Plane just shook my house

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Heard a rumbling noise over the top of iTunes turned up loud, so turned it off and stuck my head out of the window - there was a growl like a fighter jet on afterburner, but it felt about 100ft above the house - I could feel the vibration through the floor.

It stayed loud for about a minute and then slowly faded to the West. I'm guessing it just took off from Manston airport in Kent (a few miles to my East) but it's the wierdest thing I ever heard.

Want to know what it was now!

Scuzi - I know you're ATC, anyway to find out or is this military (therefore classified?).
 
Had that before at about 4am when I lived in a 3 storey house, and the third story was pretty much a loft - but used as bedrooms.

Scared the living daylights out of me. :eek:
 
Chances are that it was an old aircraft, something like a VC10 or some old Ilyushin contraption. When heavily loaded they almost rely on the curvature of the earth to climb and hence cannot make noise abatement restrictions. Their old engines can shake the earth too :eek:

I doubt it was military as they will have closed up shop for the day. You can contact ATC at Manston if you wish to make a noise complaint, they may tell you what it was although they're not obliged to.

EDIT: Did this just happen or was it earlier today?
 
Probably headed to the Biggin Hill air fair which is this weekend. One day soon the old Vulcan will be blasting off your roof tiles again too :)
 
Jonny69 said:
Probably headed to the Biggin Hill air fair which is this weekend. One day soon the old Vulcan will be blasting off your roof tiles again too :)
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Do you know if there is a timescale for the Vulcan to fly again? Do you think it will be at this years Air Tattoo at Fairford??
 
Scuzi said:
EDIT: Did this just happen or was it earlier today?
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Happened a couple of mins before my OP. I'm not bothered by the noise, I like planes and that.

We were driving back from Margate on Monday and the red arrows buzzed over the motorway at a 1000ft or so, must have just taken off from Manston.

Whatever it was it had some serious thrust going, it sounded like the sky was being torn open.

EDIT - Manston does mention Red Arrows actually...LINK
 
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miracleboy said:
Heard a rumbling noise over the top of iTunes turned up loud, so turned it off and stuck my head out of the window - there was a growl like a fighter jet on afterburner, but it felt about 100ft above the house - I could feel the vibration through the floor.

It stayed loud for about a minute and then slowly faded to the West. I'm guessing it just took off from Manston airport in Kent (a few miles to my East) but it's the wierdest thing I ever heard.

Want to know what it was now!

Scuzi - I know you're ATC, anyway to find out or is this military (therefore classified?).
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Interesting. A couple of year ago i posted on here about something that flew over my house that sounded 5x louder than an aeroplane and about 5x faster aswell. I saw something for a second but it shot past. I ran downstairs at the time and asked my housemate and he said he heard it too, he also said i went white.

maybe the same thing?

anyone remember the thread/me posting?
 
I'm sure as people have mentioned it was a very heavy multi engined jet (the noise stayed too close for too long for it to be a fast mover). We have a lot of training at Manston (a Hong Kong 747 does takeoff/landing training weekly), could have been something refueling.

Manston has one of the longest runways in the world and is an emergency landing site for the shuttle. (useless fact of the day)
 
Give Scuzi your postcode, and I reckon he'll be able to find out which plane it was travelling in your area at that time. :cool:
 
Scuzi said:
Chances are that it was an old aircraft, something like a VC10 or some old Ilyushin contraption. When heavily loaded they almost rely on the curvature of the earth to climb and hence cannot make noise abatement restrictions. Their old engines can shake the earth too :eek:
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Isn't that what they say about the a340 - 200/300?

Seeing climbing over London they don't look that much lower than your 747/777s
 
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Give Scuzi your postcode, and I reckon he'll be able to find out which plane it was travelling in your area at that time. :cool:
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What do you think I am? :eek:
I don't deal with Manston traffic, I don't know a lot about their movements.


inferno said:
Isn't that what they say about the a340 - 200/300?

Seeing climbing over London they don't look that much lower than your 747/777s
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Aye, the A342 / A343 are shockingly bad at going up. They make my life a misery. The 747-4 and 772/773 are MUCH better climbers, even when fully loaded.
 
Scuzi said:
What do you think I am? :eek:
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Scuzi said:
I don't deal with Manston traffic, I don't know a lot about their movements.
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I had the impression you had access to this data. I seem to recall a while back, you asking a friend about a plane travelling across somewhere - maybe I'm just inhaling too much fresh air in one go. :p
 
it was probably due to biggin hill air fair i was up there on sat and they had a boeing 747 do a few flybys as part of the programme sadly no harrier jump jets apparently there being de commisioned from the airforce.
 
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