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I seen two small fighter planes fly over my house in bidston today going towards new brighton all sounds fishy to me

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RAF Chinook helicopters on training exercises in Liverpool
Liverpool Daily Post
May 10 2011

TWO RAF Chinooks spotted over Liverpool yesterday were on training exercises.

The support helicopters dropped into the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Thomas Drive, Broad Green before heading off to Liverpool John Lennon Airport to refuel.

Crews were practising landing in build-up areas at various helipads across the North West as part of Afghanistan training.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk...g-exercises-in-liverpool-92534-28664274/


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saw the two at 6pm over Birkenhead yesterday!

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grin yes i heard tht helicopter too , I Lv helicopters i ran out to see it!(& I wave to pilots if they low enough grin ) but nowere above....made me thnk it's a chinnook, Last week i saw some kind of Jet flying 'pretty low' over Mersey..

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Originally Posted by Sallybear
Tornadoes and other jets are constantly flying down the Mersey, worked on Water St until April this year, pretty much one a day or more. By the way, working on Old Hall St at present, just by passport office, and Chinook just flew over between the buildings.


sally - i think those ones you saw are the hawk trainer planes as i see them every day as i work on the waterfront. sometimes 2 or 3 a day.

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apparantly the river Tigris in Iraq is very similar to the Mersey (width wise I think) and so the tornados used to use it for training before they went out there!

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You will probably see a few around the North West - they are using the north/south low level corridor between Manchester and Liverpool airport control zones. Its a narrow corridor (airway) which allows light aircraft & helicopters to transit the area without getting involved with all the commercial air traffic in the area. The corridor has a max altitude of 1250 feet, so anything using it appears fairly low!!

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I KNOW SOUTHPORT IS A FEW MILES AWAY FROM THE WIRRAL BUT THE SOUTHPORT AIR SHOW IS NEXT MONTH,AND I RECKON THE CHINOOKS AND TORNADO'S ARE GETTING READY FOR IT AS THEY WILL 100% BE THERE NEXT MONTH AND THERE BOUND TO BE DOING FLY-BY'S AND THE SURROUNDING AREA'S.I DO RECCOMEND PEOPLE TO VISIT THE AIR SHOW ITS BRILLIANT AND THE KIDS WOULD LOVE IT,THAT NEW FIGHTER JET THE EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON IS AN EYE CATCHER WATCH THIS BEAST IN THE AIR DOESNT HALF GO AT SOME TREMENDOUS SPEED *NOTE* DONT BLINK U WILL MISS IT LOL.THE FAMOUS RED ARROWS WILL BE THERE AND MANY OTHER FIGHTER JETS/HELICOPTERS,WIRRAL SHOULD DO THERE OWN AIR SHOW NEW BRIGHTON PROMENADE IS BIG ENOUGH.WE SHOUD DO A FACEBOOK PAGE OR A WIKIWIRRAL PAGE TO BACK AN AIR SHOW FOR THE WIRRAL? ANY SUGGESTIONS?

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Are you stood by a helicopter now Clemo?

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i seen them when i was walking home from work, i think they were dropping aid packages such as rice, water and clothing to the effected areas in birkenhead, the army are refusing to land incase of infection. reports suggest that some areas of seacombe were blocked off by police barriers through fear of mass crowding appealing for help. the army have appologised and radio messages have been broadcasted to indicate that these forgotten areas will be included on the next run dropping off supplies, tensions have calmed for now!

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i seen them when i was walking home from work, i think they were dropping aid packages such as rice, water and clothing to the effected areas in birkenhead, the army are refusing to land incase of infection. reports suggest that some areas of seacombe were blocked off by police barriers through fear of mass crowding appealing for help. the army have appologised and radio messages have been broadcasted to indicate that these forgotten areas will be included on the next run dropping off supplies, tensions have calmed for now!


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