woo-hoo

as it's my burfday, 21 again, the wife's taking me to East Fortune whre they've got one of these

happy day indeed

Concorde too innit?

Must go one day.

My step Dad was in the navy and we would regularly attend the annual air days that each of the airbases would put on.

One of my most vivid memories was from the 1984 air day at RNAS Yeovilton. I can remember a Vulcan bomber flying low over the runway and then opening the throttle and igniting the afterburners as it started to climb at a seemingly impossible angle skywards!

The noise was phenomonal and really was awesome 😀

They have one of these at Duxford Imperial War Museum too.

Worked at RNAS Yeovilton for a few years and remember watching a South African Airways 747 doing steep turns at low level and being right near the edge of the runway watching! Also saw the big Russian transporters taking off and seeming to fly and climb so slowly, being blue and white made them look so huge against the low hills in the distance and just added to the illusion that made you think they shouldn't be able to stay in the air!

Ho Hum – I have similar memories of a pilot doing something similar at RAF Finningly when i was a little kid. He came in over the runway in an F1-11 at what seemed an ill-advisedly low height, then lit up the afterburners and put it into what looked like a near vertical climb. Truly awesome!!!

Vulcans don't have afterburners! Concord did though (although over here we call it re-heat).

Vulcans don't have afterburners! Concord did though (although over here we call it re-heat).

[pedant mode] well, technically Vulcan XA903 did have one engine with re-heat, (tornado testbed) but it also had four without [/end]

Rockhopper – Member
Vulcans don't have afterburners! Concord did though (although over here we call it re-heat).

Okay, fair enough.

Whatever the pilot did it certainly increased the noise factor 100+ times and it was awesome!

on M40 this morning saw the lancaster fling towards oxford very low think due to the cloud/mist very moody could not get the camera out quick enough

Saw the vulcan flying at leuchars last year, in fact the airshow is this sat, fingers crossed for good weather! Just checked, it's flying again this year 11:30. Woo and hoo!

was at duxford on saturday for the battle of britain 70th,

amazing seeing 16 spitfires in the air playing together, couldn't help
thinking the pilots must be having the time of thier lives 😀

added bonus is bletchley park (station X) is at the top of the road i live
on and sunday i had the pleasure of a lancaster flypast while it was on it's way to duxford, normally get around 4-5 of these every summer, including hurricane,spitfire, red arrows (only once this summer) and some nutjob in a dakota hwo likes to skim the chimneys for 15 mins

Battle of Britian Memorial Flight show / flypast schedules here.

There's also a couple of droolworthy vids on that site.

A Spitfire flew over Rivington when I'd just ridden to the top of the Pike the other week. Heard the Rolls Royce Merlin before I saw it. There are few things sound better than that

As the pilot came over he nonchalantly barrel rolled it. Very cool! I was dead jealous

As a kid, my brother wrote to Jim'll Fix It so he could fly a Spitfire.

Bastid didn't fix it for him though did he? Poor lad never recovered.

Get your Merlin Engine soundtrack fix here.

saw the vulcan at farnborough, boy is that thing loud!

also saw the f22 raptor at farnborough, boy is that thing agile.

STW – what a bunch of spotters you lot are. Faces pressed against the chain link fence and stepladders and telephoto lenses! Aircraft – nowt but an embuggerance!

At the annual BAe Woodford airshow, when I were a lad, we used to go to my mate's farm that ran adjacent to the runway. Sitting on a farm gate, as a Lightning stands on it's tail about 20 yds away and just rockets skywards is a memory I shall always treasure 🙂

I was in a field in the middle of nowhere last week doing a video shoot watching two RAF Tornados dogfighting overhead.

The sound would have been amazing if it wasn't for the fact WE NEEDED SOME BLOODY QUIET SO WE COULD DO THE FILMING IN THE BLOODY FIELD IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE THAT WE EXPECTED TO BE QUIET WOULD BE QUIET!!!!

had the pleasure to live in cyprus 1969-1972 vulcans lightings and cambras daily riping the roof of the school 1 taking off is noisey try having 10 go up together could be why my hearing is a little poor these days, best was when 3 vulcans came in low over the houses to get under the radar and took the the roofing tiles with them as a young boy of 7 this was so much fun

when I were a lass we used to go to RAF Coltishall to watch the Lightnings take off. Awesome. This year at the Biggin Hill airshow they had a WW2 plane being tailgated by a modern warplane. Also awesome. Didn't know modern planes could fly that slow. The difference in size hr staggering.

I've just been watching 2 Hawks out of Leeming dogfighting with a Harrier overhead. Great fun, those Hawks are rather nippy, they make excellent aggressor aircraft!

The sound would have been amazing if it wasn't for the fact WE NEEDED SOME BLOODY QUIET SO WE COULD DO THE FILMING IN THE BLOODY FIELD IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE THAT WE EXPECTED TO BE QUIET WOULD BE QUIET!!!!

Porno! 😆

xh558 is 50 this year. 😯

The cold war jets open days at Bruntingthorpe are pretty good fun (but fifteen quid entry) with lots of old skool jets in various states or airworthiness or disrepair including 558, a Victor and 2 looovely RAE canberras. I remember having a poke around inside one of them a few years ago when my father in law (volunteers for the vulcan peeps) had me up there for some 'bonding'. 😀