The Sound of Freedom
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We just had a burst of the sound of freedom as a Typhoon flew over our garden on the Hants/Dorset border near Hurn.
Now what was he or she doing down in this part of the world around 1545 BST? Sounded like it went to Hurn and rolled or overshot.
Surprisingly noisy!
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Now what was he or she doing down in this part of the world around 1545 BST? Sounded like it went to Hurn and rolled or overshot.
Surprisingly noisy!
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Trim, just for you. 
I have this in a 1950s National Geographic. Great imagery, I wonder how the great British public would react to a wake up call like this these days though? No car alarms to set off mind..
Great PR - Cathay Brat please take note..
I have this in a 1950s National Geographic. Great imagery, I wonder how the great British public would react to a wake up call like this these days though? No car alarms to set off mind..
Great PR - Cathay Brat please take note..
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I guess you can please some of the people etc. Trim it was a sarcastic throwback to my younger days when the expression was used a lot. That was in the RAF , something you appear not to have been in!
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On a similar sort of thing didn't the 20TFW have a badge that said "Warsaw Pact Central Heating" and a pic of an F111 underneath
Now that was provocative :-)
Found a pic:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9123329@N06/2135895784/
Now that was provocative :-)
Found a pic:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9123329@N06/2135895784/
didn't the 20TFW have a badge that said "Warsaw Pact Central Heating"
My google-foo skills have not tracked down an image online....found plenty with a B52 as the aircraft but not a F111
ExRAFRadar,
Crews of both the 48 TFW at Lakenheath with the F-111F (the patch you show) and the 20 TFW at Upper Heyford with the F-111E wore the Warsaw Pact Central Heating patch. Made me chuckle the first time I saw one !
Crews of both the 48 TFW at Lakenheath with the F-111F (the patch you show) and the 20 TFW at Upper Heyford with the F-111E wore the Warsaw Pact Central Heating patch. Made me chuckle the first time I saw one !
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although in the case of the F3 it was more like - the sound of overtime, unpaid, mandatory.......
aaaah friday afternoon double donk changes and friday night reheat runs up the detuner/pan/bit of taxiway etc.....
aaaah friday afternoon double donk changes and friday night reheat runs up the detuner/pan/bit of taxiway etc.....
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Originally Posted by 27mm
move to Marham or Lossie when JSF arrives; already known to be the loudest jet ever....
-RP
You bunch of Northern Hemisphere cynics - where are your souls?!
It's a great expression.
Amongst the mundane, buzzsaw whine of yet another high bypass turbofan droning overhead, that knife like sound always draws the eye skyward in a flash....
It's a great expression.
Amongst the mundane, buzzsaw whine of yet another high bypass turbofan droning overhead, that knife like sound always draws the eye skyward in a flash....
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The Smell of Victory then?
Sound of freedom
That ghastly cringe-inducing yank terminology should be banned from PPRuNe.
That ghastly cringe-inducing yank terminology should be banned from PPRuNe.
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that.
[kneels]
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like
[sniffing, pondering]
Kilgore: victory.
