RAF Globemaster

[claret09]

There is (or sadly was) nothing like the awesome sound of the Vulcan. LOUD!!

Picture taken standing in my horses’ field. Horses completely unbothered as ever, but we get a lot of low flying forces aircraft so they are used to them..

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But a hot air balloon - proper panic stations, hate the bleddy things with a vengeance .

i have to say that is far higher than the globemaster was - it felt like i was level with the cockpit. it really was only just skimming the trees

 

[claret09]

I don't have a link as such but if you get the Flightradar24 App on your phone then select your area and playback you can clearly see it come over and the altitude is around 300ft!

i know it was just over the top of the trees - we didn't even see it coming. heard the noise and then it loomed up just above the large oak trees. no way we could have seen it coming

 

[conniegirl]

We used to live between RAF valley and what used to be to be RAF sealand, . We were also on the best/lowest flying corridor between a very popular diving quarry and the nearest decompression chamber.
We had helicopters and jets so low tiles came off the house from the down draft. Horses were absolutely unbothered by any of it.

We also had one incident where American Jets went supersonic and bit too close to shore and blew out our windows!

 

[poiuytrewq]

We had one on Saturday evening coming over the house repeatedly. It was so low that its lights shone across the soalr panels on our roof (we were sat outside) I think it was doing bump circuits or something when the are practising landing and taking off.

I also rode two hunters for a while the winter before last who's hacking loop went alongside the runway. The horses didn't care but they were literally taking off and landing along side us. I was a nervous wreck

 

[CorvusCorax]

We used to live between RAF valley and what used to be to be RAF sealand, . We were also on the best/lowest flying corridor between a very popular diving quarry and the nearest decompression chamber.
We had helicopters and jets so low tiles came off the house from the down draft. Horses were absolutely unbothered by any of it.

We also had one incident where American Jets went supersonic and bit too close to shore and blew out our windows!

All the older houses up near the airport have cracked ceilings from when they used the runway to test the fast jets. A friend of mine who lives up there will often text me to tell me the crockery is rattling on the dresser....