C-Mag wrote: Thu Sep 27, 2018 10:49 pm
Montegriffo wrote: Tue Sep 25, 2018 7:10 am
Took the kitchen down to the former RAF airbase at Bentwaters in Suffolk today ready to start work on the film Vengence 2 tomorrow. Next to the building we use as a dinning room and production office is the hanger belonging to the Grace Spitfire. As we were setting up we heard a plane flying circles overhead and looked up hoping to see the Spitfire. Instead we saw a Russian fighter, when it came down to land a few minutes later I wandered over to have a closer look and it turned out to be the Yak 3 I'd seen last time I was there.
We will be there for the next month so with a bit of luck the Spitfire will make an appearance at some point.
Caroline Grace with her Spit'
The Yak 3
Pretty cool, especially the Yak
The Russian V12 sounded nice but it is no match for the Merlin.
StA would love this place, there are old cold war jets littered all over the site (none in airworthy condition that I know about). My interest in warplanes doesn't really go past 1945 so I couldn't name any of them.
There are bomb proof hangers here which used to contain nuclear bombers. They are now used to store fireworks.
In 1980 the forest between USAF/RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge became famous for a series of UFO sightings in what became known as the Rendlesham forest incident. The incident is called Britains Roswell.
Around 3:00 a.m. on 26 December 1980 (reported as the 27th by Halt in his memo to the UK Ministry of Defence – see below) a security patrol near the east gate of RAF Woodbridge saw lights apparently descending into nearby Rendlesham Forest. These lights have been attributed by astronomers to a piece of natural debris seen burning up as a fireball over southern England at that time.[4] Servicemen initially thought it was a downed aircraft but, upon entering the forest to investigate they saw, according to Halt's memo, what they described as a glowing object, metallic in appearance, with coloured lights. As they attempted to approach the object, it appeared to move through the trees, and "the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy". One of the servicemen, Sergeant Jim Penniston, later claimed to have encountered a "craft of unknown origin" while in the forest, although there was no publicized mention of this at the time and there is no corroboration from other witnesses.
The deputy base commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, visited the site with several servicemen in the early hours of 28 December 1980 (reported as the 29th by Halt). They took radiation readings in the triangle of depressions and in the surrounding area using an AN/PDR-27, a standard U.S. military radiation survey meter. Although they recorded 0.07 milliroentgens per hour, in other regions they detected 0.03 to 0.04 milliroentgens per hour, around the background level. Furthermore, they detected a similar small 'burst' over half a mile away from the landing site.[10][11] Halt recorded the events on a micro-cassette recorder (see § The Halt Tape, below).
It was during this investigation that a flashing light was seen across the field to the east, almost in line with a farmhouse, as the witnesses had seen on the first night. The Orford Ness lighthouse is visible further to the east in the same line of sight (see below).[12]
Later, according to Halt's memo, three starlike lights were seen in the sky, two to the north and one to the south, about 10 degrees above the horizon. Halt said that the brightest of these hovered for two to three hours and seemed to beam down a stream of light from time to time. Astronomers have explained these starlike lights as bright stars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesha ... t_incident
