Antonov 22 due in EGCC/MAN today

[Wino]

Nope, couldn't do it either, and I got killer connect as well.

Cheers
Wino

Edited to add.
Whoops about 4 minutes later it just popped up and started playing
So I guess it works

Cheers
WIno

[allyn]

Wow!

Thanks for the movie clip!

I've wanted to see and hear this plane for a long time. It's an amazing sound...very similar to the B36


Click on the button in the upper right hand corner that says "Hear the B36"

There's a sound we'll never hear again....

[bagpuss lives]

The file works fine for me, and what a glorious sound and sight it is too.

It does take a while to load, even on a fast connection.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

<<Click on the button in the upper right hand corner that says "Hear the B36" >>


Wonder how many people on here have heard a B36 for real? When I was a spotter in the 50s one flew over my home in Morden, Surrey and I can still see and hear it to this day - amazing.

Still trying with the other clip...

[bagpuss lives]

Heathrow Director

Do you have the Quick Time player installed mate?

If not go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/ and download the free player. Then try.

If you do already have it installed it may be a connection issue. In this case if you PM me your e-mail address (I've misplaced it, I know I had it once) I shall email you the video file

[allyn]

Wonder how many people on here have heard a B36 for real?

Not I...I'm too young!

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 60's and, as a child, I remember being lulled to sleep by the warm, droning sound of heavy recips flying over the Bay. Looking back I wonder if some of them were the Air Force C124's on their way to Hawaii...

[treadigraph]

Strange, I've got the same prob with the QT file - mind you, our office QT is badly installed and I can't fiddle - I'll take the file home and try it there.

I've been lucky enough to see the 22 twice over Purley, first time "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT NOISE?", second time, I barely needed to go outside to check!

Cor, B-36 eh, would love to have seen one! WAV file is great, wish I had speakers on my PC, I'd wake up my colleagues...!

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

At last, after many attempts, it downloaded in about 5 seconds! Thanks very much - it's magic!

[allyn]

So that's what the AN-22 sounds like....

I wonder the Bear (TU-95/142) or the TU-114 would've sounded like?

[BOAC]

Bear - unique noise - heard it, bone-dome on, in the pressurised cockpit of a Lightning a few times in the 70's at 28-33000 feet up by Iceland. About 100 feet away sometimes a little bit closer.............

Props were supersonic at the tips. Had a camera with me but sadly no tape deck

[allyn]

Bears and Airshows

I understand that one appeared at Farnborough one year. When was that?

Sorry for the topic drift.....

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Must have been Farnborough 1998? It did itself proud by landing partly on the grass beside the runway, leaving huge wheel marks!!

[wub]

HD:

It was 1988 (doesn't time fly?)

[treadigraph]

You recall the exciting landing then (over on AH&N, Aeorhack told us he was was staying in a hotel under the approach when it landed and was in the bath, torn between modesty and curiosity!)

Nah, 1990 or 1992 I think - I'm sure I had my Dolly Sprint at the time, and drove down to see it...

Came in with a spare engine for the An-124 or An-225 which was poorly.


Edited to say beaten by WUB - Yes, 1988 - must have been my older Dolomite 1500 "A Piece of Lace" a reference to it's Swiss cheese syle bodywork!

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

<It was 1988 (doesn't time fly?)>

Holy Old Age, Wub, thanks for that!