Simpo Two on Wednesday 30th June 22:09
bleesh said:
Eric Mc said:
One flew across Farnborough yesterday.
I'll see that, and raise you 2 flying over Fleet today Even one of my colleagues who doesn't like aircraft pointed them out to me, saying I there's an Apache out there!
You do have to wonder about the navigation skills of the pilots though - all the Apaches and Chinooks do when they overfly us at work, is fly along the M3 or the railway to Basingstoke
Monday last week I was visting a client in Wallingford and a Benson based Merlin passed right over his rooftop in the town centre at an altitude of around 200 feet max. We could feel the downwash from the rotors in the garden. It was dangling an RAF pennant from the open side door so I think it was promoting Armed Forces Day the following weekend.
Eric Mc said:
bleesh said:
Eric Mc said:
One flew across Farnborough yesterday.
I'll see that, and raise you 2 flying over Fleet today Even one of my colleagues who doesn't like aircraft pointed them out to me, saying I there's an Apache out there!
You do have to wonder about the navigation skills of the pilots though - all the Apaches and Chinooks do when they overfly us at work, is fly along the M3 or the railway to Basingstoke
Monday last week I was visting a client in Wallingford and a Benson based Merlin passed right over his rooftop in the town centre at an altitude of around 200 feet max. We could feel the downwash from the rotors in the garden. It was dangling an RAF pennant from the open side door so I think it was promoting Armed Forces Day the following weekend.
It helps that I work at Wattisham
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