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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Jigsaw » Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:28 pm

Towing a helicopter must be as difficult as towing a hot air balloon I would think
(although Homer Simpson did tow one last night).
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:29 pm

GRRRRRRRR X(

we only get a harrier or a merlin every year!
thats it!
only thing i saw today was an FRA/cobham falcon!
Fly fast jets and/or C130s over my house please, I'm bored!

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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Cluny » Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:03 pm

Spotted in a random field by the side of a random road in random Lincolnshire today ;)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:13 pm

What a very random posting!
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Thumper » Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:21 pm

Crikey what a sad state that's in!! Couldn't you have taken it home and looked after it better? :))
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:22 pm

Thumper wrote:Crikey what a sad state that's in!! Couldn't you have taken it home and looked after it better? :))



Looks like a two seater made up from lots of bits of other Hunters!
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Thumper » Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:25 pm

Someone was obviously inspired (and not very talented) after watching Flight of the Phoenix :))
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:58 pm

Thumper wrote:Someone was obviously inspired (and not very talented) after watching Flight of the Phoenix :))


It's a possibility!

But that's not a C119 Flying Boxcar though!!!!!
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Spitfire » Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:39 pm

Ususal boring day of 771 SAR Seaking ... Merlin ... 771 SAR Seaking .... Merlin ......occasionally the Cornwall Air Ambulance goes by, tail up, to rescue an emmet who doesn't know about tides and cliffs :p Image
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when suddenly ....a Pair of FRADU black Hawks ... N I C E ... jets over Cornwall - very rare :D :D :D B-) B-) B-)

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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:47 pm

Cluny wrote:Spotted in a random field by the side of a random road in random Lincolnshire today ;)
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i saw that on the way to coningsby (we detoured to woodhall spa!)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Hihonyr8811 » Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:43 pm

Xplumberlives wrote:
Thumper wrote:Crikey what a sad state that's in!! Couldn't you have taken it home and looked after it better? :))



Looks like a two seater made up from lots of bits of other Hunters!


Two infact, it was stored outside at Wickenby for years, I never knew what it was as all you could see from the road was the top bit of camo.
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:46 pm

Hihonyr8811 wrote:
Xplumberlives wrote:
Thumper wrote:Crikey what a sad state that's in!! Couldn't you have taken it home and looked after it better? :))



Looks like a two seater made up from lots of bits of other Hunters!


Two infact, it was stored outside at Wickenby for years, I never knew what it was as all you could see from the road was the top bit of camo.




So then Helen, WHERE IS IT and WHY IS IT THERE? ;)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:47 pm

its near the former RAF woodhall spa
and i would also like to know why its there!
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Hihonyr8811 » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:18 pm

It was bought by the landowner, he intends to do it up, but has no plans what to do with it after.
He wanted the location kept secret (hence the random field bit ;) :)) ) to stop people from nicking bits, and has CCTV set up around it and an electric fence.
But it's not excatly hidden =)) =))
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:36 pm

Heres my old one at North Luffenham before it was taken to Bentwaters.

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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:54 pm

just because we all have a local hunter or two dont we!
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:57 pm

Olicat wrote:just because we all have a local hunter or two dont we!




Oh don't you have your own? ;)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:00 pm

im sure you'll find one or two at bournemouth airport!
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Spitfire » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:14 pm

Not one in Cornwall that I can find .... but I was amazed at this.....

There's a virtual bloody squadron of them at Exeter Airport alone........

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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:18 pm

Where is XG194 listed then?
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Old Rigger » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:12 pm

XPL, according to the link in 2004 XG194 was at North Luffenham Camp:

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivor.php?id=313

or did you know this allready? ;)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:14 pm

Old Rigger wrote:XPL, according to the link in 2004 XG194 was at North Luffenham Camp:

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivor.php?id=313

or did you know this allready? ;)



Yes Mick, that's where I did the work on her, she is now at Bentwaters being returned to her BLACK ARROWS livery!
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Spitfire » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:28 pm

Old Rigger wrote:XPL, according to the link in 2004 XG194 was at North Luffenham Camp:

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/hunter/survivor.php?id=313

or did you know this allready? ;)


Yes of course he did ......

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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:29 pm

Is that you curry spoon?
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Old Rigger » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:33 pm

Ah so it was a rhetorical question :D just thought I'd ask anyway :ymblushing: ever trying to help ;)
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