Help What plane's did i see

wicked88 · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:47

Ok me and friends where playing golf in torquay devon on thursday about 2ish

when i seen 3 jets flying overhead (they where high up) they were dark blue in colour and looked like lear jets, i not bad with my knowledge of planes but these have got me stumped, then i seen a 4th a few moments later, anyone know what they are as i need to know :confused:

JohnnyG · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:49

They sound like dark blue lear jets to me

JBuk · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:50

blue and looked liked learjets.......mmmm.......... maybe they were blue learjets?

joking aside , you aint gave much detail to go on

wicked88 · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:51

JohnnyG said:
They sound like dark blue lear jets to me

lol yeh thats what me thinks but has anyone seen them flying together at any airshows

MarkLP · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:52

think they might have passed over holsworthy too. They were very high though :confused:

iCraig · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:52

Maybe the maniac that is Skuzi will know.

wicked88 · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:53

MarkLP said:
think they might have passed over holsworthy too. They were very high though

how many did you see

Stringy · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:54

The only dark blue display team I can think of is the Breitling team, but they don't fly Lears (funny display team if they did) but dark blue L-39s.
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Although if they were bigger planes then it probably wasn't them.

MarkLP · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:54

saw 2 close together then a third about 5 secs later.

wicked88 · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:56

OCdt Stringy said:
The only dark blue display team I can think of is the Breitling team, but they don't fly Lears (funny display team if they did) but dark blue L-39s.
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Although if they were bigger planes then it probably wasn't them.

defo not them as they had engine's just behind the wings like the lear jets :confused:

Keylow · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:59

A-10's?

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wicked88 · 11 Jun 2006 at 21:01

Keylow said:
A-10's?

funny you should say that but my friend who i was with thought they where A10 but the wings where tucked back in so that rules the A10 out, i think :confused:

Curio · 11 Jun 2006 at 21:50

Did they look like any of these then?

http://images.google.com/images?q=lear+jet&hl=en

EDIT: The 5th one maybe?

William · 11 Jun 2006 at 21:54

Were they in formation?

wicked88 · 11 Jun 2006 at 21:58

Curio said:
Did they look like any of these then?

http://images.google.com/images?q=lear+jet&hl=en

EDIT: The 5th one maybe?

this could well be it but i'm still not 100% sure