>> www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Video-Restored-to-former-glory-14032012.htm
"Work on the jet, which first arrived in Cambridgeshire in 1953, was carried out after it was found to lack an engine..."
They must have brought the experts in :)
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I should be able to hear that flying around the sky while I am at the office (Melbourn village within 2 miles of Duxford).
It's nice working away at the desk in the height of summer with spitfires darting around the sky.
More Merlin's please !
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Vampire rises from the dead.
Who would have thought it?
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just checked, its going to be a static display aircraft.
boo hoo. I was hoping to have it flying around the sky's :-(
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>> Vampire rises from the dead.
>> Who would have thought it?
>> just checked, its going to be a static display aircraft.
So its just a madam Madame Tussauds vampire then.
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I remember being sat in my MGB in the summer, with the top down, waiting at the lights in South Ruislip. Suddenly overhead was the most fearsome racket I have ever heard in my life.
That'll be the Battle of Britain flight going into Northolt at a sniff above treetop height.
Having once been in a similar situation with Concorde overhead, close to the runway at LHR, I reckon several Merlins all going at once is significantly louder than four Olympuses.
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eight.
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>> Having once been in a similar situation with Concorde overhead, close to the runway at
>> LHR, I reckon several Merlins all going at once is significantly louder than four Olympuses.
Ooo no , its not.
You need to be 1/2 mile out at the end of the runway as concorde took off over you fully loaded with the engines on reheat. Painful on the ears with a noise that actually makes your skin prickle and the car windows vibrate.
Last edited by: Zero on Wed 14 Mar 12 at 17:10
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>> Ooo no , its not.
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>> You need to be 1/2 mile out at the end of the runway as concorde
>> took off over you fully loaded with the engines on reheat. Painful on the ears
>> with a noise that actually makes your skin prickle and the car windows vibrate.
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Oh yes and all the car alarms go off as a chorus!
I have my own video of Concorde taking off the East on the last night trip from LHR.
That was taken a few yards from where the BA 777 pancaked.
Living TEN miles SE of LHR , Concorde taking off Westward could easily be heard from my garden.
I miss the sound .
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>> Ooo no , its not.
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>> You need to be 1/2 mile out at the end of the runway as concorde
>> took off over you fully loaded with the engines on reheat. Painful on the ears
>> with a noise that actually makes your skin prickle and the car windows vibrate.
Only time I've ever seen sound crack glass was while in Hatton Cross underground with a Concorde going off 10R - this was c1978.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Wed 14 Mar 12 at 20:31
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havnt times changed, thanks to elf n safety you cant exceed 250 kts below 10,000 feet....and there are noise abatement areas on most approach plates
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>> Ooo no , its not.
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>> You need to be 1/2 mile out at the end of the runway as concorde
>> took off over you fully loaded with the engines on reheat. Painful on the ears
>> with a noise that actually makes your skin prickle and the car windows vibrate.
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Can beat that with something that still happens today - being stood a few yards from a Lightning on full reheat at Bruntingthorpe. Now that is so loud you can feel it through your bones!
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>> >> www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Video-Restored-to-former-glory-14032012.htm
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>> "Work on the jet, which first arrived in Cambridgeshire in 1953, was carried out after
>> it was found to lack an engine..."
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>> They must have brought the experts in :)
You'll find an engine in there somewhere, you cant miss it....
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I believe that both a Vampire and Venom are still airworthy at Airbase Coventry.
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I was amazed to see one on the far side of a field between Henley and Wargrave. Not sure exactly what type - it's a big field!
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There's a static one at the local Airforce museum.
Unbelieveable how small it seems, compared to modern aircraft.
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theres a vampire that visitors can sit in at DeHavilland museum neat St. Albans.
as a matter of fact there are quite a lot of aircraft you can sit in there.
also the prototype mosquito as well.
worth a visit and a fraction of the cost of Duxford as well
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originally called the spider crab according to my flip over calendar
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One flew over our house about 10 years ago (north Pembrokeshire). At least I think it was a Vampire - it had that double tail thing and was bright orange.
It was flying up the valley with an altitude that appeared to be lower than the house, coming straight towards me. At what looked like the last minute it suddenly tilted backwards and the pilot must have put his foot to the floorboards. There was a terrific roar and it powered low overhead, streaming trails of black smoke.
It felt pretty scary, imagining that the pilot had suddenly panicked and realised he was so low, but I know planes are never actually as low as they seem from the ground.
But I have watched those big 4 engine Hercules lumber up the valley flying very low - very close because we have sometimes waved to the pilot.
A few years ago there was a noise like a WW II aerial dogfight outside, and it was some vintage aeroplane, looking like a Spitfire to my ignorant eyes, circling the house and diving down the valley.
I think we must be a known landmark for amateur fliers - a lone house overlooking a valley, and probably fun to circle and pretend to shoot-up.
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Vampire jet restoration - Focusless
