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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:57 pm

Sooty655 wrote:
Xplumberlives wrote:Perhaps he's heard half of the CUPCAKE saga! =))

.....The first half, obviously. :p




Well obviously! Nobody will turn uup if they know the full sorry tale! :p
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Nov 02, 2011 4:20 pm

A Hawk 200 in the circuit at Wittering! ;)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Cluny » Wed Nov 02, 2011 6:33 pm

A Puma over Bicester heading SE towards Benson at 12:56 this lunchtime .
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Wed Nov 02, 2011 6:40 pm

Xplumberlives wrote:A Hawk 200 in the circuit at Wittering! ;)


One of those Single seat ones? :-o
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Nov 02, 2011 6:46 pm

No, sorry my mistake it was a T2 like these! :-o

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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:08 pm

Would've been cool if it was though :))

I was visited by a 32 sqn 146 earlier this week
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Hihonyr8811 » Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:13 pm


Was only there 45 minutes :))
It's probably the same hawk :))
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:30 pm

E6B Mercury overhead in the cloud B-)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Cluny » Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:27 pm

Got a Herc pounding around Weston on the Green DZ right now .
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:35 pm

Cluny wrote:Got a Herc pounding around Weston on the Green DZ right now .



NOT too ill then! :D
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Cluny » Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:30 pm

I can still look out the window :p
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:39 pm

Cluny wrote:I can still look out the window :p



So you could be sat at your desk at work! :p =)) :-o :ymdevil:
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Cluny » Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:41 pm

12:42 today , Air Atlantique DC3 Dakota rumbled over Bicester heading north when I was having my lunch :D
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:42 pm

Cluny wrote:12:42 today , Air Atlantique DC3 Dakota rumbled over Bicester heading north when I was having my lunch :D



Has the poorly little chap returned to work then! ;)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Cluny » Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:44 pm

I hate daytime TV .
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:48 pm

Cluny wrote:I hate daytime TV .



Really, I love sleeping through it! ;)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Cluny » Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:19 pm

Fokker F-27 heading north just now over Bicester , haven't seen 1 for years :)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:19 pm

Wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka
I saw a Chinook :D
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Dee » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:29 pm

2 Woccas going south at 4-15 :)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:37 pm

Spent an hour and a half polishing the car this afternoon and was joined by a pair of Typhoons dogfighting at 3000 feet and a passing Eagle! ;)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:48 pm

I heard the distinctive Wokka again today B-)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Thu Nov 17, 2011 6:08 pm

Olicat wrote:I heard the distinctive Wokka again today B-)



But you'll never hear the non distinctive one! =))
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Olicat » Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:23 pm

Just heard another one - I think they like me :))
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Xplumberlives » Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:53 pm

Might be the same one again! ;)
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Re: Spotters Corner

Postby Hihonyr8811 » Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:08 pm

Not really a aviation spot, although it was on the way to Coningsby :))
The very exhausted looking Matt Baker and Warwick Davis on Matt's Children in Need challenge taken near Scopwick.

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We weren't expecting to see him as we thought he was on a defferent road, so not the best pictures :(
I shouted good luck and got a thumbs up from him \:D/ :ymapplause:
I felt so sorry for him, but what a fantastic achievement!!!! I know I couldn't do what he's doing!!
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