Saw some helicopters this morning,(PIC HEAVY)

[Retired Member southey]

Thought some of you might be interested in this, we wnt to watch the rotary packet leave for the Royal Diamond Jubilee fly past this morning


Lynx MK7

Apahe, Lynx, Navy lynx and a Sea king,

Chinooks, seakings, merlins,

Chinook, Puma,

The best bit, Apache, Bell 212, Lynx and Gazelle,

Apache

Bell 212,

The boy! Lynx Mk 7

A Gazelle

 

[Retired Member southey]

Lancaster!!!!! COOL!!!

Spitfires

 

[Peteo]

Some money's worth by there.. the Apache looks a beast! Read allot about it during conflict, glad to be on the British side of that war..

 

[geordienemisis]

Thanks for the upload brings back some good memories of days back in the green. Never had a chance to see the Apache in action, but travelled in most of the others minus the Sea King. Had to land a couple of Chinooks at Deverral Barracks in Edinburgh they certainly throw a lot of Sh*t about when landing on hard or loose ground. Arh the happy memories.

 

[John Fenna]

I am not sure that I understand the camo and orange colourscheme of the Griffin....

 

[Retired Member southey]

It was fantastic to watch, I have a couple of videos too if any ones interested, It was nice to sit back and watch instead of rushing about,

 

[Retired Member southey]

I am not sure that I understand the camo and orange colourscheme of the Griffin....

Its used primarily for training in the jungles , so has high vis body parts to help visual id either against the canopy while flying or to help id if stooffed in

 

[launditch1]

Theres been a couple of Apaches hovering about near where i live.Great to watch.Slightly disconcerting when the gun swivels round and points at you!!
Me like whirlybirds.

 

[John Fenna]

Its used primarily for training in the jungles , so has high vis body parts to help visual id either against the canopy while flying or to help id if stooffed in

I can cope with hi Viz OR camo ... but the two together... one defeats the object of the other.....

 

[Retired Member southey]

Hahahaha its just a set of vinyl stickers, peals off to look all camo an cool again,

 

[John Fenna]

About this time last year I was watching choppers armed with door mounted Jimpeys trashing "Afgan compounds" on Castlemartin ranges - impressive!
I once had a ride in the back of a Scout (AAC) up in the Cairngorms - from Glenmore Lodge to half way the other side of the mountains (walked back)it was interesting as the doors were off and we sat with our legs dangling over nothing with only a 1" web strap to stop us falling out.....

 

[John Fenna]

Hahahaha its just a set of vinyl stickers, peals off to look all camo an cool again,

Ah - the "sticky backed plastic" school of safety

 

[Retired Member southey]

Why of course, you couldn't have a separate high vis cowling, think of the sticker cutters that would be out of a job!

 

[Retired Member southey]

About this time last year I was watching choppers armed with door mounted Jimpeys trashing "Afgan compounds" on Castlemartin ranges - impressive!
I once had a ride in the back of a Scout (AAC) up in the Cairngorms - from Glenmore Lodge to half way the other side of the mountains (walked back)it was interesting as the doors were off and we sat with our legs dangling over nothing with only a 1" web strap to stop us falling out.....

Its great fun, I count my self very lucky that I work with these aircraft, you end up hanging of them in some magnificent places, though of course some times they deliver you into some crappy places too, but when life gives you lemons, break out the G and T!

 

[Andy BB]

Driving down to Portsmouth this morning, saw this flight of twelve helos in three wings pass across us. Really weird combination of aircraft - even had what looked like a SeaKing with the underslung radome in the group.

 

[Retired Member southey]

Yup, they are they aircraft in my pics matey, they were in three diamonds, Navy, Army and Raf the Seaking with the thing below it is a navy one with a RADAR on a swivel mount , it rotates to hang below when in flight,

 

[Retired Member southey]

The Raf diamond,

The Army diamond,

The navy diamond,

Sea king with raydome on the left,

All three departing,

 

[andyn]

These guys all flew over us earlier, still in formation. Wondered what it was all about. Great noise!

 

[widu13]

I didn't even know we were running any Iroquois! Is it significantly any different to give it the name Griffin, or didn't we like Huey?

Glad to see that after 25 yrs I was still able to ID all of the aircraft in the distant shots before I saw the close ups. (I'm running the forum in newest posts first).

Mind you any fly boys would be safe enough with our AD aircraft recce, not because of the recce ID but because the Rapier missiles hardly ever functioned correctly! (Well that was FS2 just before FS2B was introduced).

 

[Retired Member southey]

Sorry my fault, its a Bell 212 not a griffin, the Griifins are used by the RAF and are Bell 414, we dont run Iroquois,