Originally Posted by
SimonPaddo
Ironic given what flew at Farnborough in the RAE heyday, no hush kits in sight. Especially now Gulfstream have a major maintenance facility here now.
When I was going through the records of movements at Farnborough as recorded in the '50s, I found them broken down into 'piston' and 'jet' and the numbers were roughly equal.
Not only that, there were records of some flying throughout the night!(the stats included the number of movements for every hour of the day/night)
Even in my day (1974 until the finish of Experimental Flying in 1995) we had the occasional Hunter, Jaguar and Buccaneer operating as late as 11pm or even midnight and helicopters until about 3 am.