Hunter blue note
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Hunter blue note
Filmed at Duxford by someone last week, was an epic if wet display
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Just thought you'd like to hear it again
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Is one allowed to say "moist" on here?
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Ahem...
I was there, and it was utterly lovely to hear and to see.
The highlight of the entire day, without doubt.
Thanks for posting.
Edit to add:
It's enough to make an old pilot smile and think to himself, "ahh- back when we made our own aircraft...."
That jet would do just as good a job of shooting your average sheep-shagging Arab today, as it did in the fifties.
Still, we mustn't stand in the way of progress...
I was there, and it was utterly lovely to hear and to see.
The highlight of the entire day, without doubt.
Thanks for posting.
Edit to add:
It's enough to make an old pilot smile and think to himself, "ahh- back when we made our own aircraft...."
That jet would do just as good a job of shooting your average sheep-shagging Arab today, as it did in the fifties.
Still, we mustn't stand in the way of progress...
Last edited by AtomKraft; 19th Oct 2013 at 00:48.
Yes it is the gun ports - the Hunters without gun ports (+ the later marks with redesigned gun ports) do not sound as nice...but I still say that the Meteor F8 sounds much nicer
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Is it the gun ports? The Canberra PR9 would produce a wonderful blue note at 450 kts and max chat; 2 x Avons = twice the strength of the blue note. The only problem was that max chat v quickly exceeded the 450 kt VNE.
Yes definitely the gun ports - the Mk58 has different gun ports and does not make any blue note at all.
Ref the Canberra PR9,I know the sound you mean and I guess than any aperture might make a similar note at certain airspeeds/relative airflow angle.
I will try and find a better meteor sound...Puddy Catt used to do a good blue note run at Brawdy with the F8 when returning from target towing etc
Ref the Canberra PR9,I know the sound you mean and I guess than any aperture might make a similar note at certain airspeeds/relative airflow angle.
I will try and find a better meteor sound...Puddy Catt used to do a good blue note run at Brawdy with the F8 when returning from target towing etc
Yes indeed
I went to the Kemble airshow some years ago just to hear Stan Hodgkins fly the F8... a very emotional sound
I went to the Kemble airshow some years ago just to hear Stan Hodgkins fly the F8... a very emotional sound
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I went to the Kemble airshow some years ago just to hear Stan Hodgkins fly the F8
Stan, in a previous life, had been a Navy looker.
He took pride in wearing his Observer badge inside his RAF battle jacket.
Stan, in a previous life, had been a Navy looker.
He took pride in wearing his Observer badge inside his RAF battle jacket.