Chinook over Dover
- 13 March 2009 20:3317292A Chinook passed low over Victoria Park this afternoon then flew over the centre of Dover and round behind the Western Heights. Shortly afterwards it returned, flying past the end of Vicky Park when I was able to get the snap below. Stooging about on a jolly?
It is very frustrating hearing a plane go overhead and rushing to the window to see it is already a tiny dot in the distance. Particularly so with jet fighters flying low along the line of the harbour, by the time you hear the roar they have gone. It never fails to amaze me that man can have invented something that someone can sit in and throw around the sky at two or three times the speed of sound.
An earlier flypast over Victoria Park. Looks like early post WW1, similar to a Vickers Vimy.
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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13 March 2009 20:4417293ed,saw exactly the same culprit,shook the house as it chuged its way over aycliffe.
- 14 March 2009 10:3317352It was flying so low over Aycliffe you could see the people inside.Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour - 14 March 2009 11:3617359It thundered over the Gateway too in earth quake mode. The cups rattled and the window panes shook. Not a military device for sneaking up on enemy positions, as it moves with the grace and volume of a heard of thundering elephants. Although Im probably being unjust to elephants there!
Good pictures Ed.email: dover7@msn.com - 14 March 2009 14:5417363What a great sight, yes they are a bit loud though
