Originally Posted by
RichardJones
RR Conway. BA 707's and the VC10'S?
The crackle of 4 of those engines getting airborne on a cold dry day, was something to behold.
I remember them - possibly not as the sweetest noise, but a couple of moments are lodged forever in my mind and I can feel the particular time all over again:
1st, sitting in the garden of a married quarter at Marham with a full power engine run being carried out not far away - the sun, the thumping noise.....
2nd, On the apron at Ascension Island during one of the early trips South: The dark, The night heat on the wind. The formation start was already happening, and the fuel bowser (there was only one) had only just arrived to us, can't remember why but I nipped outside to speak to the groundcrew.... about 70 or 80 Conways all within 100yds. The world was Solid sound,