things that make you smile

Yorkshire lad

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Mixed Farmer
Location
YO42
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Mrs YL saw this today made us both smile .
 

Old Boar

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Location
West Wales
I was grottling around in the field this afternoon when this flew over. I know it is not a very good pic of a chinook, but you try taking out your mobile from a secure pocket with muddy gloves!

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He swung round and went straight over me, probably thinking I was stuck, but the downdraft and the chopping of the air was quite exhilarating. By the time he flew off, I had sunk quite a few inches! :)
 

jellybean

Member
Location
N.Devon
I was grottling around in the field this afternoon when this flew over. I know it is not a very good pic of a chinook, but you try taking out your mobile from a secure pocket with muddy gloves!

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He swung round and went straight over me, probably thinking I was stuck, but the downdraft and the chopping of the air was quite exhilarating. By the time he flew off, I had sunk quite a few inches! :)

That's just the latest Mark 3 broomstick!
 

Pan mixer

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
I love a Chinook. We don’t see them very often round here, but more often right down in south Warwickshire and Oxfordshire.

I like that moment when you first hear that distinctive engine thud in the distance, then it seems to disappear and you think “maybe not”, then a few seconds later it’s unmistakable.
I like a Chinook sound too but we get 10 a day sometimes in twos and 4s, they annoy the stock a bit when they slow down ready to approach the firing ranges. Apache Longbows - even more of them about, are just as disruptive especially when they hover for ages, a mate had several acres of barley lodged severely the other year by a low level Lynx that seem to practice going under HT wires on the local pylons.
 

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