Fixed wing RAF routinely 250'.
They do practice lower though, I'm told -100' on known military exercise sites....and lower at sea.
They do practice lower though, I'm told -100' on known military exercise sites....and lower at sea.
Is "preparedness" a state of mind?
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I would agree, if you are a veteran camper it is likely you have accrued enough stuff to get you through a few difficult situations, I keep a canister gas stove in the car and small Kelly kettle, that is not prepping, they just live there.
There's also some online pages. We chatted to someone who investigates when planes go too low and that was an interesting conversation. We're sure our house was used as target and the military transport plane got it a bit wrong and was under 250' by mistake...
We often get low flight training around us and over the sea near us. I also assume some are test flights?
I know I was working in Perthshire, and the pilot of jaguar passed less than a hundred feet from us...horizontally that was...vertically the blighter couldn't have been more than 50' up. He waved ...in all of the split second we saw him I mean. The noise was the biggest shock I think.
RAF is somewhat renowned for low flying.
RAF is somewhat renowned for low flying.
Anyone who has climbed in Wales has looked down on RAF aircraft.
But while the Americans may think 800' is low flying, honestly, by our standards that's pretty lofty really.
In the last few days... while driving to the shops... i've seen on 2 separate occaisions... a white van, being escorted by 4 police cars.. Marked cars, BMW estates... They pushed through red lights, yet drove within the speed limit. Not seen that round here before either. Reminded me of disaster movies where important folk get picked up and taken to the safe place... Not saying that's what it was, just that its the first time i've seen it in this country.
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Yeah, they have a dozen airbases here already. Spent a week at Mildenhall back when i was in the cadets as our 'annual camp'
Hmm, interesting!
Just googled white van escorted by police and there is an article about this happening over the last few days in Hull and Cottingham "on a high security training exercise "
So that could be what you saw if you are near that area.
But, who knows the real reason. They'd never tell us anyway.
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We're 60+ miles to both. They are both east coast... we are quite literally central (going east/west). Over an hours drive to see the sea.. in any direction.
There are two likely possibilities:
1. It was flying a routine training mission as has been suggested here already.
2. They're worried that a sleeper cell in the UK might try and take a potshot at them so they're coming in low and approaching from different directions to make it a harder target.
I wonder if its transponder was switched on at the time when it flew over your house? You can check on this flight tracker website here by using the 'Playback' function to rewind time back to when it happened. If its transponder was switched on then the plane will appear visible on the flight tracker which means it was almost certainly option 1. But if the transponder was switched off the plane will not appear on the flight tracker which means there's a possibility that it might have been option 2.
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Could still be what you saw, I doubt they'd only spent 30 mins of travel on such an exercise. Where were they coming from or going to? We don't know.
What gets me is the way it draws attention to a high security operation. Defies logic. There are so many white vans on the road, another on its own wouldn't garner attention. Escorted with plain clothes cars rather than painted dayglow cars, and nobody would look twice.
Seems rather showy for a high security operation as it alerts every Tom Dick and Harry there is something going on.
It's to show us that they have things under control.... or am I just stupid? C theory coming up!!!!!
I wouldn't worry about it myself, it's a showpiece operation. Fun to watch tho.
Maybe all those ufo/drone sightings there last year, were a dry run, and as nothing happened it's the cry wolf scenario.
Trust nothing they say and meanwhile look after you and yours. Live your best life, and be kind to those less able or fortunate than yourself. Live life as you would want to be treated, but still keep your head on a swivel.
Thursday when I was in b&m, there was a foreign looking bloke..you know the sort. He locked onto my eyes and grinned.. I am well over 60, and he was in his twenties. I nodded back, as I don't want to be rude, or interact any more than politely, and went on my way. Started to notice him following me around the ailes. So I stopped at the baby Isle, picked up some wet wipes, he, was there too...Well he's young enough to have kids, but noticed he had no trolly, and didn't pick anything up, then I went to the women's hair and beauty isle, he was there too, looking at nail stuff. He kept looking at me, and was definatly keeping an eye on me.
Hmm, spidy senses picked up even more.
So I moved over to where my friend Ray was and without saying anything about my suspicions, stayed by him, chatting normaly. The chap disappeared at that point after giving me a rather cross glance. I reckon he was after my handbag and /or purse. Which was in my inside coat pocket, along with my phone, so it would have not served him had he been after bag anyway. I just keep tissues, sweets and junk in the hand bag.
He left me alone after that.
Sussed!
There are some really interesting people with really interesting ideas on this forum.
