Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,302
And NOTHING in the MSN or covered by TV.
Thank goodness for Brad and others who are not afraid to persue the TRUTH.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/huge-military-aircraft-flies-low-over-kent-321948/"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,302
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,088
BIG PLANE IN SKY!
WE GOT PICS!
WHY NOBODY SAY NUFFINK?
Regular Kent Online experience.
Any craft above ground that's larger than a glider is 'huge', 'mammoth', 'stunning' and 'incredible' to the impressionable teens there.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,922
Big surprise a large plane flies over Eastry, possibly on the way to an air display. When I lived in nearby Tilmanstone I can remember we had a low flying jet fighter overhead, noisy thing.
When I lived in Suffolk, we saw large planes some high some lower some going to various displays.
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,827
You very rarely ever find out why.I can remember some years ago we was working up nr Lydden spout firing range one night.A large plane,could have been passenger i dont know flew really low nr the cliff top,it banked sharply and it was so low that you could actually smell the fuel vapour,it circled round a few times n then headed out towards the sea.We never found out why and nothing was mentioned on local tv news or the Dover rag,it really looked like it was coming down.No idea what it was about.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,302
They then reached the Kent coast at about 11.15am before looping around London and going ‘out of range .........................................
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/three-military-chinooks-spotted-flying-over-kent-322036/

"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,922
Thinking back to Suffolk, we were high up and saw the extremely low Lancaster together with its Spitfire and Hurricane flying to or from a nearby display. I will never forget their tremendous noise or that wonderful Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,088
Captain Haddock wrote:They then reached the Kent coast at about 11.15am before looping around London and going ‘out of range...
'Guys, we've lost Hampshire!'
I suppose one takeaway is that the RAF can still at least put some creaky old craft in the air, even if it's only PR to keep excitable Kent Online readers happy.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,090
Weird Granny Slater wrote:I suppose one takeaway is that the RAF can still at least put some creaky old craft in the air, even if it's only PR to keep excitable Kent Online readers happy.
Alas, I think the Chinooks were Dutch, possibly giving us the finger.
(Not my real name.)
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,088
Customer: Waiter, I ordered bread sauce!
Waiter: Sorry Sir, we have only the Hollandaise.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus