Two Chinooks

• Guest 651

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  29 March 2011     19:1999197
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  Rather annoyed with myself... I decided to stop to get a snap or two of the sunset, but went past Langdon Cliffs as there were a couple of cars blocking the way so parked up at the memorials at Swingate. Just as I got out of the car there was an almightly noise as TWO chinooks appeared from under the cliffs, came up at Fan Bay, swung round the lighthouse and inland !!!
  
  Any ideas what was going on? Were they in the docks or did they just do a very low coastal sweep ?
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  
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• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  29 March 2011     19:3499200
  #2      
  Well done with those Scotchie, just put a small pic on frontpage. Yours are much better there. Well done..excellent. great to have them in relation to the ground as it were.
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• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  30 March 2011     07:1899243
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  paul,paulb,it seems to be a reguler acurance of late,at least every 7 to 10 days.they rattle past my house that close i could shake hands with the pilot.it could be a gurka exersize due to redeployment to afgan.
• Guest 640

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  30 March 2011     08:3199246
  #4      
  Yes there was one about a week ago Brian and it rattled past my window too ..nearly had palpitations so I did. They make a thunderous sound. There was just one that time but it was very low and came over the roof. The ones yesterday, two of them, were more out over the harbour wall at my point in the flight path....but you can certain;ly hear them coming as the ground quakes.
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• Guest 700

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  30 March 2011     14:4799273
  #5      
  One came very low over our house... very loud...
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• Melissa Pile

  • Location: Dover
  30 March 2011     15:4899294
  #6      
  Same here they do have lots of mod land around so like mr Dixon said prepairing themselfs
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  30 March 2011     16:2799303
  #7      
  mel,so its mr dixon is it.mrs clemants.
• Guest 657

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  31 March 2011     09:3599393
  #8      
  Ooooh to fly one of those babies!!
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