View from your Window

Yesterday evening I looked out towards the mountains and saw a CL-215 water bomber…in classic yellow and red…heading southeast towards Idaho.
A pretty sight.

Usually nothing much…

…but currently:-

Mark

Snap!!! :p Here’s mine! This is under the circuit to RAF Lyneham’s main runway, so a constant stream of Hercules plus any visitors.

view from my window

this is the view from my living room, I never get tired of it !

Waddington is ‘707 heaven

Graham

Hi,

I can see that from my window. Guess where it is….

Frank

Sinsheim/Speyer?

Mark

In better days when you looked out of your window you would see a Seafire 46 assembled.
Any chance seeing a Mk 22 outside in the near future
(oh oh another thread succumbing to Mitchell’s finest 😮 )

Cees 😉

Usually nothing much…

…but currently:-

Mark

Bucket loads of CHC Scotia Sikorsky-S76’s serving the offshore rigs in the North Sea.

Don’t quite know how that fits into the “Historic” forum though. :confused:

Well, we’ve got it tough up over here. Nothing quite as exciting as what most of the previous posters enjoy.

I had my office positioned allowing a view over both runways. Throughout the year, during daylight hours on the airfield, we have to put up with every PFA type you can imagine, more microlight types than you can shake a stick at, every GA single you could think of, most GA twins around including an interesting Apache Geronimo, a vast cross section of corporate twin turboprop and jet types, the aerobatic guys who come here to practice a number of times a year, the training and SAR helo’s from the nearby RAF base, the Army Apache helo’s including a recent detachment based on the airfield for a week, every sort of piston and turbine civil helo etc, etc. Overhead, a vast array of Mil fast jets and heavies.

During the dark hours, and I mean dark i.e. midnight etc (I know, we are sad being here at these ungodly hours, late working, honest) we enjoy overshoots and landings from certain C130’s with ‘interesting’ callsigns amongst others.

Interesting things have included the Chinook air-lifting out a SeaKing after it had an engine cooked, the ‘local’ Spit regularly practicing his display routine, AN2’s, C47’s, Twin Pin, Rapide, Anson, Moths various, lots of biplane types etc, etc, etc.

OK, so who’s got the best view now?

Almost everything that flies wearing a roundal of her majasty’s armed forces plus the odd ones such as Andovers, BAC 111s, Alpha Jets and lets not forget the Harvard. Then of course there is the visiting foreign types and transitting civvy types. The curse of having the approach to Boscombe Down beyond the back garden. Oh and living in a village that is a visual reporting point for entry into the SPTA – which means you get Appaches low overhead at midnight.
When the chap came to view the house next door, the wife arrived with the estate agent in a car, he landed his AAC Gazelle in the cornfield at the rear of the house!

Am living near a low fly zone of the Dutch airforce. So we see Apache’s coming over at tree top hights. F-16’s flying below 1000 ft. And a few times a year the Dutch Spit and B-25 coming over. Good place to be.

from my bedroom window i get a great veiw of helicopters landing at Hereford County Hospital… mostly air ambulances “about 4 or 5 times a week” but i have also seen a couple of Sea Kings a AAC Gazelle and Agusta visiting in the last 6 months.. i took these shots earlier today.. 🙂

Commercials heading in and out of Stansted, Microlites from Hunsdon and the occasional burst of activity from the North Weald based aircraft of Peter Teichman if they are flying up to Duxford. The latter still gets me running out into the garden to see, just like a schoolchild 😮

I looked out of my window late this afternoon and saw in the distance what appeared to be “Sally B” arriving in the area for the Sunderland airshow. If someone will confirm that the Fort did leave Duxford today, I’ll know I wasn’t seeing things.

Normally I just see stuff on decending, heading towards Newcastle Airport.

Steve

Sally “B” was displaying at the Lowestoft airshow mid afternoon yesterday, and may have gone on to Sunderland

I live in Alabama. My house is on a private grass airfield. (Roy Ray Airport 5R7). At any time I might see Stearmans, Cubs, most of the small Cessnas, a Starduster, a Pitts, a Stinson 108, a Taylorcraft, a Cherokee, an Agcat, a few home builts and ultralights too.

Forgot the T6.

I looked out of my window late this afternoon and saw in the distance what appeared to be “Sally B” arriving in the area for the Sunderland airshow. If someone will confirm that the Fort did leave Duxford today, I’ll know I wasn’t seeing things.

Normally I just see stuff on decending, heading towards Newcastle Airport.

Steve

Hispano 25. Germany i presume as there is a Tu144 and Concorde in the pic. Forgot the name of the museum. What is it called again?

I live in Mildenhall,Suffolk and can see everything arriving on runway 29 and or departing on runway 11,i can sit in the garden watching the USAF circuit bashing,even had a few S-3 Vikings a few weeks back,came in right over my roof on short downwind final for 29…..we have the two F-18F’s from Farnborough in at the moment,waiting to go home tomorrow i believe,a KC-10 has appeared so i’m assuming its taking them.

al

snooping around the tree line making a nuisence of myself.

I live in Alabama. My house is on a private grass airfield. (Roy Ray Airport 5R7). At any time I might see Stearmans, Cubs, most of the small Cessnas, a Starduster, a Pitts, a Stinson 108, a Taylorcraft, a Cherokee, an Agcat, a few home builts and ultralights too.

Was looking at this through my window last night.

Do goggles qualify as windows? :confused:

Anything going into Yeovilton on R09 or coming out on R27, all from my chair in the lounge, a bit quiter since the Shars left but still get some nice visitors like the Sentinel last week doing circuits