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Propeller Plane Circling Heathrow

charlton_hero
charlton_hero Posts: 4,667
edited February 2016 in Not Sports Related
I'm currently living over in Twickenham which is right underneath the Heathrow flight path. Planes usually stop flying over at 11pm. However last night a small (but noisy) propeller plane was circling Heathrow from around 1am through to 4am, coming over my house every 20 minutes or so.

Did anyone else hear this or know what was going on? I can't see anything about it on the web. It kept me awake all night.
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  • Penfolds Perm
    Penfolds Perm Posts: 550
    Also heard this overhead in Welling about half Twelve. Very low and noisy as if it was about to come down. Unusual at that time, normally its the Police Chopper you can hear.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    It must be aliens.
  • Missed It
    Missed It Posts: 2,734
    Its probably the Islander that flies out of RAF Northolt, although nobody is allowed to tell you what it's doing!
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    The old bill use Cesna aircraft when intercepting phone calls
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Its Roly flying over trying to find The Valley.
  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    It's a Brittan Norman Islander, M15 use it to intercept phone calls and wifi recording voices that GCHQ then analyse.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Probably means you have some dirty jihadi bombers making stuff right next door, nothing to worry about
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    They're after you Hero - you dont have a long beard, do you?
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    At a guess maybe a thermal imaging survey. If not that then the Russians are looking to invade Chiswick.
  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    Ooooh the plot thickens, I'm on my phone so can't do the link but apparently Gareth Williams, the spy who was found dead inside a holdall in his house was the agent that designed all the equipment on the planes and the wide band listening devices used and is one theory about why he was killed.
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  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    Abit more about listening in on terrorists
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Best spy story ever that one, we were told he got in the bag himself and padlocked it,

    Really makes you wonder who and why they left him to be found, or what happened to the people that put him in the bag that meant they weren't able to hide him
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Those pesky Lizards who invaded 70,000 years ago and took control of the illminati's bodies are at it again.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,921
    nth london addick said:

    Best spy story ever that one, we were told he got in the bag himself and padlocked it,

    Really makes you wonder who and why they left him to be found, or what happened to the people that put him in the bag that meant they weren't able to hide him

    You blatantly leave people to be found, to make a point to others. If the wanted him hid, he'd have been buried in a hole
  • unjpc49427
    unjpc49427 Posts: 97
    It's not the UN come for Assange is it?
  • MemberNo.?
    MemberNo.? Posts: 25
    It was really low over me in south Kensington last night
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,146
    nth london addick said:

    Best spy story ever that one, we were told he got in the bag himself and padlocked it,

    Really makes you wonder who and why they left him to be found, or what happened to the people that put him in the bag that meant they weren't able to hide him

    Well I don't know about the "best". The BBC made a drama out of that story last autumn. London Spy. I thought it was the biggest load of bollocks they've made for a long time.


  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    shine166 said:

    nth london addick said:

    Best spy story ever that one, we were told he got in the bag himself and padlocked it,

    Really makes you wonder who and why they left him to be found, or what happened to the people that put him in the bag that meant they weren't able to hide him

    You blatantly leave people to be found, to make a point to others. If the wanted him hid, he'd have been buried in a hole
    No way you don't leave the mess behind something happened to whoever was going to put that bag somewhere,

    Or he honestly thought being the world's best hide and seek player would help him hide from the ruskis or jihadis
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,921
    nth london addick said:

    shine166 said:

    nth london addick said:

    Best spy story ever that one, we were told he got in the bag himself and padlocked it,

    Really makes you wonder who and why they left him to be found, or what happened to the people that put him in the bag that meant they weren't able to hide him

    You blatantly leave people to be found, to make a point to others. If the wanted him hid, he'd have been buried in a hole
    No way you don't leave the mess behind something happened to whoever was going to put that bag somewhere,

    Or he honestly thought being the world's best hide and seek player would help him hide from the ruskis or jihadis

    Well with that logic, why didn't the Russians just snatch litvinenko rather than inflicting a slow highly visible death ?
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    Welcome to my abstract fact of the day. The original post talks of a propeller plane. The focus for me isn't a propeller plane, but the H-4 Hercules or the Spruce Goose. The Spruce Goose was the brain child of Howard Hughes, the Aviator. Howard a successful businessman built the Spruce Goose to be the largest ever plane to take flight. It took one flight in 1947, but never reached the heights it was supposed to as military passenger plane.

    Join me again tomorrow.
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  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,723
    edited February 2016
    from propeller planes at night to Russian spies to Howard Hughes in 20 posts. only on Charlton life.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Because it wasn't the ruskis
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    cabbles said:

    Welcome to my abstract fact of the day. The original post talks of a propeller plane. The focus for me isn't a propeller plane, but the H-4 Hercules or the Spruce Goose. The Spruce Goose was the brain child of Howard Hughes, the Aviator. Howard a successful businessman built the Spruce Goose to be the largest ever plane to take flight. It took one flight in 1947, but never reached the heights it was supposed to as military passenger plane.

    Join me again tomorrow.

    The Spruce Goose was built and (I think) is still housed in Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles, near to where I grew up. Join me again tomorrow for more "unnecessary sub-stories to pointless facts."
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,118
    shine166 said:

    nth london addick said:

    shine166 said:

    nth london addick said:

    Best spy story ever that one, we were told he got in the bag himself and padlocked it,

    Really makes you wonder who and why they left him to be found, or what happened to the people that put him in the bag that meant they weren't able to hide him

    You blatantly leave people to be found, to make a point to others. If the wanted him hid, he'd have been buried in a hole
    No way you don't leave the mess behind something happened to whoever was going to put that bag somewhere,

    Or he honestly thought being the world's best hide and seek player would help him hide from the ruskis or jihadis

    Well with that logic, why didn't the Russians just snatch litvinenko rather than inflicting a slow highly visible death ?
    To send a message? Same reason the other bloke was left in a bag, I guess.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    SDAddick said:

    cabbles said:

    Welcome to my abstract fact of the day. The original post talks of a propeller plane. The focus for me isn't a propeller plane, but the H-4 Hercules or the Spruce Goose. The Spruce Goose was the brain child of Howard Hughes, the Aviator. Howard a successful businessman built the Spruce Goose to be the largest ever plane to take flight. It took one flight in 1947, but never reached the heights it was supposed to as military passenger plane.

    Join me again tomorrow.

    The Spruce Goose was built and (I think) is still housed in Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles, near to where I grew up. Join me again tomorrow for more "unnecessary sub-stories to pointless facts."
    This is perfect SD Addick you're contributing to the abstract fact of the day. Bastards like Irving and IA just want to attack it
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    First trains, and now planes. What next?
  • Strasburger
    Strasburger Posts: 957
    Kept me awake most of the night. It was so low over shooters hill you could bearly see it as it passed by
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    SDAddick said:

    cabbles said:

    Welcome to my abstract fact of the day. The original post talks of a propeller plane. The focus for me isn't a propeller plane, but the H-4 Hercules or the Spruce Goose. The Spruce Goose was the brain child of Howard Hughes, the Aviator. Howard a successful businessman built the Spruce Goose to be the largest ever plane to take flight. It took one flight in 1947, but never reached the heights it was supposed to as military passenger plane.

    Join me again tomorrow.

    The Spruce Goose was built and (I think) is still housed in Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles, near to where I grew up. Join me again tomorrow for more "unnecessary sub-stories to pointless facts."
    I thought it was in a museum just outside Oregon, at least t was the last time I saw it a few years ago...
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    nth london addick said:

    Because it wasn't the ruskis

    Ah...?
    Begums ?
  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    edited February 2016
    man_at_milletts said:

    First trains, and now planes. What next?

    John candy and automobiles

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