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Watched from the top floor of offices above Waterloo station. Unfortunately was in a meeting at the time so had to watch over the boss’s shoulder whilst pretending to still be called concentrating on the presentation... rubbish

No :( we sold them to America for next to nothing after the 2010 SDSR.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/nov/16/harrier-fleet-sold-us-military

wondered about those too.

that was so they can relive the True Lies scene every week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oHg2KHjye8

they're literally designed to kill people, wahey!

Mixed feelings as I watched from St James Park. Impressive, historic and deadly. Took too many photos
https://photos.app.goo.gl/eMMVHNXMtTTAHFWQ8

no got decommissioned a while back I think.
seeing one hover & do a vertical take off was amazing and fucking loud !

#deathfromabove

The Spitfire does look nice tho.

Saw everything from Dakota to C-17 and Tornado to Red Arrows. Perfectly timed going into Sainsburys to miss the modified airliners :)

This is cool (showing the flight paths)

https://twitter.com/RAFBrizeNorton/status/1016734060704608257

This is cool

Somebody needs to do this for the Big Week raids

Curious: to me (in Ipswich) they seemed to be coming from a more southerly direction than usual (Trooping the Colour etc), but that suggests otherwise.

Then you need to get on the blower to the RAF and warn them to check their instruments :)

I suspect it was my "instruments" that were at fault: I was up on a cherry-picker, dodging angry Herring gulls...

Unfortunate you couldn't avoid the modified DC-3.

I liked the look of the A400M, not seen one in the flesh before. Made the Hercules look pretty tiny.

Interestingly there was also a USAF C5 Galaxy about 30 mins before the flypast quite low over London that then disappeared from radar.

Just seen an Osprey and two other helicopters flying over N16 heading south. Trump related?

Yeah it's the Presidential formation from Stansted

Trump related.
They're providing cover over the American Ambassador's residency while Marine 1 delivers the tangerine nightmare.

Just had three V-22s and what looked like Marine 1 fly straight over Fiztrovia. Heading north before bearing west towards Regents.

Ospreys currently rattling the shit out of my windows in Finsbury Park.

The V-22s have circled over N16 twice in the last 10 mins - no wait, make that three times!

And yes, my windows rattled!

Yep, flying in formation North South North continuously at the mo. Normal life seems increasingly militarised these days.

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Watching the planes with a bit of fear, like the start of some alien attack movie.

Yeah its pretty noisy in the flat at the minute.
Some great helicopter spotting though.
Marine 1 just flew past.