One of these just flew past my office window;
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Heading East, so perhaps en route to strafing Casa Elfin.......
Heading east to Nam...dagenham, or off to launch hellfires at helmandshire... or Essex.
Well, if you will work in Thamesmead what do you expect?
Just saw that overhead whilst walking through the Inner Temple 🙂
Which part of London...it's looks hilly.
Probably get a flight in before the government decide we don't need them and ground them 😉
If they do eBay them off, I'll have one.
Am I the only person who saw that picture and [i]immediately [/i]had the Airwolf theme running in their head?
My first thought was it hasn't got the Longbow Fire Control Radar 😳
as far as i'm aware, longbow is not needed in the 'stan, 50 tanks coming over the horizon has been replaced by a couple of crafty yoofs with AK and a command wire hidden behind a mud wall.
any road, an apache was palying a couple of miles from us last night, really distinctive sound
There was one of them buzzing around last time I was at Stile Cop. Bloody quiet it was too.
Odd though... Whilst it is missing the MMW dome, it is also missing the little antenna that usually marks out an AH-64/A from an AH-64D.
Bloody SDSR
East to Wattisham i reckon
Dear anoraks,
The picture above was the first one I could find on google images and therefore may not be a totally accurate reflection of the exact heli seen over That London's Famous City of London earlier today.
Furthermore, I can assure you that the South Bank, while hilly in parts, does not look like that.
😉
I took this picture in that London so long ago I had to scan it..
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Rachel
Bugger. Missed it cos I was out. 🙁
Get them now and then, flying along the course of the Thames.
Anyone want to guess why they do that? 😉
Chinook's are me fave hekelopter though. Often get them flying past my gaff, following the course of the Thames...
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Ear Flashy; you seen about that fox what was living in the Shard? 72nd floor the little bugger!! 😀
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Loving the bloke stood in the doorway of the wokka wokka. 😀
as far as i'm aware, longbow is not needed in the 'stan, 50 tanks coming over the horizon has been replaced by a couple of crafty yoofs with AK and a command wire hidden behind a mud wall.
Skiboy - You might enjoy reading [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apache-Dawn-Always-Outnumbered-Outgunned/dp/1847442544 ]Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned[/url]
In the summer of 2007 the British Army's 662 Squadron deployed its most potent weapons system in combat for the very first time - the iconic Apache attack helicopter. This is the definitive story of the aircraft and of the crew who fly her, and of their baptism of fire in the battle for Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Under the call-sign Ugly, four of the Army Air Corps' finest pilots flew a relentless series of missions during their 100-day deployment, stretching the aircraft, and themselves, to the limit.
allthegear:
I took this picture in that London so long ago I had to scan it..*nothing*
Am I the only one who don't see shiiiiiiit?
I didn't see it either.
Heading East? Libya? Perhaps they're delivering it to Gaddafi as part of Dave's ethical Foreign policy?
Fred. I've had a game of football in he back of a Chinook while flying over Salisbury. Bloody Noisy buggers
Yeah? Well I've had a fight on the platform at Victoria station. Man lost his finger.
Still went to Sheerness though.
Get them now and then, flying along the course of the Thames.Anyone want to guess why they do that?
IIRC it's something to do with the fact that the city airspace is heavily occupied, so following the Thames allows them to fly lower, and avoid all the other shite buzzing above?
They also follow the M25 round my way, passing over the QEII bridge. Easy navigation innit!
Often hear the Chinooks passing by the Tower.
as far as i'm aware, longbow is not needed in the 'stan, 50 tanks coming over the horizon has been replaced by a couple of crafty yoofs with AK and a command wire hidden behind a mud wall.
That picture was probably of a Yank Apache. Their engines aren't as powerful as the British version so in Afghanistan, because of the altitude they have to have the Longbow radar removed to lose some weight whilst the British Apaches retain theirs. Apparently the Longbow comes in handy for spotting suspicious 4x4 activity in the desert.
Under the call-sign Ugly, four of the Army Air Corps' finest pilots flew a relentless series of missions during their 100-day deployment, stretching the aircraft, and themselves, to the limit.
seeing as the biggest threat is a local with an RPG and they have total command of the air if they are testing themselves to the limit I'd want some money back
A load of Apaches are stationed out here in Suffolk - just outside Ipswich.
We get them stooging around here on their way into RAF Lyneham, saw one yesterday while I was sat outside the coffee shop in the high street. Ugly buggers. That 'Nook standing on it's nose is damned scary, I hadn't spotted th bloke in the doorway. I think I'd have been whimpering in a corner.
I've hung out the back door of a wokka-wokka/Nookie/'Nook at low altitude across Salisbury Plain. Strapped in to a harness etc but still, wooooooo!
Wokka-Wokka go swimmy-swimmy!
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