SPITFIRE !!!

[gbb]

ACHTUNG!!!

Not sure if the Lancaster just flew over several hours later...they had the same engines, but always sound different. Couldnt see where he was, eyes skyward, expectation...no, he's gone.

Going to make it my duty to see an airshow this summer. Ive never been to one, amazing really cos i love aircraft.

 

[Red Light]

I got tired of seeing TV programmes. I don't miss them much.

Best flying military hardware: Vulcan on afterburners IMO. Like all the rock bands in all the world compressed into one big noise.

Always looked very sinister to me. My favourite was Concorde - never tired of watching it fly over and had the privilege of flying it a few times. Pure vandalism when BA refused to sell them to Virgin and instead made sure they could never fly again.

 

[screenman]

I only live 10 miles from where the Battle of Britain squadron are based, also we have the Tornado and the Red arrows all within the same distance.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I never get tired of seeing the Spitfire, and the Lancaster Bomber

I suppose that's a turd to the left of the Lanc is it??

The more people wax lyrical about the Lanc and Spit, the less interested I become, really, I don't care about them and what is worse is the way people go on about it is as if the S*itfire single handedly won the war and everyone else was left to just sit there and twiddle their thumbs....... except for the time they made a bouncing bomb of course!

The Hurricane and the rest did nothing at all......

I got tired of seeing TV programmes. I don't miss them much.

Exactly! And I suppose that if the BBC wrote the history books then, according to their PROPOGANDA, a single Spitfire would have faced down the might of the entire Luftwaffe in 1940 whilst all the Hurricane pilots and the rest just sat about and watched.

What makes it even sadder is that people continue to fall for it.

Best flying military hardware: Vulcan on afterburners IMO. Like all the rock bands in all the world compressed into one big noise.

Nice, but I would LOVE to see a Victor flying again (fat chance of that, I know).

 

[gbb]

I got tired of seeing TV programmes. I don't miss them much.

Best flying military hardware: Vulcan on afterburners IMO. Like all the rock bands in all the world compressed into one big noise.

My dad was an airframe fitter on Vulcans, i remember we lived about 5 to 8 miles from RAF Scampton in the late 60s i should think, when they used to run the engines up on test, or takeoff, the window panes used to rattle. A deep deep threatening roar, gawld knows what it sounded like close up.

Always looked very sinister to me. My favourite was Concorde - never tired of watching it fly over and had the privilege of flying it a few times. Pure vandalism when BA refused to sell them to Virgin and instead made sure they could never fly again.

Looking sinister ? that reminds me of a story dad told me....
They were on night duty, a Vulcan or Victor was due in for a quick turn around, they got word it was arriving imminently and they sent a young new guy from the hanger to 'shepherd' it in. Someone detected something was not right, they went out to the airfield to find the young new guy huddled in a heap on the deck in front of this massive aircraft nose, lights blazing, engines still running, with someone in the cockpit gesticulating furiously and angrily ....dad said, as he looked up, he realised what had happened, The nose, engine intakes, blazing lights made it look like a demonic apparition appearing out of the darkness....it'd scared the life out of the poor guy.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Looking sinister ? that reminds me of a story dad told me....
They were on night duty, a Vulcan or Victor was due in for a quick turn around, they got word it was arriving imminently and they sent a young new guy from the hanger to 'shepherd' it in. Someone detected something was not right, they went out to the airfield to find the young new guy huddled in a heap on the deck in front of this massive aircraft nose, lights blazing, engines still running, with someone in the cockpit gesticulating furiously and angrily ....dad said, as he looked up, he realised what had happened, The nose, engine intakes, blazing lights made it look like a demonic apparition appearing out of the darkness....it'd scared the life out of the poor guy.

I'd have LOVED IT!!

 

[black'n'yellow]

Best flying military hardware: Vulcan on afterburners IMO.

that would have been a very rare sight indeed - because the Vulcan didn't have afterburners..

 

[cyberknight]

I got tired of seeing TV programmes. I don't miss them much.

Best flying military hardware: Vulcan on afterburners IMO. Like all the rock bands in all the world compressed into one big noise.

I was lucky enough to be on a club run and the vlucan`s final flight last month passed over us twice as we headed through Alrewas by the memorial.
Gotta agree with the OP that the spit`s engine noise is a classic , even down to the sound of it cutting out when it was doing moves that caused negative g the carberetter to be starved of fuel in mk 1 s, fixed later on with a floating carb .

 

[black'n'yellow]

Gotta agree with the OP that the spit`s engine noise is a classic , even down to the sound of it cutting out when it was doing moves that caused negative g the carberetter to be starved of fuel in mk 1 s, fixed later on with a floating carb .

The Spit already had a float carb - the long term fix was to use a pressurised carb, but the interim fix was to use the 'Shilling' mod....

 

[cyberknight]

The Spit already had a float carb - the long term fix was to use a pressurised carb, but the interim fix was to use the 'Shilling' mod....

Fair enough i only went by what i found via google that said the mk 1 had a stabdard carb and the mk 2 had a flaoting carb, if the people who sioad it were wrong i blame them .. anyhoo its still a memorable sound.

 

[subaqua]

I suppose that's a turd to the left of the Lanc is it??

The more people wax lyrical about the Lanc and Spit, the less interested I become, really, I don't care about them and what is worse is the way people go on about it is as if the S*itfire single handedly won the war and everyone else was left to just sit there and twiddle their thumbs....... except for the time they made a bouncing bomb of course!

The Hurricane and the rest did nothing at all......




Exactly! And I suppose that if the BBC wrote the history books then, according to their PROPOGANDA, a single Spitfire would have faced down the might of the entire Luftwaffe in 1940 whilst all the Hurricane pilots and the rest just sat about and watched.

What makes it even sadder is that people continue to fall for it.



Nice, but I would LOVE to see a Victor flying again (fat chance of that, I know).

glad its not just me . the Hurricane was a far better plane in the air according to those that flew both. spitfire was more rounded and aerodynamic but handled like a dog , have sat in both at airshows and the hurricane felt better

 

[black'n'yellow]

glad its not just me . the Hurricane was a far better plane in the air according to those that flew both. spitfire was more rounded and aerodynamic but handled like a dog , have sat in both at airshows and the hurricane felt better

Not sure where you got that from, but it's possible you are getting the two planes mixed up. The Spit was better than the Hurricane in the air in almost every respect. It could fly faster, climb faster, dive faster and had better visibility from the cockpit - the kinds of things that most combat pilots tend to go for. The Hurricane also caught fire too easily due to its construction - again, something not universally popular with pilots of the time.

It was a good gun platform though, and could be turned around on the ground in about half the time of the Spitfire. As for the Spit handling like a 'dog' - that's just bizarre - who told you that?

 

[Arch]

Hurricanes made more kills, didn't they? Just shows how a relatively tiny difference in shape (to my untrained ear, they sound very similar), and a smidgeon more glamour to the name, makes a vast cultural difference.

Especially given that I bet a lot of people wouldn't actually be able to tell them apart on sight.

Vulcans are good. But I raise you the English Electric Lightning.

 

[black'n'yellow]

Vulcans are good. But I raise you the English Electric Lightning.

if you're comparing aircraft noises, then I'll raise you the Antonov 22 - extraordinary sound...

 

[Arch]

I had to google that, and yes, it's distinctive!


But it's not just a noise thing: a Lightning can do this, and keep doing it more or less until the atmosphere runs out....