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USAF activity over Grantham

#1 Post by Sisemen » Tue Nov 17, 2015 1:57 pm

My daughter is reporting lots of USAF F15 activity over/near Grantham with, apparently 1 v 1 engagements. Anybody got any gen?
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#2 Post by Airborne Aircrew » Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:35 pm

I probably shouldn't suggest the bleeding obvious... =))

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#3 Post by 500N » Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:38 pm

Airborne Aircrew wrote:I probably shouldn't suggest the bleeding obvious... =))

Sorry... ;)



If one aircraft has a Red star on it, WW III has started !

If not, they are practising for it.
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#4 Post by CharlieOneSix » Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:39 pm

Sorry, haven't got any gen but isn't it good that on this site unlike TOP you don't get some bumptious prig immediately jumping down your throat saying 'if you need to ask then you don't need to know'. That happened to me some years ago when I asked on the Military Forum what an AWACS might be doing for over 3 hours in a racetrack pattern over my house at about FL300.
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#5 Post by 500N » Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:41 pm

Charlie

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#6 Post by Sisemen » Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:45 am

I wasn’t asking for the plans for WW3 merely a question as to why Grantham? It’s certainly not a usual place for that sort of activity and it had Granthamites all abuzz - apparently. So maybe there might have been an airshow or Defence sales show or something.

BTW Charlie that happened at post 2 courtesy of Airborne!!
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#7 Post by Airborne Aircrew » Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:01 pm

Oh come now... That was a joke as indicated by that little smiley thingy rolling around at the end of the sentence... :)
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#8 Post by Sisemen » Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:16 pm

Don't worry - I wasn't getting stressed by it :-ss
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#9 Post by Airborne Aircrew » Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:29 pm

Phew... I'm pretty picky about who I want to stress out... :D
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#10 Post by Sisemen » Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:53 pm

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/l ... witterfeed

Aha! The local press are onto it.
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#11 Post by 4mastacker » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:44 pm

siseman wrote:

I wasn’t asking for the plans for WW3 merely a question as to why Grantham? It’s certainly not a usual place for that sort of activity and it had Granthamites all abuzz - apparently


The USAF were merely reminding the locals of what it was like here a few years ago when the UK had an air force to speak of.
Some of my neighbours made some disparaging comments about the noise so I asked them what, exactly, was their problem. No 1 grandson thought it was great watching the jets twist and turn.

Funny thing is, only one person seen the Vulcan, allegedly, do a barrel roll on a crystal clear day, yet the whole bloody town saw these F15s doing their thing when the place was covered in cloud. I just wish it happened more often.
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#12 Post by 500N » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:48 pm

4mastacker wrote:Some of my neighbours made some disparaging comments about the noise
so I asked them what, exactly, was their problem.



"That is PART of the reason we don't speak Russian now, following on from the RAF who
helped stop us speaking German" ;)

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#13 Post by 4mastacker » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:56 pm

Sisemen wrote:http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/local/fighter-jets-seen-in-dogfight-over-grantham-1-7072386?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Aha! The local press are onto it.


Careful. That rag broke the "news" about the Vulcan being rolled about three weeks after the alleged event. The BBC and the national scandal sheets only picked up on it after that.
The bloke that reported it seems to be the only one who did see it and yet there are plenty of folk who didn't see it.
Mrs 4ma seen the Vulcan that day as it passed overhead and she didn't see anything out of the ordinary - and before anyone says anything, she was stationed at Scampton in the closing days of the V-force so she knows what a Vulcan looks like.
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#14 Post by 500N » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:58 pm

I more often than not cross check things I read in the Media by "Googling"
because I just don't trust them.
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#15 Post by rgbrock1 » Thu Nov 19, 2015 1:25 pm

500N wrote:
4mastacker wrote:Some of my neighbours made some disparaging comments about the noise
so I asked them what, exactly, was their problem.



"That is PART of the reason we don't speak Russian now, following on from the RAF who
helped stop us speaking German" ;)


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#16 Post by Tom Joad » Sat Nov 21, 2015 12:07 am

500N wrote:
4mastacker wrote:Some of my neighbours made some disparaging comments about the noise
so I asked them what, exactly, was their problem.



"That is PART of the reason we don't speak Russian now, following on from the RAF who
helped stop us speaking German" ;)

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