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bizzare helicopter flying
ruskino80 - 30/1/12 at 09:04 PM

Is there anyone else on here living around ripon,n.yorks who has noticed the army helicopter flying around the city in a large circle for the entire d**n day,9 pm now and still it passes over my house about every 3 minutes.
was thinking of searching for morse code for bugger off and trying it with a torch!

owelly - 30/1/12 at 09:15 PM

Does Dishforth still have a gaggle of Apache helicopters? Could be playing "winged squaddy in an obscenely priced copter" in the style of Top Gear?

snakebelly - 30/1/12 at 09:18 PM

http://www.targeta.co.uk/wheretogo.htm

ruskino80 - 30/1/12 at 09:29 PM

good link! 9.25 and they appear to have headed east,but no lie they have been going round here the WHOLE day!

not sure if there is any active mod stuff at all at dishforth any more,i suspect some sort of training exercise from catterick.

bollocks 9.29 and hes back!!!

[Edited on 30/1/12 by ruskino80]

blakep82 - 30/1/12 at 09:36 PM

must be some sort of excercise. usually get sea kings flying about the river for days on end, winching on and off frigates, that sort of thing. I would imagine its some training thing

snakebelly - 30/1/12 at 09:54 PM

if they are flying a constant pattern then my first guess would have been a radar calibration session but wouldnt have expected that to go on for so long

A1 - 30/1/12 at 10:02 PM

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se7en - 30/1/12 at 10:15 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ruskino80
Is there anyone else on here living around ripon,n.yorks who has noticed the army helicopter flying around the city in a large circle for the entire d**n day,9 pm now and still it passes over my house about every 3 minutes.
was thinking of searching for morse code for bugger off and trying it with a torch!


You ought to live here we had them flying around night and day for over 30 years. Thank goodness for the peace.

snakebelly - 30/1/12 at 10:16 PM

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woolly - 30/1/12 at 10:26 PM

http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html


very good

Simon - 30/1/12 at 10:30 PM

Go outside with a balaclava and point a bit of drainpipe at them, see how quick they disappear (and you have 1/2 million armed police on your door).

Least they'll listen to your complaint, before they lock you up

ATB

Simon

T66 - 30/1/12 at 10:34 PM

Convoy training - vehicle follows etc

spiderman - 31/1/12 at 01:11 AM

Morse code will not work as the military do not teach it any more.

blakep82 - 31/1/12 at 01:26 AM

quote:
Originally posted by spiderman
Morse code will not work as the military do not teach it any more.


hmm, still see navy ships on the river flashing lights at each other i think (well, maybe a few years ago)

RickRick - 1/2/12 at 03:08 PM

How about this practicing for the olympics no less

Link

steve m - 1/2/12 at 03:33 PM

"How about this practicing for the olympics no less "

Wow, is this a new sport ??

cant wait!

David Jenkins - 1/2/12 at 06:33 PM

You could always paint this on your roof!

cal - 2/2/12 at 01:51 PM

The wee off biggles sign back fired a little as we just used it as a nav point on Hawks!!!