Just cos I gotta say wow...

I think I spotted a Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey flying over the farm yesterday! I've been trying to be so good and not go running around to check out every aircraft noise I hear when I'm supposed to be working, but this is why I should - by the time I thought no, that sounds different, it was already too distant to see properly. I did take a couple of pics when I realised what I was seeing though, because huh?! I could tell there were two propellers where there shouldn't be, and it clearly wasn't one of the Chinooks that we often get.

Downloaded the pics just now, and did some googling - the Bell 280 which came up first didn't look right, but this one did, based up in Herefordshire last year. And then I found a vid, which looks like it's from years ago at the Farnborough show, and wiki says they were first developed back in the late 1980s - but it's the first time I've ever seen one! Also, the wiki article has a picture showing condensation being thrown off the propellers, which might be what's making that blurring across the top in the pictures, perhaps... *g*

How cool is that though - and I gather they've been used to bring supplies to countries devastated by hurricanes etc., so that's something good too...

Okay, back to the coal mines... word mines?