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18-06-23, 03:43 PM | #1 |
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Peace is disturbed
It is Armed Forces Weekend at Cleethorpes and, for the second day, the Typhoon demonstrator has been showing what large amounts of power in a small airframe can do. I live about half a mile from the seafront but as the Typhoon turned away I could see the orange glow from the afterburners followed by the intense noise that rattled your bones.
Watching an aircraft go from near stall speed into a vertical climb is impressive though. Unusually, this year, they had the Spitfire and Hurricane on their own and then later the Lancaster which was tailed by the Typhoon (flying in a very nose up attitude, presumably to keep pace). After the Lancaster departed the noise began.
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18-06-23, 06:46 PM | #2 |
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Re: Peace is disturbed
The noise and spectacle of a fighter on full reheat is something else, isn't it?
When I was a nipper in the 70s, my uncle worked at the British Aerospace factory at Brough. They had an annual airshow and we used to get special tickets. Lightnings, Phantoms, F-111s and Buccaneers all giving it full noise. I clearly remember the Lightning and Phantom both going near-vertical almost as soon as their nose-wheels were off the ground, and the cones of blue flame from the tailpipes. There was also the Vulcan lifting off with its 4 Olympus engines screaming. As you say, the noise shook you physically. |
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