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[Laura007]

practically in my front garden!!!

 

well, not quite, but it was only about 200m away. just brilliant!!! the noise it made was incredible.

 

how do i get to go in one????

 

i am well impressed.

[Snowy]

Wow, bet that was a spectacle!

[Cinnamon]

They are HUGE aren't they?

[theherd123]

Love them!

 

Went to an air show a couple of years ago and they were one of my faves along with the Eurofighters esp with their afterburners on - WOW!!!

 

[Laura007]

i was running around the garden trying to get a better view, then when it took off ran down the back garden following it. i bet the pilot thought i was a right nutter!

[Chickvic]

[Charlottechicken]

Interesting...

 

If it is one of those twin rotor troop carrier helicopters, I've just had one circling overhead here, well around an hour ago. I'm not far from Selly Oak Hospital, where they treat the troops, just wondered if they were bringing in more casualties

[jlo]

I agree that they are great machines. They used to have one at the children's primary school fete and it always amazed me that it could even get off the ground - let alone do all the fancy manoeuvres!

 

Having said that, living a couple of miles from the Odiham Airbase, we get a bit fed up with their low flying, especially at night. I am sure that Koojie will agree that it can really rattle the window frames!

[Chook n Boo Mum]

I can agree with that, we're not far from Thorney where they fly out of at unusual hours. We feel them before we hear them...well I do !

 

Sha x

[Mrs Webmuppet]

I agree they are really noisy. I used to live near some Army training grounds and the house used to shake when they went over.

 

I once had one hover just above my car on a slipway coming off the off the A20..........it was surreal looking up through the sunroof and seeing a pair of feet dangling just above me ( my poor little car was wobbling all over the place with the down draft).

 

At the time I lived at the top of a very steep hill and the 'choppers would suddenly just appear on the horizon just skimming the tops of the trees (action movie style!)

[keyhole kate]

how do i get to go in one????

 

i am well impressed.

Get a Son/Daughter to join the RAF as Aircrew/Air tech My DS arranged for OH & I to get a ride on familys day at Odiham brilliant but scary too

 

jlo and Koojie are absolutly right they are very very noisey

 

They usually use motorways or major roads as navigation points especially at night

if any of you live near these it may explain why you have seen them.

 

DS now moved on to Tornados I definatley dont want a ride in those

[ali-s]

Chinooks are brilliant, I love the sound the rotors make. we had one about a couple of weeks ago, I think there was an exercise on at the local RAF base.

 

We live less than a quarter of a mile from the end of the runway and our cottage is on the flight path. Monday to Friday we have tornados screaming overhead just about our cottage several times a day. Last week we were treated to many displays from the Red Arrows. they were very low and came up our driveway , I stood outside waving both my arms like a mad women . I have seen Hercules transporters with their back doors open, they are very scarey when they fly above you. On Monday there was an Awak (sp) overhead and a couple of Nimrods both are enormous. the search and rescue helicopters fly low across the fields at the side of the house, if we are in the garden the men give us a wave.

 

We are currently in the process of getting triple glazing via the RAF to cut down on the noise

 

Saturday and Sunday only the helicopters are about so all is quiet

[Valkyrie]

Jlo's right - they don't half rattle the windows - so saying that, they've been quiet for a few days - I know where they've gone now!

 

I do find the sound quite relaxing - especially in the middle of the night, it's like a comforter! Haven't heard the Hercules lately, but then the Puma's aren't around here much now and they are dismantled and carried by these huge humming planes. Been on one of those Puma's - comfortable? Not on your nelly - more basic than Aeroflot! My two had left the school before the Chinook went there - although the PTA tried many a time. Some blooming war thing kept interfering. Hmphhh!

 

Laura - you are just going to have to join the RAF - then you can come and visit Jlo and meeeeeeee!

 

I have been buzzed by a Chinook before when going cross country to get my veggies from Mandy at her little farm. I swear the guy in the open part laughed as I breaked (and cursed a bit). Sometimes they are really low - and in the past I have estimated them and the Red Arrows to be 50 ft above the house - big exaggeration - they would bump into the oak tree! So I don't know what height they go at - too close sometimes though. I do tend to wave to them anyway. And hot air balloons, and microlites. I am a very sad person.

[TheGirlsMum]

My Hubby is based at RNAS Culdrose and we have night flying and all that jazz.

 

Airday is on 29th July this year, my youngest's birthday and she is not amused about having a special fly past just for her.

 

And... did you know that Father Christmas deliovers presents to school in a search and resque helicopter?

 

Well now you do

[Lydia]

Did anyone else misread the title and instead see "WOW a chook just landed....."?

 

No, just me then.

 

Must. Get. Out. More.

[The Dogmother]

We get them over here a lot too; my favourites.

 

Rosie used to call them 'wokka-wokkas' when she was little because of the noise they make.

[jlo]

Did anyone else misread the title and instead see "WOW a chook just landed....."?

 

No, just me then.

 

Must. Get. Out. More.

 

 

[Seagazer]

I've seen them flying over here a few times too, quite high up but they are still so noisy

[Laura007]

 

Laura - you are just going to have to join the RAF - then you can come and visit Jlo and meeeeeeee!

 

 

its funny you should say that, cos everytime i see a chopper of any kind, you can guarentee i will say " he's got my job!" i would love to pilot a chopper for real. i had a lesson in one a few years ago and i tell you what, it was just brilliant, i couldnt stop talking about it for days. Paul was bored rigid after a week, but to be honest it didnt really stop me.

 

there have been more military choppers hanging about today, but the noise was not nearly as loud.

 

as soon as come into enough cash to pay for lessons and buy a chopper i will whizz across to you and land in your back garden, maybe take the chooks for a spin!

[jlo]

DD and I were on the M3 an hour or so ago and saw 10 helicopters flying in formation. We then saw a lonely chinook going in the opposite direction and wondered if the others wouldn't play because he was different!

[keyhole kate]

DD and I were on the M3 an hour or so ago and saw 10 helicopters flying in formation. We then saw a lonely chinook going in the opposite direction and wondered if the others wouldn't play because he was different!

 

 

 

[Valkyrie]

Didn't see all of them, but we spotted 2 Lynx's last night. Laura - just be careful of the oak tree and watch out for the orpies - they whinge enough as it is!

Ahhh, poor Lydia.

 

At the other side of the airbase is a layby where you can watch the exercises sometimes (timing tends to be luck more than anything) and when the children were small I would often take them to see if the choppers were out and about. One day we were lucky to see a Chinook do several stunts - the pilot made it look like it was so light the way he threw the machine around. Very impressive and we didn't realise that could be done with such a monster.

 

Culdrose - been there, got nice sweatshirts - er, I outgrew them many moons ago BC! But my brother often has to go there, sometimes Odiham, Farnborough, Scotland, Gibraltar, Cyprus - he is attached to the Navy, but as he's been just up the road we assume it must be the Fleet Air Arm side of things (my dad was in the Fleet Air Arm during the war - Barracuda's he had to sort out - some say they were "paper planes").

[keyhole kate]

Odihams 27 Sqn chinooks also have an attachment to HMS Ocean

 

Laura007 If you pm me your address I have a Chinook Air Display poster signed by the aircrew at the time DS was stationed there if you would like it I am happy to post to you ?

 

When we had our flight on familys day the Air Loadmaster (clips on and practicaly hangs out the back door when it open ) Was it fits of laughter as YD was nearest to the open door and was hanging on to the seat with white knuckles.

[Valkyrie]

Ah, HMS Ocean. Thanks - that explains it all.

 

That's a lovely gesture Keyhole Kate, but I have a fear that when Laura reads your posting, she will be bouncing off the walls with excitement!

[keyhole kate]

Blimey she's easily pleased