I thought I'd posted this -

[tim]

- or did it get censored?

October Aeroplane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxJ0wcJ5hkc

[tim]

[Jayb]

Tim, I must have blinked as I'm sure I just read a reply from you explaining your post, thank you (I was a little puzzled).

The picture is fantastic, was it taken during your recent flight? I'm guessing the sounds in the video are you above, what an experience for all of you  :)

[tim]

Yes - I'm lost - grawrc changed it all!

Can't get it back together.

= Tim

[ceres]

1, That link has not been posted previously that I can find by searching (including in moderated posts) and therefore has not been censored.  Unless I missed the hidden porn shots  ;), the link is of garden, sky, aeroplane noise so there's nothing that would cause it to be censored. 

2. There are no recent posts from you, Tim, in moderation therefore no-one changed anything and none of us mods can delete anything.

[lincsyokel2]

i actually made post #2 in this thread, which vanished about an hour later.....................

[tim]

I quote?

"A topic you are watching has been split into two or more topics by grawrc"

= Tim.

[ceres]

Tim, that message does NOT refer to any of your posts.

[petengade]

I rembered Tim posting the one below in July.

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=110810

[tim]

Ah yes, thanks  - sorry - thought I'd been here before but couldn't locate it.

Yes, Jaybe - I excused the lack of a/c due to Daughter using my wide angle lens on a small digi-cam. The sound was the important thing.

The only difference between the Key Forum post & now is that this one is ME - - I wasn't at liberty to post it before the new issue of Aeroplane.

Thanks, Ceres, for your advice..

[lincsyokel2]

Im still non the wiser what it was all about.

was there something significant aboiut he engine noise?

[tim]

I reckon Pete's post sums it up??

Oh, & dreaming again  -  I DID post that last photo in the Key forum.

The first air to air was of Geoffrey Wellum - taken by Peter Arnold. Mine was by Richard Paver, who has 6 pages of the event in the Aeroplane.

= Tim

[pumkinlover]

We were off on a bike ride earlier in the year and overlooking Chesterfield when a Spitfire flew over, the noise is something special. We were chuffed to bits to get such a good view.
It must have been a fantastic day for you Tim :) Thanks for sharing

[lincsyokel2]

Ah i see, its a Spitfire.

We get the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight as well as the Red Arrows zooming about above my allotment.

When they had Vulcans at Waddington my childhood home was on the flight path turn point, they would thunder over, afterburners flat out and 15 degrees of flaps, desparately trying to slow down enough to land whilst not actually falling out the sky. The noise was indescribable, it was impossible to talk to anyone for a good two minutes while they went over.

Then a bit later, we had Tornados, they were even noisier, but it didnt last as long cos they were quicker. They would take off, point the nose up and give it full thrust. Once or twice we even had a KC135 supertanker over, you wonder how they stayed in the air they were going so slowly.

You can in fact sit at the end of the runway, next to the landing lights, HERE, and watch the planes land.  A vast difference from the hieght of the cold war - if you had stopped there to watch in 1965, you wouldnt have been there five minutes  before  a couple of landrovers full of redcaps and dogs would have screeched up, wanting to know what you were up to.  

Theres even  a secret place you can get up close, not even the airnerds know about it, its called Crash Exit Five, its a farm track with at the end a pair of gates in the perimeter fence, which are on shear bolts, so the fire engines can crash through in an emergency without bolloxing about unlocking the gates, its HERE at the bottom of this lane, this is as close as Google maps gets, but if you zoom out to the aerial view you'll see what i mean.

I was watching the AWACS doing circuits and bumps the other day, there was a crosswind and it was practically coming in sideways. Sometimes there are also some intersting, mysterious planes - ive seen an entirely unmarked Boeing 727 parked up, as well as Black helicopters and unmarked fighters.

[tim]

10/10 for a/c recognition!! But you've had a fair bit of practice?

Noise? - the VC10s' met flight climbing from Brize can be heard minutes after overhead.

By the way -  my co-driver that day was Al Pinner - ex-CO BBMF but, more importantly, as said elsewhere, ex-No1 Sqn!