Planes at night and in the morning
dixi188
Bit off thread but....
You stirred up memories.
I lived in Bracknell in the 70s/80s.
I used to wait outside of a Sunday evening especially for the
East African Airways VC10 Departure.
Pure magic sounds.
I even managed primitive recordings sometimes, still have the Tapes.
I am open to correction, but does not the VC 10 hold the "Noise Record"
out of heathrow, over and above "Concorde" ???
OPF
You stirred up memories.
I lived in Bracknell in the 70s/80s.
I used to wait outside of a Sunday evening especially for the
East African Airways VC10 Departure.
Pure magic sounds.
I even managed primitive recordings sometimes, still have the Tapes.
I am open to correction, but does not the VC 10 hold the "Noise Record"
out of heathrow, over and above "Concorde" ???
OPF
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The VC10 ws a noisy beast alright. It had that delightful tummy-vibrating roar jet-heads like us go to Farnborough every few years to listen to (and experience!). But not as much as a Tornado on full reheat. Concorde could do pretty well also, but pound for pound, I'm not sure anything matches a BAC1-11 for sheer anti-socialness!
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Never heard a VC10 (as far as I am aware).
But my Noisests experiences in order are:-
1) Concorde taking off at the end of farnborough weekend (think it was 1998).
2) Harrier doing its hovering performance and bow to crowd at farnborough during same year.
3) Tornadoes 3 years ago doing fast pass attack display at biggin hill (this was mixed in with chinooks on the ground and pyrotechnics going off).
4) Mig 29 (if I recall correctly) sitting in the vertical on afterburners at farnborough (same year as above).
5) Typhoon at multiple displays.
Incidently I can understand the original posters question - I can quite often hear heavy jets passing over head at the early hours of the morning (2-4am) - more than likely they are just using high altitude routes over the UK and because of the quiet of the dead of the night they can seem quite vocal (I am around 3 miles from Bovingdon).
But my Noisests experiences in order are:-
1) Concorde taking off at the end of farnborough weekend (think it was 1998).
2) Harrier doing its hovering performance and bow to crowd at farnborough during same year.
3) Tornadoes 3 years ago doing fast pass attack display at biggin hill (this was mixed in with chinooks on the ground and pyrotechnics going off).
4) Mig 29 (if I recall correctly) sitting in the vertical on afterburners at farnborough (same year as above).
5) Typhoon at multiple displays.
Incidently I can understand the original posters question - I can quite often hear heavy jets passing over head at the early hours of the morning (2-4am) - more than likely they are just using high altitude routes over the UK and because of the quiet of the dead of the night they can seem quite vocal (I am around 3 miles from Bovingdon).
I believe that, in the early days of Pan Am 747-100s doing nonstops to LAX/San Francisco on hot afternoon departures from Heathrow, after liftoff they were known as Hedge Clippers 
