Greetings all of you great and all-knowing folk.
This might not be the right place to ask, but you have to start somewhere.
Today an aircraft went over my house (just south of Middlesbrough, on the Yorkshire side of the boundary). It sounded loud and odd so I went out to have a look. It was a piston twin, but with a vertical fin on each end of the horizontal stabiliser. I could not say if there was a central fin as well.
Its colouring was civil rather than military- white or pale.
Does anyone have any idea what it might be or where it was off to?
Thanks
Steve
By: steve611 - 29th May 2017 at 21:55
Thanks everyone. I will go with David Thompsons C-FARA. It definitely was’t a Bronco. Solid fuselage but with a horizontal stabiliser with a fin on each end. For a giggle, the local rag (the gazette) reported that the star of the event was the BBMF with the lancaster flanked by a spitfire and a hurricane. Bless.
By: Ghostrider 01 - 29th May 2017 at 13:33
It’s a OV-10 Bronco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Rockwell_OV-10_Bronco
By: snibble - 29th May 2017 at 10:04
I had the same thing, looked up to see a jet moving stupidly slowly, looked like a plasticene canberra stretched in all directions. Took a while before a lamp went on in my head and I realised it was a U2.
By: Bob - 28th May 2017 at 18:47
So, plenty of suggestions – any fit the bill? 😀
By: steve611 - 28th May 2017 at 17:30
Thankyou for that. Greatly appreciated.
I didn’t think ANYTHING would have been flying yesterday between some really nasty thunderstorms.
By: David Thompson - 27th May 2017 at 22:02
It was Short Skyvan C-FARA bringing the Falcons parachute display team up from Duxford , lots of photos here ;
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=c-fara+skyvan&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjtpNaX-5DUAhXIKlAKHYgGAkEQ_AUIBigB&biw=1347&bih=955
By strange coincidence OV-10B Bronco G-ONAA also flew up from Duxford to take part in the Skylive/Teesside Airshow .
By: adrian_gray - 27th May 2017 at 21:53
Certainly several Skyvans about, and at least one in white, though they sound turboprop rather than piston.
Any Flamants in the UK at the mo?
Adrian
By: jimbob23 - 27th May 2017 at 20:52
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th May 2017 at 20:12
Miles Gemini or LET Morava?
By: Bob - 27th May 2017 at 20:01
The OV-10 Bronco?
It flew north over me at about 1330hrs (St.Ives) and then back at 1743hrs. Apparently appearing at Skylive Airshow – Durham Tees Valley, UK today.
Or maybe a Cessna Skymaster?
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May 27, 2017 at 7:49 pm