What Flies Over Your Home ???

[amethist]

Here I was sat quietly editing, when I heard the loud drone of a propeller engine, through the open patio door.

This was a loud deep drone, only heard from an old prop engine, so imagine my surprise to see this circling overhead.

By the shape of the wings, it looks like a spitfire.

These were the best images I could get. I have enlarged and cropped them down, but wow, not something you expect to see on a typical Saturday afternoon.

Amethist

 

[Sqweak]

Very cool amethist! There are planes that fly over my house all time, but they aren't as cool as that one.

 

[Srain]

We get military air craft but usually at night. I could never get cool shots like these !! :tup:

Rain

 

[KP the nut]

Amazing. H and I were at Lake Bala once when a Lancaster Bomber flew down the length of the lake towards us. I swear we were not the only ones who started humming the Dambuster music.

It is great these relics can still fly.

 

[Mina]

Wow - that's really neat, Amethist! :)

Occasionally at my office, we have fighter jets flying over and around and practicing various formations and maneuvers. They come from the Air Force base on the other side of the mountains, in the eastern central part of the state. I happened to be outside at my car once, and got to watch them - very loud, but cool! If you're inside, you have to put your phone conversation on hold, lol.

 

[catjudo]

Cool! As for the question, what flies over your home...we routinely get large groups of hot air balloons flying over our home early in the morning. My daughter loves to watch them!

 

[shell]

Pelicans usually in a group, often worry if they are going to hit the washing.
Cockatoos and galahs always in flocks at dusk

 

[amethist]

Flocks of geese and sometime duck's, is the norm here, as well as the usual plane on its way to the local airport.

I suppose this does make up for the Lancaster not flying over last weekend when we expected it to.

 

[Deleted member 487]

Clouds. Lots of them usually, but sometimes none for days on end.

 

[anni]

That made me think of what you folks went through in the war-my ex mother in law remembers those doodlebug things taking out whole neighborhoods in London-she and her sister under the stairs. Her parents I guess sent her to the West Country as part of some program where city children went to live and work on farms or something. Anyway, when I lived over there she showed me photos of one of those things going over- no idea who took it.

We have a training base not far-get military air craft alllll the time plus are in a flight path for a life-line helicopter. Boy is that distinctive. Otherwise it's geese twice a year, then herons and hawks. Be amazing to see historical aircraft. Pretty sure the balloons would avoid this area like the plague-too heavily wooded but gosh-love to see that! Did see someone apparently not too conversant with the lack of air current in this part of the mountains once-hang gliding.Didn't see him again, or hear the copter so am assuming he came down ok.

 

[charliehotelwhiskey]

I live just of the flight path of the Ottawa International Airport, so I see all sorts of planes fly over. The most memorable ones are: The Canadian Air Force Snow Birds, an old B-25 bomber, Air Force One (this was when Obama came to town). Also I saw the International Space Station come by overhead twice.

 

[Venator]

There is a small training airfield near me that a lot of little Cessnas and such fly out of. There's also an Air Guard base there and i see all sorts of cool things from time to time. Helicopters, can't remember the models but I see AH-64s sitting by the airfield, old B-52s and other cool things (C-17 Globemaster, C-130 )