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Friendly Fire ???
« on: 07 September 2012, 03:32:55 pm »
Went out in the cage today and as I was pulling out from the B1368 onto the A505 at Flint Cross an Apache helicoptor flew over at about 50ft off the ground and looked as if it was intening to land at the small airfield just outside Fowlmere. I think he was probably meant to land at the IWM at Duxford ( about 3 miles away ) as they have an air show this weekend. I bet the foccers at the Fowlmere airfield had a fright  :eek

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Re: Friendly Fire ???
« Reply #1 on: 07 September 2012, 05:26:58 pm »

There aren't many aircraft that have pulled off the 'menacing' look quite as convincingly as the Apache does. :lol

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Re: Friendly Fire ???
« Reply #2 on: 07 September 2012, 05:28:49 pm »
and A10 thunderbolt. epic plane!

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Re: Friendly Fire ???
« Reply #3 on: 07 September 2012, 06:05:43 pm »
and A10 thunderbolt. epic plane!

Years ago I was catching the train to Bristol from Portsmouth and around the Warminster area I saw a flight of four A10s flying along, then *behind* a hill before coming round the other side through a wide valley, presumably doing "nap of the earth" training.

Not a plane you'd want to be on the wrong side of...!

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Re: Friendly Fire ???
« Reply #4 on: 07 September 2012, 08:12:28 pm »
Several years ago I used to go to a landfill site in Wiltshire and the Apaches were always flying over, I was having my 45 minute break parked on an escarpment looking over the vast country side. Sat in the truck I could hear the noise of the rotors but could not see nothing then the pilot came up from below me, very scary as it had all his guns and missiles attached, I waved, he waved and then was gone. Fantastic.
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Re: Friendly Fire ???
« Reply #5 on: 07 September 2012, 08:48:39 pm »
went fishing with my son this afternoon ! the lake we fish is just down the road from duxford ! we were treated to a airshow while we fished !
 

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Re: Friendly Fire ???
« Reply #6 on: 07 September 2012, 10:21:52 pm »
Used to live in Duxford so got most of the display from the back garden. Can also remember, as a kid, seeing Concorde fly over in formation with the Red Arrows - an awesome sight. Once Concorde had landed there it was never going to leave as, in building the M11, the runway would never be long enough. 
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Re: Friendly Fire ???
« Reply #7 on: 07 September 2012, 10:56:23 pm »
It was probably Harry Hewitt trying to avoid being Taleban-Target #1.
 
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