Noisy propliner over Midlands just now
It always amazes me how turbo props make so much noise up at FL200 and more , although the old Antonovs really are distinctive.
Going back into the nostalgia element I remember the C133s which were also very noisy being regular users of was it Green One or Red 1 airway (or a combination) that ran east to west across southern England. Another sight if not sound from those days was the double deck C124 Globemasters which looked like an aluminium wall floating in space when the sun caught them, they were incredibly slow and must have been torture on an Atlantic crossing
Going back into the nostalgia element I remember the C133s which were also very noisy being regular users of was it Green One or Red 1 airway (or a combination) that ran east to west across southern England. Another sight if not sound from those days was the double deck C124 Globemasters which looked like an aluminium wall floating in space when the sun caught them, they were incredibly slow and must have been torture on an Atlantic crossing
It always amazes me how turbo props make so much noise up at FL200 and more , although the old Antonovs really are distinctive.
Going back into the nostalgia element I remember the C133s which were also very noisy being regular users of was it Green One or Red 1 airway (or a combination) that ran east to west across southern England. Another sight if not sound from those days was the double deck C124 Globemasters which looked like an aluminium wall floating in space when the sun caught them, they were incredibly slow and must have been torture on an Atlantic crossing
Going back into the nostalgia element I remember the C133s which were also very noisy being regular users of was it Green One or Red 1 airway (or a combination) that ran east to west across southern England. Another sight if not sound from those days was the double deck C124 Globemasters which looked like an aluminium wall floating in space when the sun caught them, they were incredibly slow and must have been torture on an Atlantic crossing
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I didnt know they did that but I think I am going back further than that -probably 1964/65 , from the darkest recesses of my memory I have them much much higher . Shame though because I never got to see one other than as a dot with a bit of magnification through my Telescope
I didnt know they did that but I think I am going back further than that -probably 1964/65 , from the darkest recesses of my memory I have them much much higher . Shame though because I never got to see one other than as a dot with a bit of magnification through my Telescope
I believe the C-133s flew via Mildenhall, presumably they couldn't reach the US non-stop from Dunsfold's 5500' runway. The first AV-8A delivery left there on 24th January 1971 on board 59-0536 (the last C-133 built).
A fainter noise from small childhood, around 1958-60, in Somerset, was a late night droning, which at that age in a darkened bedroom I regarded as somewhat eerie, which would last for several minutes, gradually fading away. I now believe it was DC7s and Constellations from Continental Europe heading for Shannon and a westbound Atlantic crossing.
