Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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I'm in Lightwater at present and heard the two C-130Hs pass more or less overhead! Nicer than the C130J bandsaw buzz...
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The Grobs were pretty low and really quite noisy, not overpoweringly loud but a very deep constant drone. Reminiscent of the films of bomber formations in WW2, y'know all in unison.
I'm more used to them doing aerobatic-type manouvres with associated changes in engine noise.
The EMB was pretty high but sounded quite muted to me.
I'm more used to them doing aerobatic-type manouvres with associated changes in engine noise.
The EMB was pretty high but sounded quite muted to me.
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The Grobs were pretty low and really quite noisy, not overpoweringly loud but a very deep constant drone. Reminiscent of the films of bomber formations in WW2, y'know all in unison.
I'm more used to them doing aerobatic-type manouvres with associated changes in engine noise.
The EMB was pretty high but sounded quite muted to me.
I'm more used to them doing aerobatic-type manouvres with associated changes in engine noise.
The EMB was pretty high but sounded quite muted to me.
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I believe the Thunderscreech needed to be several miles distant to be bearable, was there not a story about severe injury or even death for a one poor Air Force guy who copped an earful closeup?
Loudest aircraft I can recall hearing is probably the AN-22... or maybe the Space Shuttle setting sail from Cape Kennedy...
Loudest aircraft I can recall hearing is probably the AN-22... or maybe the Space Shuttle setting sail from Cape Kennedy...
I believe the Thunderscreech needed to be several miles distant to be bearable, was there not a story about severe injury or even death for a one poor Air Force guy who copped an earful closeup?
Loudest aircraft I can recall hearing is probably the AN-22... or maybe the Space Shuttle setting sail from Cape Kennedy...
Loudest aircraft I can recall hearing is probably the AN-22... or maybe the Space Shuttle setting sail from Cape Kennedy...
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Heard a Spitfire leaving Biggin just now, is it me or slightly different sound? It was actually their Mustang! First time I've heard it since it joined the team at Biggin.
See the Zeppelin is back and busy doing rides (presumably) out of Damyn's Hall. If it has a modern lighting system for advertising at night, I assume it's a LED Zeppelin...
Unlike standard propellers that turn at subsonic speeds, the outer 24–30 inches (61–76 cm) of the blades on the XF-84H's propeller travelled faster than the speed of sound even at idle thrust, producing a continuous visible sonic that radiated laterally from the propellers for hundreds of yards.
It arrived at Brize Norton in mid-April, via Honolulu, Sacramento and Halifax, since when it's spent much of its time shuttling between Slovakia and Finland, returning occasionally to BZZ.
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We're being invaded! By the Swiss! I can see five Swiss Army/AF EC-135s have crossed into Kent/Essex and heading north. An urgent delivery of penknives?
Pleased to see one of the new Spitfire T9s out of Biggin the other day, G-CLXB I think, restored from a wreck recovered in France. I believe G-AVAV has gone to new owners in Holland.
Pleased to see one of the new Spitfire T9s out of Biggin the other day, G-CLXB I think, restored from a wreck recovered in France. I believe G-AVAV has gone to new owners in Holland.
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TUI go-around at Gatwick
Any one know the cause?
Any one know the cause?
Meanwhile on the ground at BQH.....
Apparently owed by Bernie Ecclestone
Apparently owed by Bernie Ecclestone