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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Bush Tucker Man on June 24, 2007, 00:04:56
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Almost forgot!
(how could I??)
We were approaching jct 31 of the M62 this afternoon, when the noise of a piston engined aircraft made me look up (thankfully I had the window open)
It was only the Lancaster cruising overhead at about 2,000 foot!!
What a wonderful noise it made.
Sadly I couldn't pull over to watch it, but I lost sight of it after about 30 seconds.
I consider myself blessed for that
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WOW! you are lucky, I belive there are only two still flying. one here and one in canada.
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Yes indeide at the moment there are only two. Have seen the lancaster flying over the house by us the other weekend coming back for raf cosford airshow. think it is about the nicest sounding plane going.
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I've been to East Kirkby & seen 'Just Jane' doing her taxi-runs. Now that's a beautiful sight & noise.
Plus..... I was lucky enough to be there when they had the 2-seater Spitfire 'fly-pasting'
(http://thumb12.webshots.net/s/thumb4/3/83/23/149738323DtNNir_th.jpg) (http://rides.webshots.com/album/149735865yZdsET)
http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/ (they're doing a tail-up' taxi in Jluy!!!)
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Been around just jane last year and watch and felt her taxi run. Its has a very good museam as well. May just have to go back and see the tail up taxi run. Must say though when you read the web site for them it sounds like jane runs along the runway so i was a bit diaponted by the fact its only a very short stratch. Still a nice sight to see.
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On a similar theme...a couple of days ago I heard the sound of a modern aircraft flying overhead....I looked up to see a low flying Eurofighter overhead...at this point the pilot pointed the craft upwards,lit his afterburners and took off...oh boy what a fabulous noise....was I green with envy.................
Smithy
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Where we used to live in Norfolk seemed to be a favourite practice area for the USAF pilots doing their 'dog fights'. One guy got bored one night and produced this. Luckily my mate had his camera with him. It was a windless evening so it stayed there for ages. Quite impressive!
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That is impressive
A few years back we had a Spitfire and Hurricane 'dogfighting' about 100ft above the roof tops at our house. It was amazing to here the engines that close.
Just wish I had the camera, it was like a scene out of Battle of Britain!!
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Had a Dakota fly past low a couple of weeks ago complete with D-Day recognition stripes on the wings
That said a Lanc in flight is a sight to behold
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That is impressive
A few years back we had a Spitfire and Hurricane 'dogfighting' about 100ft above the roof tops at our house. It was amazing to here the engines that close.
Just wish I had the camera, it was like a scene out of Battle of Britain!!
Last year there was a Spitfire & ME109 dog-fighting' at the airshow at Breighton.
Now that was scarily real
I'll have to check the dates for this year
http://www.realaero.com/
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If you love the sound of a merlin at full bore click this link and turn up your speakers!! http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetrAzQ/merlin.wav
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That is impressive
A few years back we had a Spitfire and Hurricane 'dogfighting' about 100ft above the roof tops at our house. It was amazing to here the engines that close.
Just wish I had the camera, it was like a scene out of Battle of Britain!!
Last year there was a Spitfire & ME109 dog-fighting' at the airshow at Breighton.
Now that was scarily real
I'll have to check the dates for this year
http://www.realaero.com/
Is it a real 109?...thought there was only a replica?
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WOW! you are lucky, I belive there are only two still flying. one here and one in canada.
I was in Canada and went to an airshow where they had several WW11 planes on show, was called dogs of war show or summat.
The Canadian Lanc did a few low level passes than landed and taxied to the show area.
I couldn't beleive it when they then invited all and sundry to climb the steps and actually go onboard.The queue was massive but they stayed on the ground until the queue had gone.
I had a natter to the groundcrew & pilots and they said there is a plan to get both Lancs together in the UK for a show... not sure when though.
Theirs sounds totally different to ours .... apparently its due to the prop trim and lower revs they prefer to use.
The most amazing thing was they let the public climb all over it ...... A museum piece yet still available for everyone to investgate, not like the one we fly here.
Makes you wonder eh ?
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We were approaching jct 31 of the M62 this afternoon
Small world! Not sure where junction 31 is, but we were coming through Howden when it was first spotted. Got onto the M62 just in time to see it flying down the Ouse.
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We were approaching jct 31 of the M62 this afternoon
Small world! Not sure where junction 31 is, but we were coming through Howden when it was first spotted. Got onto the M62 just in time to see it flying down the Ouse.
Junction 31 is the exit for Castleford/Wakefield, next-one west after 'Xscape' (32), FerryBridge (interchange with the A1, & the services) is 33.
We saw it at at some point between 14:30 - 14:45.
I don't know if he was following the M62, as it banked around to roughly follow the continuation towards the interchange with the m1
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At the Watercress line this weekend they had a "War on the line" weekend and there was a flypass of a Hurricane on Saturday. Lovely sound.
Neil
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we get them all fly over our place when the farnborough air show is on.
i remember watching all 3 concordes come over for their last landing at heathrow.
got a great picture of them in the stack.
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Just looked at the display roster (http://www.bbmf.co.uk/june07.html) & it was on its way to Leeds, then onto RAF Leeming
(if the locations are in order?)
Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight (http://www.bbmf.co.uk)
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If you love the sound of a merlin at full bore click this link and turn up your speakers!! http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetrAzQ/merlin.wav
Glorious!!
But, try another 4 cylinders worth, but only 1,500cc (& supercharged)
http://www.billzilla.org/BRM-loudpass.mp3
Turn it up LOUD!!!!
(BRM V-16)
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We get a lot of them, what with it being home of the Spitfire down here. Parents last house backed onto Supermarine :)
Saw what looked like two spitfires, a hurricane, some very early jet, triplane and two biplanes (Tiger moths?) over portsdown hill a month or so back, no idea what they were doing, looked like they were all dogfighting together. Old Biplane sure are slow compared to the slightly newer planes and looked sooo flimsy, and yet elegant in a strange way.
Got a flypast of 3 CF16s for 9/11 too, remeber hearing them, looking up and realising something was very wrong to have military aircraft over the city. Somewhere I have a pic of one fully armed sat on the runway at Calgary airport.
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Glorious!!
But, try another 4 cylinders worth, but only 1,500cc (& supercharged)
http://www.billzilla.org/BRM-loudpass.mp3
Turn it up LOUD!!!!
:(biggrin): Love it!!! I was always under the impression it was an H16 layout? Not that I care greatly, it's one of those fantastic noises that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand on end, what more could I ask.
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If you love the sound of a merlin at full bore click this link and turn up your speakers!! http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetrAzQ/merlin.wav
Glorious!!
But, try another 4 cylinders worth, but only 1,500cc (& supercharged)
http://www.billzilla.org/BRM-loudpass.mp3
Turn it up LOUD!!!!
(BRM V-16)
Just played this LOUD and her indoors said "What's that noise", to which I replied "that's not noise love, that's sweet music"!. :D
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Love it!!! I was always under the impression it was an H16 layout? Not that I care greatly, it's one of those fantastic noises that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand on end, what more could I ask.
Nope, definately a V16, and what figures!!!
Bore; 49.53mm.
Stroke; 47.8mm.
Capacity; 1,496cc.
Power; 600bhp. @ 12,000rpm
http://members.madasafish.com/~d_hodgkinson/brm-V16.htm
Auto-Union V16 start-up (http://www.ianmacfarlane.co.uk/images/movie/auStartUp.rm)
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It was playing over RAF Leeming on Sunday, going really low!
Sounded soooo much better than a tonka.
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Love it!!! I was always under the impression it was an H16 layout? Not that I care greatly, it's one of those fantastic noises that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand on end, what more could I ask.
According one site (the one that the soundfile came from?) Stirling Moss refused to drive the BRM!
The sampled car belongs to Nick Mason (of Pink Floyd fame)