nib1980
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 05:50 PM |
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Old School Engineering in action
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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mookaloid
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 06:02 PM |
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awsome
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 06:03 PM |
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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
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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macspeedy
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 06:09 PM |
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f**k yeah !
take it he would not pass a trackday noise test. 
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Stott
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 06:12 PM |
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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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coozer
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 06:14 PM |
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quote:
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
Wish that was me, instead of the force helicopter
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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mackei23b
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 06:19 PM |
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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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dmac
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 06:27 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by macspeedy
f**k yeah !
take it he would not pass a trackday noise test.
I suspect a standard noise meter would fall apart if held a metre from a Vulcan exhaust.
I was working at Woodford when they went out of service and the last one did a flypast, everyone on the site was out by the runway watching, it did a
nice slow pass then a full throttle climb out, awesome noise!
Duncan
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55ant
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 06:54 PM |
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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!
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zilspeed
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 06:58 PM |
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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.
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 09:26 PM |
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I was in Shropshire about 20 years ago when one flew over at about 200 feet, the ground was shaking!
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Chippy
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| posted on 29/8/09 at 10:40 PM |
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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
To make a car go faster, just add lightness. Colin Chapman - OR - fit a bigger engine. Chippy
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Gav
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| posted on 30/8/09 at 12:51 AM |
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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
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trextr7monkey
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| posted on 30/8/09 at 07:34 AM |
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Last one I heard passed over mysecondary school very low just before it crashed 
Quite a while a go now
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14016102@N00/ (cut and paste this dodgey link)
Our most recent pics are here:
http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/trextr7monkey/
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MikeR
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| posted on 30/8/09 at 08:36 AM |
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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.
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wilkingj
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| posted on 30/8/09 at 09:39 AM |
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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
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
http://www.v8viento.co.uk
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richard thomas
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| posted on 30/8/09 at 05:09 PM |
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quote:
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
I think that was the only real active action the Vulcan saw.....?
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