The open land between my region’s towns and villages is a low flying zone for the helicopters of our Royal Air Force. This must be an AS-532U2 Cougar Mk2, built by Airbus Helicopters. I had no idea, but that’s my conclusion after consulting the Air Force’s website.
After going around the barn, the Cougar went off as quickly as it arrived, staying as low to the ground as possible. I’m certain it’s not Robin Hood’s barn.
Here’s a bit closer look at a Cougar.
Interesting practice run – on someone’s building!
Quite a picture! I live in an area that sees a fair number of military flights as well, but never anything that low. Must’ve been neat to watch.
As if low flying public drones isn’t enough of a danger…
Nice pic. Canadian Forces Base Borden is near my place in Southern Ontario. They fly low level helicopter training flights like this in the area. One such training route passes right over my farmhouse (on a hill) . I’m not sure why but they seem to like the combination of forests and open fields on the area.
One summer Sunday morning I was woken up by a helicopter thumping away and ran out to see a Forces helicopter ….. lower than my house, down in a field. It was flying about 6 ft off the ground right for me. It rose up just enough to pop over my house and barn, then dropped down to an altitude of 6 ft again , going down the far side of the hill and across my soybean field, only to pop up to clear my forest beyond.
It scared the heck out of me. Fortunately I was pretty much naked at the time so the crew got an eyeful…. so there’s that ……
…helicopter views come in many forms.
I was about to correct you and say that the RAF fly Pumas, not Cougars but then I realised you meant the RNAF, not THE Royal Air Force! 😁
There’s also the Royal Norwegian Air Force, more precisely, RNoAF.
Yes, the Koninklijke Luchtmacht. Parvus numero, magnus merito.