Not what I expected to see
 

Sat in the garden about an hour ago enjoing a beer and a BBQ....:thumb:

Look up to see the Vulcan Bomber cruising towards us at a very low altitude, made a very graceful bank to the right to show the full wing profile and disappeared off into the sunset.....:notworthy:notworthy

Just made the night for me...

Paul

How many beers? :Suspiciou :D

just the one thanks:thumb:

You lucky man, 2013 could be its last year for flying.

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/4...t-in-2013.html

:D

I was on the golf course many years ago and Concorde flew overhead really low. Like you it made my day as it was unexpected. :thumb:

I know, that is so sad.....

Living where I do I seem to be on a lot of the display routes, regularly have the BBM flight go over, this was just totally unexpected.

Tried to do a bit of digging to see where it was off to but unsuccessful. Its based at Doncaster and the next due display is not until the 9th June in Welshpool...

Paul

Much more fun to turn the graceful turn into a climb into a vertical wingover rolling the aircraft to the inverted to bring the nose back down to the horizon and a controlled recovery to level flight!

Les ;)

Leslie pops down to the shops.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNV4y...ature=youtu.be

This trio of Vulcans do it for me :)


The howl at 0:19 is bloody eerie !!

The second, shows how far away the sound can be heard lol

The third is just sheer power :notworthy




:notworthy:notworthy:notworthy

Absolutley bloody awesome

Mart

May not be according to Wikkipedia, apparantly Cranfield areospace (sp)

may be able to extend her flight time beyond 2013 :notworthy:notworthy:notworthy

I bloody well hope so :thumb::thumb:

Mart

That 3rd youtube vid at yeovilton -:eek::eek:

Bet they needed new eardrums after that - fcuk me they were close to line!!

I did a display at Yeovilton, not sure that is me flying the one shown,maybe not. During that display a German pilot tried to do a very tight final turn in his F104 and the aircraft stalled and flicked into the ground. Wrong move! I took off for my display just after that happened. The so called "awesome landing" one could easily be me because I used to do a lowlevel circuit and play the final turn so that I did not level the wings until just before touchdown and then do a roller landing to take off for the rest of the display. We all had our own display sequence, the only thing you had to get right was the length of time that the display took.

Can't tell you how much I miss doing that kind of hooliganism!

Les

The guy on the 3rd vid all crackly winds me up! If your gonna record at least rent a tripod.

Must say that howl noise is bloody awesome.. :cuckoo:

wonder how much it costs to hire for a private party

That's very cool. I have not seen a Vulcan fly for years. I do get to see The Lancaster bomber from time to time. In fact it flew over my house the other week. Nothing like the sound of 4 merlin engines.

Just listen to it again,it's kinda Eerie but cool too,what causes that noise....

Leslie will tell you tomorrow.........!

44 tons of sheer thrust!

Les ;)

:cool:

I was expecting some big technical response. :lol1:

I don't believe it,was in the bedroom and i could hear a humming sound coming over the house,i looked out the window and seen a plane fly over,it was green, had 4 engines and a star under the right wing,i went to get my phone to take a pic but it had flew behind the tree,damn that would of been a great pic,it was flying really low too.
It looked a bit like the one in this pic.

http://www.aviationspectator.com/fil...77.preview.jpg

Where are you mate?

About an hour ago a B17 Bomber trundled over my place over here by Santa pod, my guess was it was on it way back to Duxford...

I love where I live

In the last 2 weeks, Lancaster, Vulcan and B17..... just superb:luxhello::luxhello:

Paul

looking at the pictures and remembering in my head what it looked like,I'd say a B17 is exactly what it is,just a pity these things fly over when you not expecting it,really would of liked to got a pic of it.

I'm in Warwickshire area.

was the cosford air show today so chances are it was going towards or away from there i went to a airshow yesterday in pershore that had a typhoon doing a display i cant believe how loud those things are all the cars alarms in the car park were going off it was unreal

The explanation is in the other thread!

Les ;)

I did 3 years at Pershore a long time ago. I thought it was a glider airfield now.

Les

It may still be it didn't look like a busy runway I think it was just a one day thing