James
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 05:13 PM |
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Spotted: Apache!
Am I in Baghdad or something???
Just had 3 Apache Helicopters fly over my house.
Bet they don't pass the SVA sound limits!!! 
Very cool looking indeed! 
Shame we couldn't be using our own British designed equivalent but oh well! I certainly wouldn't want to be facing the wrong end of one!!!
Cheers,
James
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jlparsons
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 05:17 PM |
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Maybe brown pissed off the americans and it's time for some regime change...
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twybrow
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 05:19 PM |
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We design/build more bits than you think in the UK...!
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splitrivet
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 05:29 PM |
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I'd keep your head down chances are they are yanks who took the wrong turn past Bagdad.
Cheers,
Bob
I used to be a Werewolf but I'm alright nowwoooooooooooooo
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scootz
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 05:35 PM |
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I've been in one of them... ugly brutes!
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PaulBuz
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 06:42 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scootz
I've been in one of them... ugly brutes!
I think they're awesome looking.
In a pure, engineered for purpose sort of way.
ATB
Paul
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 07:43 PM |
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We get them over our house every week - noisy beggars!
They trundle along at about 20mph in a line of 8 or 10, sometimes in a 'holding loop', presumably waiting for a call into action
somewhere. This means we get their infernal noise for 15 minutes! 
[Edited on 24/2/09 by David Jenkins]
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Simon
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 08:07 PM |
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We get Chinooks flying over fairly regularly.
I keep trying to get the youf that works for us to go into the field holding a drain pipe and see how alert the copter chaps are
ATB
Simon
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DarrenW
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 08:07 PM |
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We get them over our way a lot too.
This week so far we have had at least 6 chinooks go past - and they are V. NOISY. Again impressive though.
Sometimes see a spitfire too.
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Danozeman
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 08:34 PM |
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I get them over the top regularly like David. We live near wattisham airfield where theyr based.
Infact i saw 4 today.
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 09:37 PM |
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Have seen them over Cambridge a few times , also see loads of Spitfires etc at work Duxford is only a couple of miles down the road.
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BenB
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| posted on 24/2/09 at 10:45 PM |
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I once drove from Lincoln to Nottingham in the dawn light watching the Red Arrows practice overhead. Almost crashed twice  Amazing.........
Should all the yank copter be doing something more useful than "training exercises".......
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James
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| posted on 25/2/09 at 12:04 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by twybrow
We design/build more bits than you think in the UK...!
Just seen this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAH-64
You're right.
Seems like Boeing supply us an apache Airfix kit!
Cheers,
James
[Edited on 25/2/09 by James]
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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