Dutton Kit Cars and their owners
HX558
About thirty minutes ago, whilst wearing ear defenders and using an angle grinder, I heard a loud noise, thought a plane was coming down in the field behind my house... turns out we were on the flight path for The Vulcan, XH558's farewell tour.
Had the flight plan been a little more accurate I would have been on the garage roof with the tripod and all the cameras. Suffice to say I saw the back end at about 1000ft above my house and made it to the front to get a nice view of the rest as it flew over. I'm sure I must have something in my eye from the angle grinder for surely the sight of a 60 year old warbird isn't enough to make a grumpy old man cry... or is it?
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Permalink Reply by Adrian Southgate on
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Actually just checked the flight plan and oops, my bad. Now I feel stoopid in the extreme...
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Skyport (Heathrow) telephone exchange is triple glazed and most planes are just a dull woosh. Concorde still made yer fillings rattle and yes it set off car alarms.
Never had the privilege of seeing a lightning fly but have seen Phantoms and Harriers. The Harrier has a different sort of noise as the pressure wave from the VTOL system travels sideways away from the point of impact with the ground and as its a reflected sound wave its not as crisp as the direct wave from a normally configured plane.
I want to know when they will be flying a Harrier at the air displays, surely they haven't scrapped them all yet? Of course the conspiracy theorist in me says they have all been mothballed 'just in case'
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Permalink Reply by James Doulton on
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The Vulcan flew directly over our house in 2011 as part of its display for the Airbus families day - I live about 1 mile from the edge of the airfield (when it was an airfield). The Vulcan was loud. It did a few circuits, one with the bomb doors open and one with a bit of extra throttle. When our ears recovered we could hear dozens of car alarms going off. Compared to the Vulcan, the A380 whispered as it flew over. Both were fascinating but in different ways.
This Monday we had a presentation at work from a retired pilot who mostly flew Harriers and was the squadron leader for the Red Arrows for a couple of years. He loved the Harriers. It almost brought tears to his eyes when he talked about the decision to do away with them just when they were getting a new engine with an extra 3000 lbs of thrust.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Kerswell on
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https://m.facebook.com/VulcanXH558/photos/a.175141942516809.38145.1... get your panoramas on, yawn :-)
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