Minnie_the_Minx
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Well I knew the Air Ambulance did, but didn't realise Chinooks practice for landing there as well
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Well I knew the Air Ambulance did, but didn't realise Chinooks practice for landing there as well
Minnie_the_Minx
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Actually, I did but I forgot.
Here's reports from last year about Army Helicopter trying to land there
http://www.google.co.uk/#q=helicopter+and+ruskin&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=mbl&ei=VKkPTq2ONou3hAfYl_j3DQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=9&sqi=2&ved=0CBYQ_AUoCA&prmdo=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=e7a037fa67226fdc&biw=911&bih=413
Here's reports from last year about Army Helicopter trying to land there
http://www.google.co.uk/#q=helicopter+and+ruskin&hl=en&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=mbl&ei=VKkPTq2ONou3hAfYl_j3DQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=9&sqi=2&ved=0CBYQ_AUoCA&prmdo=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=e7a037fa67226fdc&biw=911&bih=413
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Indeed they do. Here's a pic from last Sunday.
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Minnie_the_Minx
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Yes, but what about Chinooks?!
Minnie_the_Minx
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Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Waddington Air Show?
http://www.waddingtonairshow.co.uk/
http://www.waddingtonairshow.co.uk/
Instead of concentrating on the Tour de France I've been doing helicopter speculation.
So. Your helicopters probably weren't going to Waddington because it's to the west of London. They were more likely to be going from bases in the south west, e.g. Middle Wallop (Army Apaches) or Odiham (RAF Chinooks) in Hampshire, to bases in the east, e.g. Wattisham in Essex.
To speculate a bit further you'd need to tell us which models of helicopter they were. But I doubt you want to become a plane spotter.
They generally stick to these routes:
The CAA has some handy stats: http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/1346/2011...tatisticsForCAAWebsiteUpToMayIncApril2011.pdf Reading between the lines I'd say that some days there are 20 or 30 military helicopter operations in London. I'm assuming that nearly all the fights which aren't listed as HEMS, Police or Battersea heliport are military. (Civilian helicopters aren't allowed to land anywhere in London except Battersea.)
Flights which don't stick to the routes are listed. So you can almost have a guess how many of the military flights were training ones over parks etc. For example, on May 31 there were 70 operations. 50 of those were HEMS, Police or Battersea, so 20 were probably military. 36 flights didn't stick to the routes. HEMS and Police would have accounted for 26 of those, leaving 10 others. Those would either have been military ones, or civilian helicopters with permission to deviate from the routes. (The latter are allowed to do this if they have two engines.)
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Three miles away from Lincoln is to the west of London? I don't think so.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Instead of concentrating on the Tour de France I've been doing helicopter speculation.
So. Your helicopters probably weren't going to Waddington because it's to the west of London. They were more likely to be going from bases in the south west, e.g. Middle Wallop (Army Apaches) or Odiham (RAF Chinooks) in Hampshire, to bases in the east, e.g. Wattisham in Essex.
To speculate a bit further you'd need to tell us which models of helicopter they were. But I doubt you want to become a plane spotter.
They generally stick to these routes:
The CAA has some handy stats: http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/1346/2011...tatisticsForCAAWebsiteUpToMayIncApril2011.pdf Reading between the lines I'd say that some days there are 20 or 30 military helicopter operations in London. I'm assuming that nearly all the fights which aren't listed as HEMS, Police or Battersea heliport are military. (Civilian helicopters aren't allowed to land anywhere in London except Battersea.)
Flights which don't stick to the routes are listed. So you can almost have a guess how many of the military flights were training ones over parks etc. For example, on May 31 there were 70 operations. 50 of those were HEMS, Police or Battersea, so 20 were probably military. 36 flights didn't stick to the routes. HEMS and Police would have accounted for 26 of those, leaving 10 others. Those would either have been military ones, or civilian helicopters with permission to deviate from the routes. (The latter are allowed to do this if they have two engines.)
Pumas also operate from Odiham.
It's just to the left of London on Google Maps.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=RAF...3.625095,-0.532837&sspn=1.215136,4.015503&z=6 But you're going to want lat and long aren't you? Waddington is at 53° 9′ 58″ N, 0° 31′ 26″ W and Trafalgar Square is 51° 30' 27" N, longitude 0° 7' 40" W. I have no idea what that means.ericjarvis
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It's just to the left of London on Google Maps.
What it means is that Waddington Air Show is held at the famous Waddington airfield just south of Lincoln and pretty much 175 miles due north of London.
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Added about 20 minutes to my journey this morning.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
i cycled past about 6.30am this morning and there was about a foot of water across Brixton Road just outside the tesco metro - a massive foot-wide hole in the ground with water pissing straight out and about 7 water board vans in attendance. At times like that you do feel like a smug cyclist....
if my phone wasnt fucked i could have posted it up here with photos and all
sorry peepsmiss minnie
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ShiftyBagLady
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Haha. Flat white, Anzac biscuit and dp. To have in.
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I was chatting to them about that. Apparently the guy stuck on big headphones and was rocking on a stool while he flicked between YouTube and bareback .com (I just looked. It's not NSFW!)
That's pretty fucked up. I'm in there a lot with my baby boy. Not the kind of thing I want my nipper to see over dad's shoulder.
Did Federation coffee ask him to stop watching the pr0n?
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Yeah. It's crazy the way that small, independent coffee shops attract all those plug-hogging, gay porn aficionados.
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Three speed vibrator, some kind of cock oscillator and quite possibly a hairdryer.
Meanwhile, the mad shouty woman has just gone past Moorlands Estate waking up everyone around.
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