There's been rather a lot of activity in the air this morning, some a bit mysterious, so I took Annie to the Crash Gate. As well as managing to take this pic of Harrier doing it' s VTOL thing (right), I observed a largish, passenger-type jet (left) flying round in big circles and not quite landing every 10 minutes or so (I think it's still doing it now). Or it could be a series of identical jets I suppose. The 'plane flies down to a few feet above the runway, landing lights blazing, but instead of landing speeds off, up and away again. This seems a rather pointless exercise, and I've been trying to come up with an explanation. Is is pilot training in how to not quite land (in which case I would have thought actually landing would be more useful)? Or is it flown by a pilot who's scared to land and keeps nearly getting there and then thinking "eeeek, can't do it" and flying off again? Is the landing gear not dropping like that 'plane a few days ago, so it keeps coming round for another try? Is it testing the engines? 
Here's a picture of the Crash Gate as described a few days ago. There's nothing amongst the various warning signs to say you can't take photos, so hopefully I won't be whisked off to jail like those pensioners in Greece.
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