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Ol Boc
03-09-07, 08:09 AM
....and flew past my bedroom window this morning!
tigersaw
03-09-07, 08:43 AM
Thats the view from your bedroom?
Kinvig
03-09-07, 08:51 AM
I propse a rideout!

Party at Ol Boc's pad...
Ol Boc
03-09-07, 09:28 AM
Okay....I exaggerated a bit for effect. It was taken from the old summerhouse we maintain at the eastern end of the Estate......

The view from the Castle walls was a little better, but the staff were slow in getting the horses hitched to the carriage to take me up there in time.....

Oh, and it's the A380. And boy, is it BIG!!
Alpinestarhero
03-09-07, 12:05 PM
I propse a rideout!

Party at Ol Boc's pad...

Seconded!

Matt
TimTucker
03-09-07, 12:13 PM
Well, that photo must be at least ten years' old, as the Nimrod is flying over the harbour in Hong Kong. Photo taken from somewhere in Causeway Bay, I think.

If the RAF tried that these days, they would get shot down!
Ol Boc
03-09-07, 03:51 PM
Well, that photo must be at least ten years' old, as the Nimrod* is flying over the harbour in Hong Kong. Photo taken from somewhere in Causeway Bay, I think.

If the RAF tried that these days, they would get shot down!

Errr.......it's the Airbus A380 actually!

But you got the location.....low pass over Victoria Harbour this morning (twice). Amazingly, whilst it could be seen alright, it is incredibly quiet and could hardly be heard.

*Note to Hong Kong AA gunners: Nimrods are the ones with engines in the wing roots! :)
Pedrosa
03-09-07, 05:02 PM
When I read the title, I feared that Ol Boc had dropped his pants in front of an apprciative audience!:p
Wideboy
03-09-07, 05:07 PM
im lucky my house is directly under the warbirds flight path for Southampton airport so i get spitfires, hurricanes, the Lancaster etc etc flying low over my house utterly fantastic

when it was VE day celebrations (i think) and they had that huge fly down Southampton water with spits etc wee had them circling our house all week end was so amazing
tigersaw
03-09-07, 06:22 PM
im lucky my house is directly under the warbirds flight path for Southampton airport so i get spitfires, hurricanes, the Lancaster etc etc flying low over my house utterly fantastic



Did you see the Lancaster come over Sat afternoon with the Spitfire wingman?
It came right over my house, really low. Nothing to do with my job, no no not at all.
Alpinestarhero
03-09-07, 06:29 PM
Theres a guy who regulalry practises his stunting in his plan in the skies above my house, he comes from shoreham airport. He sometimes flies a fantastic sounding plane, me and my dad think its a V12 merlin engine or something

Matt
TimTucker
03-09-07, 08:26 PM
Errr.......it's the Airbus A380 actually!

But you got the location.....low pass over Victoria Harbour this morning (twice). Amazingly, whilst it could be seen alright, it is incredibly quiet and could hardly be heard.

*Note to Hong Kong AA gunners: Nimrods are the ones with engines in the wing roots! :)

Time to book myself an opticians appointment, methinks. It was the body shape that fooled me, but I somehow missed the four enormous engines hanging under the wings!

It it really that much quieter than your standard widebody jet?
Wideboy
03-09-07, 09:05 PM
Did you see the Lancaster come over Sat afternoon with the Spitfire wingman?
It came right over my house, really low. Nothing to do with my job, no no not at all.

yeah it had two spit escorts when it passed me one must have flown off, also had a couple of hurricanes buzzing my house on Saturday aswell
Ol Boc
04-09-07, 05:16 AM
Time to book myself an opticians appointment, methinks. It was the body shape that fooled me, but I somehow missed the four enormous engines hanging under the wings!

It it really that much quieter than your standard widebody jet?

For sure the gunners couldn't have missed the target!

I haven't heard it take off yet, so what I say is very subjective, but it wafted past the hotel almost without a sound - one of my colleagues was on the roof in the pool, and missed it! A sort of low drone like a regular wb jet, but I would say quieter still.
Wideboy
04-09-07, 06:17 PM
widebody jet?

I OWN A JET!!!! oh yeah my SV silly billy
timwilky
04-09-07, 08:43 PM
I used to love flying into Kai Tak, just to see the faces of the first timers. Chek Lap Kok (stupid name) has no soul.


Seeing as you are near to my old stamping ground, get yourself up to Jimmys kitchen for a bite. Or take the Star Ferry up the Perl river to catch something nasty in Shajiao.