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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Colemans Left Hook on June 30, 2022, 01:15:56 am
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just heard that for the second day running Coningsby had the highest temperature in the uk - see below to see the "official" met - offices statement
so what you say :headbang:
has anyone heard of RAF Coningsby
THE STATION
RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire is one of two RAF Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) Stations which protect UK airspace. RAF Lossiemouth is the other.
RAF Coningsby is home to two frontline, combat-ready squadrons and is the training station for Typhoon pilots.
Almost 3,000 Service Personnel, Civil Servants, and contractors work at RAF Coningsby.
Around 10 am yesterday they had three planes airbound going over Lincolnshire Norfolk etc creating deafening noises - never known it so bad
one was a Typhoon another a Eurofighter and a Wolf... something or other (hopefully Donnywolf isn't moonlighting as the pilot)
so just think about all the "artificial" heat being generated prior to take offs
perhaps someone needs to invest in some "purchasing" some common sense (yes there is a shortage of that at the moment) and perhaps move the weather station to a more "sensible" position
or are we asking too much for someone to act "in the heat of the moment"
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Was the weather station recording a different temperature at 10am than during the rest of the day when there wasn't any planes about? If not...load of b*llocks.
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CLH
“one was a Typhoon another a Eurofighter and a Wolf... something or other (hopefully Donnywolf isn't moonlighting as the pilot)”
Do you know that the Typhoon and Eurofighter are one and the same thing?
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RAF conningsby is also the home to the battle of Britain memorial flight.
It would be pretty high up on russias hit list if grid forbid it ever came to it.
Along with lakenheath. And Lossiemouth.
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The house that I live in was bought from an old couple that lived in Coningsby
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CLH
“one was a Typhoon another a Eurofighter and a Wolf... something or other (hopefully Donnywolf isn't moonlighting as the pilot)”
Do you know that the Typhoon and Eurofighter are one and the same thing?
i just remembered one of the planes had the name wolf in it (surely donnywolf wasn't the pilot) can you supply the rest of the name please ?
meanwhile
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62109944
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CLH
“one was a Typhoon another a Eurofighter and a Wolf... something or other (hopefully Donnywolf isn't moonlighting as the pilot)”
Do you know that the Typhoon and Eurofighter are one and the same thing?
i just remembered one of the planes had the name wolf in it (surely donnywolf wasn't the pilot) can you supply the rest of the name please ?
meanwhile
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62109944
I think the call sign is Wolfhound, but there ain’t any up at the mo to check, it is Sunday and the RAF dont often work weekends or after 12 on a friday come to that. If you down load the app Flightradar24 (FR24) you can sometimes spot them flying over the North Sea and the Wash area or search for the by using ZK3 in the search box. Look out for C/S Chaos, Vandal to name a couple.
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CLH
“one was a Typhoon another a Eurofighter and a Wolf... something or other (hopefully Donnywolf isn't moonlighting as the pilot)”
Do you know that the Typhoon and Eurofighter are one and the same thing?
i just remembered one of the planes had the name wolf in it (surely donnywolf wasn't the pilot) can you supply the rest of the name please ?
meanwhile
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62109944
Oh good, the weather will get cooler again now the planes have left! :silly:
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CLH
“one was a Typhoon another a Eurofighter and a Wolf... something or other (hopefully Donnywolf isn't moonlighting as the pilot)”
Do you know that the Typhoon and Eurofighter are one and the same thing?
i just remembered one of the planes had the name wolf in it (surely donnywolf wasn't the pilot) can you supply the rest of the name please ?
meanwhile
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62109944
I think the call sign is Wolfhound, but there ain’t any up at the mo to check, it is Sunday and the RAF dont often work weekends or after 12 on a friday come to that. If you down load the app Flightradar24 (FR24) you can sometimes spot them flying over the North Sea and the Wash area or search for the by using ZK3 in the search box. Look out for C/S Chaos, Vandal to name a couple.
youCLH
“one was a Typhoon another a Eurofighter and a Wolf... something or other (hopefully Donnywolf isn't moonlighting as the pilot)”
Do you know that the Typhoon and Eurofighter are one and the same thing?
i just remembered one of the planes had the name wolf in it (surely donnywolf wasn't the pilot) can you supply the rest of the name please ?
meanwhile
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62109944
I think the call sign is Wolfhound, but there ain’t any up at the mo to check, it is Sunday and the RAF dont often work weekends or after 12 on a friday come to that. If you down load the app Flightradar24 (FR24) you can sometimes spot them flying over the North Sea and the Wash area or search for the by using ZK3 in the search box. Look out for C/S Chaos, Vandal to name a couple.
I had a good watch of all the Fly past for Queens 70th recently
Watching them gathering out over Wash and North Sea and some mini stacks before they commenced their run into The Mall
Good to watch what the next one or group would be .
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I was in North Notts this afternoon not far from East Mids airport.
I caught a glimpse of what I thought was the Lancaster quite low down and then some nearby trees blocked my view.
Anyone know whether the Lanc was in that region today.
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North Notts and East Mids Airport don’t go in the same sentence
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Is 12 miles a big distance?
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North Notts is mainly Worksop,Retford,Harworth etc
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Is 12 miles a big distance?
It is if you’ve got to walk it, not so if you’re flying
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East Midlands airport to Worksop 44.3 miles , to Retford 53.9 miles both by the M1 not as the crow flies
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Now it has the all time UK Record Temp @ 40.3
A few more to declare yet like DSA so they could lose it again
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Now it has the all time UK Record Temp @ 40.3
A few more to declare yet like DSA so they could lose it again
its obvious they reved up one of their typhoo fighters to tip the temperature up as they sat drinking their cups of tea (naturally typhoo tips) :facepalm:
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Lincs county council were out measuring road surface temps yesterday to determine if sand spreading was needed. In Timberland near z Lincoln they measured a road surface of 56c . Ashphalt melts at 50
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Had a wasted trip up to Seamer tonight, had an assessment to carry out on a working crew at Muston near Filey, the rail temp was still over 58c, wasted calls all afternoon to see if this was going to get knocked but they insisted it would go ahead!
Rail temps in that region turn the rails into soft spaghetti when trains run over it at speed, NWR had 20mph ESR on it all day as well.
Proper bunch of cowboys.
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Tattersall Lakes can advertise now " holiday in the UKs hottest spot"
... and get great views * of the Eurofighters thrown in for free
* You also get to hear them quite well too !