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Military up to something?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:52 pm
by rawsco
5 or maybe 6 chinooks just flew past Larbert heading Eastish flying low and quick.
Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:09 pm
by BigD
rawsco wrote:5 or maybe 6 chinooks just flew past Larbert heading Eastish flying low and quick.
Just saw them too. They sounded great but couldn’t tell what they were. I counted 6 too.
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Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:13 pm
by jen
Went past Bathgate too, I missed it though, was engrossed in the Ireland/NZ rugby match from the weekend!
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Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:19 pm
by campbell
Were bringing my Chinese takeaway
From Faslane
Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:26 pm
by rawsco
Almost certainly Chinooks going by the noise couldn’t see them.
Impressive things, I remember at Brize norton the sign at the apron where you could drive across said something along the lines of look out for chinooks taking off, they WILL blow your car away
Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:26 pm
by rawsco
campbell wrote: ↑Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:19 pm
Were bringing my Chinese takeaway
From Faslane
Billion pound Trident surprise?
Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:27 pm
by campbell
Crispy aromatic sub
Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:37 pm
by BigD
My favourite chopper sound is the hueys.
These were big but I assumed seaking size.
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Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 8:05 am
by douglasgdmw
Heard the helicopters around the Pentland hills whilst walking the dogs last night.
Seemingly they were taking off from Kirknewton airfield as port of Iron Python.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Hg-V37qPY
George
Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 8:11 am
by jen
Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 11:36 am
by BigD
Apache’s eh. That’s pretty cool.
They did sound good.
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Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 11:59 am
by rawsco
Very cool... I’m glad I didn’t see them I’d have been thinking we were getting invaded... they must have been very low over our development as it was LOUD
Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 12:16 pm
by Matelotman
Heard them again about 2230 last night over Bathgate - couldn't be bothered looking but definitely not Chinooks.
Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 12:25 pm
by rawsco
Yeah, when I saw them coming back (incidentally only 2 so I guess 4 were shot down over Alloa
) I could see they were too small for Chinooks.
Re: Military up to something?
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:11 pm
by campbell
Didn't realise Kirknewton was still on the go. Broke down there in my XR2 in 1990. Had to ask the gatehouse guy to use the phone to get rescued...he was grumpy as hell.