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DXP55

DXP55

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I was out in garden cutting the lawn when I heard this droning noise - Looked up and coming straight at me very low was a Lancaster bomber.
Of course I dropped everything and jumped up and down waving my arm's.
Shame the spitfire and Huricane wasn't with it.
I have now seen all three together and todays single plane from my back gardens.
I am assuming it stopped off at Cosford to refuel as it was coming from that direction

Made my day.:).
 
DXP55 said:
I was out in garden cutting the lawn when I heard this droning noise - Looked up and coming straight at me very low was a Lancaster bomber.
Of course I dropped everything and jumped up and down waving my arm's.
Shame the spitfire and Huricane wasn't with it.
I have now seen all three together and todays single plane from my back gardens.
I am assuming it stopped off at Cosford to refuel as it was coming from that direction

Made my day.:).
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arm is what?
 
We used to go to Southend airshow as kids and I've seen so many "cool" aeroplanes..... Vulcan, the Lancaster spitfire hurricane, hovering harriers. I think an EE lightning, P38s.... F14s

They did it all back then it was like HSE didn't exist in the mid/late 80s.

Now 30 years later I'd definitely appreciate it even more lol

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Went to Brum airport to see Concord do it's last runs before it was grounded -
Not long after I met the other half we were driving towards Kings heath in Brum and all of a sudden the car vibrated like hell - looked around and there was a Vulcan just in front of us giving it full throttle vertical.
There was a park carnival going on and Vulcan was highlight -Certainly shook us up.

EE is my favourite fighter jet of all time.
 
I heard it as we were at the garden center just down from cosford, we'd literally just walked inside as it came overhead which was a shame!
 
Me the missus and her son went to Bowness on Windermere the other day and hired an electric boat , went out into the middle of the lake then got a nice fly over by a low flying Typhoon , then a few minutes later had another fly over

Not quite the howl of a Vulcan bomber but still an awesome powerful noise
 
After reading that Tom I realised I meant Shawbury Air base -I am quite a bit off the A41 so perhaps it did a flypast or something at Shawbury.
Wife had a better look than me and she said it was banking to the right which would have put him over Whitchurch and A41/.
What ever - at least I have seen another one.
 
JBuk said:
Me the missus and her son went to Bowness on Windermere the other day and hired an electric boat , went out into the middle of the lake then got a nice fly over by a low flying Typhoon , then a few minutes later had another fly over

Not quite the howl of a Vulcan bomber but still an awesome powerful noise
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You would soon get tired of them if they buzz your village several times every day. The Typhoons from Lossie use our village as a turning point and nine times out of ten they light their burners up over us, what a racket. I reckon they are louder than the Tonka's they replaced. Hard to believe I am writing this yet was in the RAF and Lossie was my final posting, all I would like these days is some peace and quiet.

While I do love the sound of a Merlin engine or two or even four the greatest sound has to be from the Vulcan. That howl is unique and you have to have heard it to see what I mean. The first time I heard it was at Exeter air day in the early 70's. I was under 10 years old and dad and my uncle took me there. We were drooling over a Lanc that was parked up when this howling banshee came roaring over and scared the crap out of me. The second time was when I was at No 4 School of Technical training at RAF St Athan in South Glamorgan and the last Vulcan was doing a farewell flyby over several RAF stations. I can't remember if it was 1990 when I was on my basic tech training or 1992 when I was back for my fitters course but the instructors told us when she would be flying over so we could go outside the hangar to watch. What a magnificent machine!!
 
Seen the typhoons over Ullswater a couple of times, would love to see a Vulcan in flight, sat in the cockpit of the one at Carlisle air museum
 
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