Originally Posted by
zetec2
just had a a comment from SWMBO living here in Bicester, used to dash outside in days past when the Air Atlantique DC6 & Electra's used to go overhead on their paper runs etc, still doing same some 20 years later when the AN12 & 26 go overhead, what will the next 20 years bring ? assuming am still alive & can still dash outside ?.
Currently here near London City we have one of the Antonovs audibly go directly overhead it seems every day for several months now. Random times and indeed aircraft. Sometimes more than one. The sound difference between the 12 and the 26 can be learned.
Only shame is it seems to be unfailingly overcast when they go over, have hardly ever seen one. As an amazing contrast, when the Mars spaceshot touched down late last night it was brilliant sky clear and Mars, plus plenty of stars, for once visible (Little Miss WHBM, on having Mars pointed out, says "OK, now where's the rocket ?").