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Unfortunately I live in Newbold Verdon so bloody miles from any sort of airfield and dont often get to see much of this stuff. we often get Chinooks flying over and about 3 months ago there was a military plane, old(ish) looking, two big propellers flying at about 200-300ft over the Village towards Desford, I've seen it a few times too, no idea what it is or where it's from though!

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Unfortunately I live in Newbold Verdon so bloody miles from any sort of airfield and dont often get to see much of this stuff. we often get Chinooks flying over and about 3 months ago there was a military plane, old(ish) looking, two big propellers flying at about 200-300ft over the Village towards Desford, I've seen it a few times too, no idea what it is or where it's from though!

Chinooks are a weekly occurrence from our back garden, fantastic bit of kit.

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Slightly off topic, but has anyone ever heard of a plane shooting itself down with its own bullets? Pretty bizarre.

A post-accident investigation discovered that Attridge had hit no bird.  Instead,  he had overtaken and run down the fire from his own guns. A inert 20-millimeter bullet, typically used in practice, had gone through his windshield. Another round had hit the right engine intake, and a third had punctured the nose. The engine's inlet guide vanes were also struck, and lodged in the first compressor stage of the engine, was found a battered

If the airplane had kept its original course, it would have passed by them, but its steepened dive path made it intersect the bullet's down-curving path. When it hit them, they must have been moving so slowly that the airplane overtook them at a good fraction of its own air speed, which was about as fast as many a newly fired bullet.

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Tiger138260.htm

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Slightly off topic, but has anyone ever heard of a plane shooting itself down with its own bullets? Pretty bizarre.

A post-accident investigation discovered that Attridge had hit no bird. Instead, he had overtaken and run down the fire from his own guns. A inert 20-millimeter bullet, typically used in practice, had gone through his windshield. Another round had hit the right engine intake, and a third had punctured the nose. The engine's inlet guide vanes were also struck, and lodged in the first compressor stage of the engine, was found a battered

If the airplane had kept its original course, it would have passed by them, but its steepened dive path made it intersect the bullet's down-curving path. When it hit them, they must have been moving so slowly that the airplane overtook them at a good fraction of its own air speed, which was about as fast as many a newly fired bullet.

http://www.check-six...Tiger138260.htm

Didn't know Ireland had an airforce.

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:thumbup: Amazing sound.

Would also be amazing if they dig up the dozens of pristine Spitfires buried in Burma at the end of the war. In theory they should be able to assemble them and fly them as they were apparently greased and sealed in crates

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9638613/Revealed-the-wealthy-backer-helping-the-hunt-for-the-buried-Spitfires-of-Burma.html

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DANGEROUS TIGER

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Oh wow! I just love going to Duxford to the aircraft museum, and too the air show.

My two favourites aircraft are the Spitfire as a fighter, and the good old Lancaster as a bomber.

Mu Uncle flew Hurricanes in WW2, but got shot down over Burma, and ended up working on the infamous railway. He survived the war, however.

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