RAF Flyby

rypt · 13 Sep 2009 at 17:14

Anyone here in Oxford area saw the 5 RAF aircraft flying in formation pretty low earlier today?
Flew right over my street, but I can't ID the aircraft

Don't think they were Harriers, but could have been Typhoons or Tornados
Well they could have been Hawks, but I thought RAF ones were blueish in colour and these were that grey typical aircraft colour
(and pretty sure they were not Gripen)

rypt · 13 Sep 2009 at 17:40

I dunno that's the thing, heard the noise during F1, got up, went to window, looked up ... saw 5 of em flying pretty low and in the V formation

Didn't see them for long enough to identify what they were, I'm not sure the wings were quite that large though

rypt · 13 Sep 2009 at 18:01

They were certainly hauling ass towards either Brize Norton, Fairford or Lyneham.
Never seen them fly over the housing area that low before, do have them train over the fields behind the houses time to time (but we are taking about 1-2miles away from houses usually)

rypt · 13 Sep 2009 at 18:41

kemistry said:
there was a red arrows display in Hull today, couldve been them?

Nah, was military grey colour aircraft and only 5 of em flying in close formation going really fast

rypt · 13 Sep 2009 at 19:40

Andr3w said:
Could have been americans mate

Hmm, do they usually fly around our skies for the fun of it?

rypt · 13 Sep 2009 at 22:38

clade said:
im going to guess that its something to do with blenheim palace international horse trials as it was there last day today. mabey search for fly over in relation to that? for some reason there website only says about horses!

Weren't going to or from Blenheim as, they were going basically along the route the A40 follows into Oxford (roughly) so 90 degrees to Blenheim.

rypt · 13 Sep 2009 at 22:42

Do we have any F15 Eagles in UK either from the Yanks or from our own Air Force? (though don't the Yanks usually fly in a formation of 4 rather than 5?)

rypt · 13 Sep 2009 at 22:55

I swear they were armed as well, or were carrying extra fuel tanks instead of arms as they had plenty of stuff dangling down

Man, why am I the only person on the whole of the internet to notice some fighter jets flying in a close 5-V formation carrying arms or extra fuel

rypt · 13 Sep 2009 at 23:09

Must have been a Tornado then, seem to remember stuff was under the wings

rypt · 14 Sep 2009 at 00:07

Scuzi said:
Did anyone see the F16 flying around north / north east London today?

We don't have any F16s in UK .. not our own or American ones I thought?

rypt · 14 Sep 2009 at 00:31

EdGey said:
why all the sad faces OP?! its awesome!

This is of topic and abit random, but would the US fighters based in the UK engage should the base be attacked for any reason?

Because I can't work out what the planes were or why there were flying lol
And I would hope the US fighters help out and would expect them to really

rypt · 14 Sep 2009 at 18:38

Scuzi said:
Norwegian air force.

And they would be chilling over London why?