Lnyx over Leeds?

Richard A Thackeray · Thu 18 Jun, 2009 11:19 pm

I was in Leeds this afternoon (off to Borders Books & 'Forbidden Planet'), & had parked near 'The City Of Mabgate' pub.The noise made me look up, & what I believe to be a Lynx was circling the city-centre.It disappeared for a few minutes (out of sight/sound?), then reappeared heading roughly north-east over the bus-station , & at a very low altitude (300 feet??)Did anyone else see it?Oh & the time was about 13:20 - 13:30

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 18 Jun, 2009 11:28 pm

RichT wrote: I was in Leeds this afternoon (off to Borders Books & 'Forbidden Planet'), & had parked near 'The City Of Mabgate' pub.The noise made me look up, & what I believe to be a Lynx was circling the city-centre.It disappeared for a few minutes (out of sight/sound?), then reappeared heading roughly north-east over the bus-station , & at a very low altitude (300 feet??)Did anyone else see it?Oh & the time was about 13:20 - 13:30 They are one of the fairly regular visitors, with others, to the LGY Helepad Rich - he stayed there just a few minutes today before tryint to take the roof off my near-by, high building as they are prone to do!We were up there one day with a camera hoping to catch him as he went by. Difficult taking pics when you're curled in a ball on the deck trying not to get blown away - they are.....rather powerful(sure he'd seen us and decided to give us a treat!).

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Fri 19 Jun, 2009 1:17 am

It flew over gipton at about 13:30 bloody damn low it was also!was it my imagination or were them guns/bombs on the side??

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Fri 19 Jun, 2009 9:02 am

No Brandy, you weren't imagining it. They were guns!

Richard A Thackeray · Fri 19 Jun, 2009 11:33 am

chameleon wrote: They are one of the fairly regular visitors, with others, to the LGY Helepad Rich - he stayed there just a few minutes today before tryint to take the roof off my near-by, high building as they are prone to do! In another thread somewhere, on a similar topic, I related the fact that Tony - one of our Consultants, used to work at LGI (as have a few of them on 'rotation'), & he still swears blind that he saw an Apache on the heli-padHe freely admits that seeing all that armoury pointing at him (he was in an adjacent building) made him almost soil his scrubs. chameleon wrote: We were up there one day with a camera hoping to catch him as he went by. Difficult taking pics when you're curled in a ball on the deck trying not to get blown away - they are.....rather powerful If the Air-Ambulance is unavailable, or undergoing servicing, sometimes we get a RAF Rescue Sea-King arriving.Now the down-draft from one of those is impressive!!!!!!!Click on pic to open (6 images)We even asked whether it was possible to fly as a 'NHS Authorised Observer'."Yes", if the Trust would allow us & meet insurance/H&S requirements.We could fly, BUT, not over open water, or at nightOn a more traditional note, it was nice to see that despite all the high-tech GPS equipment, good old Ordnance Survey 'LandRanger' maps were still to be seen at the navigators positionOne of the Charge-Nurses & myself are awaiting a reply to our request to management** I have been told, but can't find a corroborating witness that a Chinook once landed on our pad.So, at the moment, in the words of Victor Meldrew......... "I don't believe it!"