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Old 4th Sep 2005, 15:45
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Mitchell over East Lancashire?

NiceSunday snooze in my garden just woken to the "Sound of Music", the sort created by two big rorty radials, not singing Nuns. time was about 1630hrs going West / East, can anybody confirm this was a Mitchell ?


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Old 4th Sep 2005, 21:47
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I read on another forum that it may have been the Dutch (Duke of Brabants) B25 going to a display at Portrush in N Ireland
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Must have been on his way home then(or doing a Mark Thatcher)
for it was flying West to East away from Ireland,

looking at the map he was heading more or less straight for the Humber Estury.

Thank you Spit, the sound made by those engines, was to be heard , it was Music to my ears

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Those R-2600's cylinders each have a short exhaust stack - no collector ring nicety. If you bum a ride, be sure you bring ear plugs - the internal racket is about 199.9 decibels.

But it's worth it!
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They sounded as though just above tickover, I could almost hear individual cylinders firing

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Nice one....I saw that...quite low level heading towards ROSUN.

Made my afternoon.
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