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Old 8th Jan 2015, 04:31
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Stanwell
 
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As a youngster in the 1950s I lived close to a major airport.
Airliners such as the Boeing Stratocruiser, Lockheed Constellation and Douglas DC7 would come close by, fully loaded and only slowly gaining height.

Aside from the noise (which I loved), they would rattle the windows and shake the crockery in the cupboards.
The thing that did inconvenience the oldies, though, was that the ignition systems would interfere with the TV reception.

Well, when you've got 112 individual cylinders firing at take-off power, in the case of the B337 Strat, (4 x P&W 4360s), you could expect that, couldn't you?

These days, people move next to an airport and then complain about the noise from C172s and PA28s.

I'll just leave it at that, I think.
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