[News] Very loud aircraft(?) around 5-45am this morning?

[Greg Bobkin]

Apparently it was thunder

 

[afters]

Yes, woke us up here in Seaford, there seemed to be another shortly afterwards, hope all is well.

yep, there did seem to be two noises. v weird

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Saw something on Twitter about a plane with engine trouble but that was Essex. Guessing it might have been thunder but all very weird.

 

[Petunia]

Was Southwick tunnel closed while this was going on.......?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Apparently it was thunder

Where's that from?

Looking at that flight radar 7500 isn't very high.

 

[Monkey Man]

We heard it in Seaford some time around 5.30am from memory. Definitely didn't sound like thunder and it occurred twice, the second noise a couple of minutes after the first.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Might've been Boris hammering out the last details with his secretary on Brexit airways en route back from Europe.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Where's that from?

Looking at that flight radar 7500 isn't very high.

Some geezer on Facebook said it. Must be true

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There were a couple of long haul flights due into Gatwick shortly after 6am and a larger number due into Heathrow from 5am. Weather-related change of usual flight approach maybe?

 

[AmexRuislip]

There were a couple of long haul flights due into Gatwick shortly after 6am and a larger number due into Heathrow from 5am. Weather-related change of usual flight approach maybe?

Go on admit it, you're a spotter.
All those days during your childhood in the glens, pointing at aircraft

 

[El Turi]

I heard it as well. I looked at Flightradar24 straight away and it seemed to be a private jet that took off from Reykjavik. I’m not sure where it was going though.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

According to https://webtrak.emsbk.com/lgw2 there was a BA flight from Bridgetown to Gatwick coming along the coast at that time;

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That doesn't look right, whatever it was sounded right overhead here in Bexhill. Mind you it was persisting it down at the time so it could have been the rain storm

 

[Knocky's Nose]

All those days during your childhood.... pointing at aircraft

Where I'm from up North, we all just used to point at the moon. You Southern lot with your fancy aircraft to point at.. etc...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Go on admit it, you're a spotter.
All those days during your childhood in the glens, pointing at aircraft

It's a fair cop guv. Our favourite was always when the BA flight from London landed at Aberdeen. They'd switch off the engines but the whining noise would continue

 

[AmexRuislip]

Where I'm from up North, we all just used to point at the moon. You Southern lot with your fancy aircraft to point at.. etc...

It's a fair cop guv. Our favourite was always when the BA flight from London landed at Aberdeen. They'd switch off the engines but the whining noise would continue

Brilliant

 

[el punal]

It's a fair cop guv. Our favourite was always when the BA flight from London landed at Aberdeen. They'd switch off the engines but the whining noise would continue

Ouch! Ooh, get you!

 

[AmexRuislip]

Ouch! Ooh, get you!

Do you still hang around Eastleigh airport in the evenings, annoying the locals

 

[knocky1]

Saw this flying down our road around that time.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

According to https://webtrak.emsbk.com/lgw2 there was a BA flight from Bridgetown to Gatwick coming along the coast at that time;

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Descending and losing airspeed ready for landing - engines on little more than tick-over - wouldn't have awoken anyone at 7,500 feet

If it were right noisy, I'd be thinking military - at that time of day and that location, unlikely to be training ....

If it were a fast jet, the noise would be gone withing 5-10 seconds - if it lingered, might have been the police chopper?

 

[afters]

Descending and losing airspeed ready for landing - engines on little more than tick-over - wouldn't have awoken anyone at 7,500 feet

If it were right noisy, I'd be thinking military - at that time of day and that location, unlikely to be training ....

If it were a fast jet, the noise would be gone withing 5-10 seconds - if it lingered, might have been the police chopper?

It was definitely not the police helicopter, sounded very much like a plane and very loud indeed.all very strange and heard over quite a distance it seems. it did indeed linger, it wasn't like seeing the red arrows whoosh by.