Originally Posted by
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
Ahhh nostalgia. I remember them well. I also recall seeing and hearing a B-36 over southern England too.
I think I was about 4 years old (early 50s) when I saw a B36. I rushed indoors and told my brother I'd seen a plane with 6 engines on the back of the wings.
He hit me saying there was no such thing!
I heard a 'heavy' turboprop the other evening. There was very high cloud and I could see a shape roughly north east from my home (towards Heathrow direction) at high level but couldn't make out the type so assumed it was an Atlas out of Brize going to Germany (or maybe somewhere a bit further away)