The Sound of Freedom

[ACW418]

We just had a burst of the sound of freedom as a Typhoon flew over our garden on the Hants/Dorset border near Hurn.

Now what was he or she doing down in this part of the world around 1545 BST? Sounded like it went to Hurn and rolled or overshot.

Surprisingly noisy!

ACW

[G-ARZG]

Flying to(or from) a big car park at Goodwood, methinks

[Rosevidney1]

Noisy? I'll say! If one does a routine within the airfield boundary burner on they set off car alarms.

[Trim Stab]

sound of freedom

That ghastly cringe-inducing yank terminology should be banned from Pprune.

[Al R]

Trim, just for you. ;)

I have this in a 1950s National Geographic. Great imagery, I wonder how the great British public would react to a wake up call like this these days though? No car alarms to set off mind..

Great PR - Cathay Brat please take note..

http://digitalpostercollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Freedom-Has-a-New-Sound-Convair.jpg

[ACW418]

I guess you can please some of the people etc. Trim it was a sarcastic throwback to my younger days when the expression was used a lot. That was in the RAF , something you appear not to have been in!

ACW

[27mm]

If you want jet noise, move to Marham or Lossie when JSF arrives; already known to be the loudest jet ever....

[Wrathmonk]

Trim Stab

Just for you, a few more clicky (http://www.skygod.com/quotes/cliches.html) ..... and not all of them fast jet orientated!

[ACW418]

Wrathmonk,

Many thanks - the old ones are the best.

ACW

[ExRAFRadar]

On a similar sort of thing didn't the 20TFW have a badge that said "Warsaw Pact Central Heating" and a pic of an F111 underneath

Now that was provocative :-)

Found a pic:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9123329@N06/2135895784/

[Wrathmonk]

didn't the 20TFW have a badge that said "Warsaw Pact Central Heating"

There was also a similar one with the motto "NOW it's Miller Time" with an F111 heading away from a mushroom cloud. Only ever saw it as a mural/painting in the Ops Building at Nellis but assume it was a badge/zap as well.

My google-foo skills have not tracked down an image online....found plenty with a B52 as the aircraft but not a F111

[RAFEngO74to09]

ExRAFRadar,


Crews of both the 48 TFW at Lakenheath with the F-111F (the patch you show) and the 20 TFW at Upper Heyford with the F-111E wore the Warsaw Pact Central Heating patch. Made me chuckle the first time I saw one !


http://www.av8rstuff.com/gifs/f111ewarsaw.JPG

[glad rag]

1500'ish today, sound of freedom on a weekend!

:D:ok::D

[cornish-stormrider]

although in the case of the F3 it was more like - the sound of overtime, unpaid, mandatory.......

aaaah friday afternoon double donk changes and friday night reheat runs up the detuner/pan/bit of taxiway etc.....

[rh200]

Great PR - Cathay Brat please take note..

Back in the day, when the media wasn't anti, well everything not huggy fluffy:p

[Rhino power]

move to Marham or Lossie when JSF arrives; already known to be the loudest jet ever....

The F-35's sole, crowning achievement! :}

-RP

[tartare]

You bunch of Northern Hemisphere cynics - where are your souls?!
It's a great expression.
Amongst the mundane, buzzsaw whine of yet another high bypass turbofan droning overhead, that knife like sound always draws the eye skyward in a flash.... ;)

[Exascot]

Sound of freedom

That ghastly cringe-inducing yank terminology should be banned from PPRuNe.

Apocalypse Now:

Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that.
[kneels]
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like
[sniffing, pondering]
Kilgore: victory.