What plane did I see over Lundy Island - 20.5.13
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Spent a few days on Lundy Island (off the North Devon coast) recently which was awesome! A personal highlight was a multiple fly-by while we were at the furthest point north on the island on 20.5.13. I'm not up with planes, but loved the 'performance' all the same.....it did 3 loops round at an amazingly low level, the noise was immense!
Zeek said:
I used to spend a lot of time on Steep Holm and the GR4s would use it as a converging point with two flying in about 100ft above the island from different directions. You'd see them flash over before you heard the noise!
Sounds fantastic, what sort of speed would you be doing? I've no idea what sort of speed the one I saw was travelling at, but I do know my camera could not take pictures fast enough 
Using Lundy as an IP on the way to 'Attack!' the ranges at Pembrey?
Good few years ago now, but I stayed at a campsite on the North Gower coast near Llangennith and was treated to an hour of flying from two USAF F15s 'attacking' the Pembrey ranges in various ways. Having grown up in the area we were often able to witness live firing by Hawks from the RAF gunnery school and A10 Thunderbolts from ?East Anglia. We'd regularly go wandering in Pembrey woods and find 20mm/30mm cannon shells (outside the confines of the live range!) It's a long time ago, but we used to go for walks/picnics/kite flying in the hills, and would see the Buccaneers of Strike Command BELOW us in the valleys on their low level exercises. Awesome.
ETA:
http://goo.gl/maps/sNaIt ...Lundy is the obvious lump in the sea, bottom left. Pembrey ranges are at the North Western tip of the long beach that runs between Burry Port and Kidwelly.
http://goo.gl/maps/7m50f ...Some of the targets on the ranges at Pembrey. Ironically these airframes probably used to be among those doing the firing.
http://goo.gl/maps/1Ex5j ...There's also a motorsport connection at the former RAF Pembrey airfield, right next door to the 'Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range'.
Good few years ago now, but I stayed at a campsite on the North Gower coast near Llangennith and was treated to an hour of flying from two USAF F15s 'attacking' the Pembrey ranges in various ways. Having grown up in the area we were often able to witness live firing by Hawks from the RAF gunnery school and A10 Thunderbolts from ?East Anglia. We'd regularly go wandering in Pembrey woods and find 20mm/30mm cannon shells (outside the confines of the live range!) It's a long time ago, but we used to go for walks/picnics/kite flying in the hills, and would see the Buccaneers of Strike Command BELOW us in the valleys on their low level exercises. Awesome.
ETA:
http://goo.gl/maps/sNaIt ...Lundy is the obvious lump in the sea, bottom left. Pembrey ranges are at the North Western tip of the long beach that runs between Burry Port and Kidwelly.
http://goo.gl/maps/7m50f ...Some of the targets on the ranges at Pembrey. Ironically these airframes probably used to be among those doing the firing.
http://goo.gl/maps/1Ex5j ...There's also a motorsport connection at the former RAF Pembrey airfield, right next door to the 'Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range'.
Edited by yellowjack on Friday 24th May 14:20
yellowjack said:
Using Lundy as an IP on the way to 'Attack!' the ranges at Pembrey?
Good few years ago now, but I stayed at a campsite on the North Gower coast near Llangennith and was treated to an hour of flying from two USAF F15s 'attacking' the Pembrey ranges in various ways. Having grown up in the area we were often able to witness live firing by Hawks from the RAF gunnery school and A10 Thunderbolts from ?East Anglia. We'd regularly go wandering in Pembrey woods and find 20mm/30mm cannon shells (outside the confines of the live range!) It's a long time ago, but we used to go for walks/picnics/kite flying in the hills, and would see the Buccaneers of Strike Command BELOW us in the valleys on their low level exercises. Awesome.
ETA:
http://goo.gl/maps/sNaIt ...Lundy is the obvious lump in the sea, bottom left. Pembrey ranges are at the North Western tip of the long beach that runs between Burry Port and Kidwelly.
http://goo.gl/maps/7m50f ...Some of the targets on the ranges at Pembrey. Ironically these airframes probably used to be among those doing the firing.
http://goo.gl/maps/1Ex5j ...There's also a motorsport connection at the former RAF Pembrey airfield, right next door to the 'Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range'.
I went to school on Gower (Penclawdd) And we used to watch Hunters, Hawks, A10's, Harriers Phantoms, etc attacking the ranges across the estuary from us. SNEB rockets were a favourite of ours along with the A10,s gun. Good few years ago now, but I stayed at a campsite on the North Gower coast near Llangennith and was treated to an hour of flying from two USAF F15s 'attacking' the Pembrey ranges in various ways. Having grown up in the area we were often able to witness live firing by Hawks from the RAF gunnery school and A10 Thunderbolts from ?East Anglia. We'd regularly go wandering in Pembrey woods and find 20mm/30mm cannon shells (outside the confines of the live range!) It's a long time ago, but we used to go for walks/picnics/kite flying in the hills, and would see the Buccaneers of Strike Command BELOW us in the valleys on their low level exercises. Awesome.
ETA:
http://goo.gl/maps/sNaIt ...Lundy is the obvious lump in the sea, bottom left. Pembrey ranges are at the North Western tip of the long beach that runs between Burry Port and Kidwelly.
http://goo.gl/maps/7m50f ...Some of the targets on the ranges at Pembrey. Ironically these airframes probably used to be among those doing the firing.
http://goo.gl/maps/1Ex5j ...There's also a motorsport connection at the former RAF Pembrey airfield, right next door to the 'Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range'.
Edited by yellowjack on Friday 24th May 14:20
Munitions still get washed up on Whitford burrows beach, North Gower.
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