HI All
We just had a suprise visitor ABOVE our house.
Demonstrating real engineering in action, Made me laugh as at about 3000ft he opened up the engines and set all the local car alarms off.
managed to get a few shots off, but didn;t really get the camera setup properly in time
Best regards
Nib
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i have the same problem with spitfires during the summer,one tried to run me over whilst i was out walking my dog....but i forgave him
f**k yeah !
take it he would not pass a trackday noise test. 
There's one sited (static) at an air museum by the old mans house in Ruskington, It's fantastic, I can't stop staring at it when
I'm there.
Also, what gets me is the engineering and materials that go into the rocket engines powering the blue steel missile, just to fly it at the floor at
mach 2, nuts...........
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Originally posted by theconrodkid
i have the same problem with spitfires during the summer,one tried to run me over whilst i was out walking my dog....but i forgave him
What a machine. I had a lancaster fly over the house at a couple of hundred feet, what a site and sound!
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Originally posted by macspeedy
f**k yeah !
take it he would not pass a trackday noise test.
that is awsome! i am lucky enough to live right near duxford, it is anoying having to stop doing stuff and watch when 4 spitfires start buzzing around!
We went to the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch in 1983.
A Vulcan did a flypast at low speed and it is a sound that I won't ever forget.
I've heard plenty of loud stuff in my time, but for shear unadulterated brute force SPL, this thing was completely and utterly insane.
I'm sure the air above Brands is still recovering.
I was in Shropshire about 20 years ago when one flew over at about 200 feet, the ground was shaking!
Very interesting book about the first RAF attack on the Faulklands/Malvinas. done by a Vulcan supported by Victor tankers, (25 of them) title VULCAN 607 well worth a read. Cheers Ray
That was the last active action seen by the Vulcan IIRC, their was a channel 4 program about the V-Force bombers built for the cold war, superb
Last one I heard passed over mysecondary school very low just before it crashed 
Quite a while a go now
They had one do a fly past in Coventry when they 'unveiled' / 'opened' a statue to some engine designer bloke
(think about it)
I was having my lunch by the M6 2 /3 miles away and it did a turn near us. I just stood in the road watching it - luckily its an access road to a
hotel otherwise i might have got run over.
Many many years ago, a couple of American pilots low level buzzed the control tower of a RAF airfield in their F111's.
A couple of weeks later, a Vulcan did a Tail Stand (its party Piece) on their Tower as retalliation
Its an awesome sight seeing this.
unfortunately many have been broken up for the titanium main wing spar. Thats almost criminal
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Originally posted by Gav
That was the last active action seen by the Vulcan IIRC, their was a channel 4 program about the V-Force bombers built for the cold war, superb