Before I start let me say, this is not a whine, in fact I find the whole incident rather amusing and I'm putting it down as 'one of those things that just happen' =)
While flying at the southern end of the Main Arena, between A40 and P21 last nigh (about 04:30 GMT) I spotted an enemy contact on radar roughly 12 miles off my 10 o'clock. While I watched, the radar showed it closing rapidly and it appeared as a dot and passed rapidly in front of me, still staying a dot, to finish up about 5 miles off my 3 o'clock.
The odd thing is that it took about 30 seconds to do this which I estimate to be in excess of 2000mph =) It certainly looked to be motoring!
I think I was the only person to see this as both the radio buffer and Roger Wilco (in listen only mode at the time) had reports of a high F4U in that area, but nohting unusual with no other contacts. The dot on radar was successfully intercepted and shot down so I don't think it was anyone doing anything they shouldn't (if you follow me).
The connection meter showed a nice flat line at the time (first thing I checked).
Anyway, like I said, it was amusing. First time I've seen this, although I've read other reports, and as long as it stays this infrequent I feel it almost adds character to things, real 'foo fighters' =)
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Graywolfe <tim@flibble.org>
