I can remember in the late 80's British Aerospace at Salmesbury rebuilt a
PR Spit, and fitted it with a Griffon 58 that had been re-manufactured to a single prop g/box by Rolls Royce, then came the flight tests, one of my warehouse's and office was alongside the railway in Blackburn which seemed to be a good big target , for many times did I hear that glourious growl of the Griffon as the test pilot blasted his way through the atmoshere at about 5 to 600 ft, to do a 180 right above my factory, on several occasion I left visitors, to quickly run out to the car park to watch this, and hear that wonderful sound, some visitors who were often trying to sell things to me, really couldn't understand why I was so intent on not listening to their drivel, but rather standing like some nutcase with my neck cranning skywards, needless to say they didn't sell me owt!
Nothing beats the sound of many cylinders and exploding hydrocarbons.
