Please go and play with your Chinooks somewhere else.

Huge wrote:
> Please go and play with your Chinooks somewhere else.

Not here, please.
Mind you, it'd make a change from being asked if that's Prince William
every time a Sea-King goes past.

Huge <Huge> wrote:

> Please go and play with your Chinooks somewhere else.

WTF are they doing up there?

We have them all concentrated down here. They're even based just up the
road. Currently playing silly buggers with their long string and a big
bucket hanging off it that they use to train pilots to carry around a
large bucket dangling from a long string.

Steve Firth wrote:
> Huge <Huge> wrote:
>
>> Please go and play with your Chinooks somewhere else.
>
> WTF are they doing up there?
>
> We have them all concentrated down here. They're even based just up the
> road. Currently playing silly buggers with their long string and a big
> bucket hanging off it that they use to train pilots to carry around a
> large bucket dangling from a long string.

Conkers?

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:34:09 +0000, Huge wrote:

> Please go and play with your Chinooks somewhere else.

This will be Firthy banning them from his airspace, they can't play here
'cos it upsets Queenie, Edgeland is too hilly, so I guess your next.

On 2009-07-01, Steve Firth <%steve%> wrote:
> Huge <Huge> wrote:
>
>> Please go and play with your Chinooks somewhere else.
>
> WTF are they doing up there?

BTFOOM. Two have gone past 3 times this afto. We used to see them a lot
when Thurleigh was an MoD^WQinetiq research site, but not much any more.

I have seen the Vulcan twice in the last 2 weeks, which was pretty kewl. We get
a fair few historics from Duxford over, ditto. Although the plonker who landed
a 60 y/o helicopter in the farmyard should reread the aphorism about old,
bold pilots.

Huge wrote:

> I have seen the Vulcan twice in the last 2 weeks, which was pretty kewl. We get
> a fair few historics from Duxford over, ditto. Although the plonker who landed
> a 60 y/o helicopter in the farmyard should reread the aphorism about old,
> bold pilots.

A 60 year old helicopter? What was it?

Huge <Huge> wrote:

> BTFOOM. Two have gone past 3 times this afto. We used to see them a lot
> when Thurleigh was an MoD^WQinetiq research site, but not much any more.

Hmm haven't QinetiQ shut down Bedford as well? Or was it just bits of it
that they sold off? I lost track after they sold some of it to Benetton.

> I have seen the Vulcan twice in the last 2 weeks, which was pretty kewl.


Mmmm nice. We used to get a lot of that sort of thing when we lived near
Godalming, under the ley line running from Dunsfold to Farnborough. Down
here it's almost exclusively helicopters from Odiham or Middle Wallop.
Although I do owe a Tornado pilot a kick in the 'nads for his use of our
chimneys for target practice.

> We get a fair few historics from Duxford over, ditto. Although the plonker
> who landed a 60 y/o helicopter in the farmyard should reread the aphorism
> about old, bold pilots.

We had a Gazelle land in the paddock a few years ago. It puzzled me, not
least because there are electricity wires on three sides of the paddock.
Then the pilot and co-pilot got out and legged it, with smoke pouring
out from jsut behind the cockpit. It turned out that the batteries were
on fire.

On 1 Jul 2009 14:34:09 GMT, Huge <Huge> wrote:

>Please go and play with your Chinooks somewhere else.

Where are they?
Someone said there were a lot of police and chinooks in London the
other night but assumed it was to do with that army parade

Huge wrote:

> I have seen the Vulcan twice in the last 2 weeks, which was pretty kewl. We get
> a fair few historics from Duxford over, ditto. Although the plonker who landed
> a 60 y/o helicopter in the farmyard should reread the aphorism about old,
> bold pilots.

Something about having as many landings as take-offs?

On 2009-07-01, Fevric J. Glandules <fjg> wrote:
> Huge wrote:
>
>> I have seen the Vulcan twice in the last 2 weeks, which was pretty kewl. We get
>> a fair few historics from Duxford over, ditto. Although the plonker who landed
>> a 60 y/o helicopter in the farmyard should reread the aphorism about old,
>> bold pilots.
>
> A 60 year old helicopter? What was it?

Lord knows. Something from Duxford. Old. Scary.

On 2009-07-01, Steve Firth <%steve%> wrote:
> Huge <Huge> wrote:
>
>> BTFOOM. Two have gone past 3 times this afto. We used to see them a lot
>> when Thurleigh was an MoD^WQinetiq research site, but not much any more.
>
> Hmm haven't QinetiQ shut down Bedford as well? Or was it just bits of it
> that they sold off? I lost track after they sold some of it to Benetton.

Jonathan Palmer. Some of the site is Bedford Autodrome (*), some of it
a distribution centre but the wind tunnel site is still there. Dunno who
runs it now, though.

(* About which the locals complain. They should think themselves lucky
TNT Skypak didn't get permission to run an air cargo hub there.)

> Although I do owe a Tornado pilot a kick in the 'nads for his use of our
> chimneys for target practice.

At least we only get microlights using us as a waypoint.

> We had a Gazelle land in the paddock a few years ago. It puzzled me, not
> least because there are electricity wires on three sides of the paddock.
> Then the pilot and co-pilot got out and legged it, with smoke pouring
> out from jsut behind the cockpit. It turned out that the batteries were
> on fire.

Ah.

On 2009-07-02, mogga <di> wrote:
> On 1 Jul 2009 14:34:09 GMT, Huge <Huge> wrote:
>
>>Please go and play with your Chinooks somewhere else.
>
> Where are they?

North Bedfordshire.

On 2009-07-02, Willy Eckerslyke <oss108no_spam> wrote:
> Huge wrote:
>
>> I have seen the Vulcan twice in the last 2 weeks, which was pretty kewl. We get
>> a fair few historics from Duxford over, ditto. Although the plonker who landed
>> a 60 y/o helicopter in the farmyard should reread the aphorism about old,
>> bold pilots.
>
> Something about having as many landings as take-offs?

Naah, just that there are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold
pilots.

"Fevric J. Glandules" <fjg> wrote in message
news:oir1
> Huge wrote:
>
>> I have seen the Vulcan twice in the last 2 weeks, which was pretty kewl.
>> We get
>> a fair few historics from Duxford over, ditto. Although the plonker who
>> landed
>> a 60 y/o helicopter in the farmyard should reread the aphorism about old,
>> bold pilots.
>
> A 60 year old helicopter? What was it?
>My guess would be a Bell 47

Steve Terry