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Fighter jets escorting plane over London
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Posted by: GarySargent

Did anyone else see a passenger plane flying low over London about 13:00 today with two jet fighters flying either side of it?! :eek:

Posted by: sjp

no but i heard a *very* low level set of jet engines doing more than the normal manoeuvering over Tower Hill around 6am. couldn't see a lot due to cloud but i don't think this was the normal "coming up the river" approach.

you back down here???

Posted by: GarySargent

Been here for months!

Posted by: dallardice

Yes Gary I saw this around Lloyds' of London at about the time you said. Two of us in the office saw it - I'm glad someone else did - was beginning to think I'd gone mad.

There's a posting on uk.local.london too. I've been listening to the radio on and off this afternoon (LBC, LBC News and BBC London) but there have been no reports...

Posted by: pgogborn

"Coastal Command" ceremonial fly-past.

Probably Nimrod from RAF Kinloss, accompanied by two Tornados from RAF Marham.

Nimrod is a marine reconnaissance rather than a passenger jet, although the air-frame is based on the ill-fated civilian Comet.

Posted by: GarySargent

Doh! Well done pgogborn.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2654688

Posted by: sjp

quote:
Originally posted by GarySargent
Been here for months!

same place/area as last time?

Posted by: GarySargent

quote:
Originally posted by sjp
same place/area as last time?

Yep!

Posted by: sjp

beer, curry?

back in America Square - near the Minories

Posted by: GarySargent

Up for meeting any fellow TiVo people for beer (go home to Leeds though Fri night till Sun evening - London city centre is dead at the weekends!).

Yes my flat is on the Minories - well remembered!

Posted by: sjp

actually it's me that's back in America Square... remembered you being not far from there though.

I work till 8pm so it'll have to be a day off (after 12 hours all I want to do is sleep), will see what i'm doing next week but if others want to start thinking about it i'm off wed & thu.

the city aint dead at weekends, you just don't know where to look - there must be at least 10 operators that i know of working weekends. when we all go out to look for food at the same time it can look quite busy :)

stuart

Posted by: manolan

Would also love to meet up with fellow TiVo people. Am currently sitting in snowy NY, but will be back in Blighty next week. Wed or Thu look OK at the moment, but I won't know definitively until next week.

Posted by: manolan

Am back in UK and free Wed or Thu.

Does anyone want to get together?