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| Was walking into town after the reserve game and mentioned it to the missus as it roared overhead. "What's a Vulcan?"   |
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Red Arrows flew over my house yesterday.
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| Quote Grego="Grego"Just got back from the airshow, it was great. Last chance to see the Vulcan fly at one of those i think though unfortunately (as hogan says) as it costs about £1.5 million a year to keep it up there. A great shame imo as it is fantastic to watch at low level. Like you say, a very loud aircraft, although the Typhoon trumped it on that card. Bloody deafening that thing is and extreemely impressive to watch. Will post one or two picks from my phone when i get a chance.'"
Remember seeing the Vulcan at the Barton Airshow (same aircraft XH55icon_cool.gif before it was grounded..the announcer said they would try to keep the noise down due to complaints from the previous year.................from Birmingham |
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| Quote roo67="roo67"i saw the vulcan at the dawlish air show in august. the pilot came in and then went vertical at full throttle. i could feel my fillings rattling!'"
I was there too...awesome display.
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I first saw a Vulcan in flight a long time ago when I was at St. Andrews as a 16 year old for a week looking around at the Uni. On the last day our train was later on so we were walking on the beech and one flew in not very high at all. You could easily make out eh pilot looking out!
One of the loudest planes I have seen was Concorde. This did a low level fly past at Brands Hatch at a British Grand Prix and did a very un-airliner type manoeuvre of almost going straight up - the ground literally shook.
This also reminds me of one of my Uncles who was visiting relatives in Canada when Concorde was due to make it's maiden flight to the USA. They when down to see it land and there was apparently a massive queue of cars waiting to get in and park up. While waiting in the queue someone came up and was handing out leaflets protesting about he plane and the noise it made. When they offered one to my Uncle he refused to take one. When asked why his replay was - Because I'm British!
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It's the only Vulcan flying, and was only re-conditioned last year to get it back up in the air as the public had missed it so much - let's hope it stays there, eh?
I'm from the West Coast of Scotland originally, and Concorde used to do its pilot test flights and landings (circuits and bumps!) around that area, often flying past the house - damn, that was loud, but think the Vulcan beats it for sheer volume when it wants to!
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Aaah, so that's what it was.
I saw that from my balcony at Trencherfield Mill.
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| Quote Jaybee="Jaybee"It's the only Vulcan flying, and was only re-conditioned last year to get it back up in the air as the public had missed it so much - let's hope it stays there, eh?
I'm from the West Coast of Scotland originally, and Concorde used to do its pilot test flights and landings (circuits and bumps!) around that area, often flying past the house - damn, that was loud, but think the Vulcan beats it for sheer volume when it wants to!'"
makes it sound like a Radio Rentals telly, but hopefully more reliable |
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| Quote JTB="JTB"Hows about [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfQwDizpRothis[/url?'"
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Sorry for trolling chaps but saw this thread and as its my fav aircraft well.....
used to go on GMP driving courses to RAF Scampton In Lincs and watch them take off, bl00dy noisy or what... but exhilarating even your fillings shook, then the RAF police would come a snooping and have a chat, ahh happy days ....well back to Ch 1 bye.
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| Quote wigan pie man="wigan pie man"been a few flying over ours all weekend.
i once went to the airshow....awesome, but gets boring after a bit.
and if anyone thinks the sound of the red arrows going over is noisy, what about the fighter jets that train around north wales?
i once went to RAF Valley in anglesey, where they are based. Theres a spot you can stand in at the end of the runway.
you can watch them accelerate along the runway coming directly at you, then at last second they take off and fly straight over your head with a deafening roar..........not for the faint hearted
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