Bogus Dave
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« Reply #75 on: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 21:32:00 » |
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You must be really old then Samdy!
I remember seeing/hearing concorde when I was little too |
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #76 on: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 21:37:27 » |
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #77 on: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 22:30:08 » |
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Yeah, but what about the similar noise heard over Norwich yesterday...of course the " powers that be" are going to suggest a rational explanation....but something strange is going on here. Is it a coincidence that all the Gillingham messagebords have disappeared at roughly the same time as it's announced next Sats game will be played in front of no fans? |
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« Reply #78 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 06:41:08 » |
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Just to add to the conspiracy theories, two Typhoon jets were seen escorting a larger jet plane over Norfolk yesterday evening.
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Fuck you Leggett, fuck you.
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« Reply #80 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 07:28:13 » |
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That almost reads like a Newsthump story. A Coventry resident called Gary said: "I thought somebody had thrown a brick at the house." Dave, from Warwick, described the sound as "like sitting on a hard shoulder and a big lorry going past". |
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #81 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 07:38:10 » |
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I've seen a lot of "Sonic boom - yeah, right" type of comments on Twitter and Facebook. What else do people expect it to be? If it was an explosion of some sort, then I'm sure someone would've found the source by now.
I've no doubt it was a Typhoon. Whether the whole Helicopter in distress story is true is another matter.
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« Reply #82 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 07:40:12 » |
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Some geek serving me in the Co-Op last night was waffling on about how it couldn't have been a sonic boom for various reasons. I just switched off and nodded along.
Just scan my fucking bread and milk and let me go home!
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« Reply #83 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 08:02:44 » |
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I remember concorde passing over Ferndale Road (always at the same time, 11 i think) en route to the USofA when i was round my nans as a kid. You could hear it too, but not the sonic boom i didn't think?
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« Reply #84 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 08:14:30 » |
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Clearly a sonic boom. It's a bit of a strange story by the MOD though. How often does a helicopter in trouble result in 2 fighter jets coming to it's aid? Wouldn't be surprised if there something lurking in our airspace that shouldn't have been there.
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #85 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 08:25:10 » |
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TBH, I'd rather have the cock and bull story about a helicopter in distress than be told they averted a mass air strike or the like.
Ignorance is bliss and all that.
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« Reply #86 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 08:37:17 » |
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I hope aliens crash landed.
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #87 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 12:40:52 » |
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I hope aliens crash landed.
I hope Reg's conspiracy theory goes the way of this too. |
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« Reply #88 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 12:47:49 » |
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concorde used to fly heathrow-NYC over my old house in old town at 7.10pm in the evening. again could only see/hear it in summer
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« Reply #89 on: Friday, April 13, 2012, 13:50:43 » |
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I live in Bath and got home just before the Typhoons arrived.They came across Bath at low level and one of them circled the helicopter at low speed and with 90degs of bank.
The helicopter had sent out a signal from box called a transponder which is used by all commercial aircraft to work with Air Traffic Control. If the pilot puts a 4 digit ,which i believe is '7000' it appears on a radar screen as a hijack.
At the same time,a Weather Balloon was at around 5,000' north of Bath. I watched the Typhoons leave Bath and check this out. One of them carried out tight turns around the Balloon. They both departed Westbound shortly afterwards.
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