Chinook flown over Burnley

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Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by Sean Dyche's Watch » Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:42 pm

did anyone else just see it?

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by Blackburn_Claret » Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:59 pm

Just seen a pigeon
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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by BenWickes » Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:06 pm

Trouble at Sabden Treacle Mines apparently.
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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by mikeS » Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:09 pm

Yep. I saw it. Looked to be headed toward Pendle.

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by Marney&Mee » Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:21 pm

Tried and failed to land at Barley
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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by bfcjg » Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:24 pm

Slow news day, no football.

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by wilks_bfc » Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:50 pm

Yeah. We are are Wilfreds/Crow Wood and it flew direct overhead

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by prettygreenclaret » Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:53 pm

Flew over us in Clitheroe not too long back heading west

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by Corky » Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:57 pm

You lot want to try living a couple of miles from RAF Odiham like I do. See them all day long and nights!!!! My wife has an App on her phone to check where they are all going. No idea why but it keeps her happy.

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by bobinho » Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:59 pm

I once had the pleasure of watching a chinook display team. You would be AMAZED at what that thing can do in the air. It might look like the big numb lummox of the helicopter world, but it’s brilliantly agile.

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by tim_noone » Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:02 pm

prettygreenclaret wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:53 pm
Flew over us in Clitheroe not too long back heading west
BLM :D

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by timshorts » Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:09 pm

The US pilot was trying to drop food parcels on Barnsley.
His boss saw a picture of Barnsley Town centre and mistook it for Beirut.

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Post by karatekid » Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:06 pm

Last time I was in a chinook I jumped out of it. 1991.
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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by dpinsussex » Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:21 pm

We have a couple every week in Hampshire

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by charlyt » Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:33 pm

bobinho wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:59 pm
I once had the pleasure of watching a chinook display team. You would be AMAZED at what that thing can do in the air. It might look like the big numb lummox of the helicopter world, but it’s brilliantly agile.
A way with words
'Lummox'
Brilliant...! :D

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by SPC&G » Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:45 pm

Last time I was in a chinook I jumped out of it. 1991.

Me too Karatekid. 1984.

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Post by FCBurnley » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:08 pm

Apparently looking for Imploding Turtle

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by groove » Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:36 am

bobinho wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:59 pm
I once had the pleasure of watching a chinook display team. You would be AMAZED at what that thing can do in the air. It might look like the big numb lummox of the helicopter world, but it’s brilliantly agile.
Yes, saw one at an air show and I was surprised at the agility of it. Very impressive.

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:15 am

Blackburn_Claret wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:59 pm
Just seen a pigeon
:lol:

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by LeadBelly » Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:44 am

dpinsussex wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:21 pm
We have a couple every week in Hampshire
Yes. I live in Basingstoke and it's nigh on a daily occurrence. We're only about 6/7 miles west of RAF Odiham (and with Salisbury Plain 15-20 miles westwards of us). When I first moved here 20+ years ago, it always used to be highly noticeable and Id be looking for what was making that distinctive noise but it barely registers now.
You sort of "feel" them as much as hear them with that deep "throb"; comforting to know they're around and training hard.

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by Ashingtonclaret46 » Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:48 am

SPC&G wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:45 pm
Last time I was in a chinook I jumped out of it. 1991.

Me too Karatekid. 1984.
Last time I was in one was 1978 and I marched out of the back of it with the Band of Royal Air Force Germany when we landed at a big USAFE airshow at Wiesbaden.

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by BennyD » Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:56 am

Still the only aircraft the RAF has that can have a mid air collision with itself.

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by Yeovil1951 » Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:11 am

Was it H for Harry

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by dpinsussex » Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:03 pm

LeadBelly wrote:
Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:44 am
Yes. I live in Basingstoke and it's nigh on a daily occurrence. We're only about 6/7 miles west of RAF Odiham (and with Salisbury Plain 15-20 miles westwards of us). When I first moved here 20+ years ago, it always used to be highly noticeable and Id be looking for what was making that distinctive noise but it barely registers now.
You sort of "feel" them as much as hear them with that deep "throb"; comforting to know they're around and training hard.
Same location then. I was Silchester and now in Tadley. Very common occurrence. They are impressive beasts of the sky.

I inow what you mean about the "feel" of them. Everything shakes

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by Corky » Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:31 pm

You live in Tadley? Blimey do you glow in the dark?

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Re: Chinook flown over Burnley

Post by dpinsussex » Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:56 pm

Corky wrote:
Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:31 pm
You live in Tadley? Blimey do you glow in the dark?
Only when I play cricket for the AWE lol

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