Low Flying Hum Dingers

Various friendly air forces treat the Yorkshire Dales to some spectacular low flying almost daily.   The geography and the sparse population make it ideal.   This is from a local Facebook posting today and shows a big military aircraft posing nicely in front of Pen y Ghent.

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Most days, or so it seems, we get the incredible looking machines pictured below overhead and low down, always going from east to west:

I think they are Bell-Boeing V22 vertical take off and landing aircraft.   In level forward flight, as over Settle, they make a devil of a noise and look very odd with those enormous propellers.   Stealth aircraft they are not.   We had a couple in formation yesterday.

I wonder if they find our SETTLE lettering on the tower roof at all reassuring?