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Saturday lunchtime I was in the car to take my wife to Hungerford to look at her antiques selling business. It was very hot and we had the windows wide open.
Waiting at a roundabout in central Henley, we heard a mammoth deep throbbing of engines in the sky.
“That isn’t a Cessna!”, I thought, and looked out the window to see a Lancaster bomber in formation with a Spitfire and a Hurricane fighter go right overhead about 1,000 feet up. A bloody awesome sight! We saw them twice more in the distance as we drove towards Reading.
It was the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight doing displays over Woodcote and Caversham.
I used to go to a lot of airshows as a kid when my dad was stationed in the UK. Twas most excellent. The medieval fairs were also way better than any I've seen in the US (not that I run across them much here XD).
I love seeing the old warbirds flying over, there was a B-17 that flew into Boing field a while back that I got to watch land, it was pretty awesome! You can definitely hear them when thy are coming and I cant think of a more awesome sound than a P-51 Mustang coming in for a fast fly by at an air show.
On the note of Ren fairs, the only one I have been to that was good is the one in North Houston, but they have built pretty much an entire small town for it, including a horse track with jousting etc.. The ones in the PNW are of the tent variety...
Yeah we get the Memorial flight over our garden most years as the lead-in route for the Southend Airshow and anything in central London (Jubilees/trooping the colour etc) seem to go across my village. I think they circle in Essex before joining the fast jets over Thames. They sometimes have a Operation overlord painted C47 which is a treat.
There used to be a Zero (or something similar) most weekends as I think one of the small airfields near here had one.
We also get sporadic Apaches and Chinooks heading up toward Colchester (Air Assault Bgde. I assume).
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A Lancaster bomber did a fly by over the town of Bridgend near where I live yesterday, and a flight of Red Arrows passed over my house this morning.
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We used to have something fun like that here in Western Michigan. There is a National Guard base just to the south that used to be the home for a squadron of A-10's. For 11 years I used to work on a farm out by a large lake, and nearly twice a week at the same time in the late morning we would get a fly-by of at least a pair of them at about 500 feet up- close enough to see the silhouette of the pilot's heads in the canopy.
They would circle two or three times, during which you had to shout to talk. It was like a continuous thunder rumble.
Friggin' cool, and WWII prop planes sound even cooler.
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Kilkrazy wrote: Saturday lunchtime I was in the car to take my wife to Hungerford to look at her antiques selling business. It was very hot and we had the windows wide open.
Waiting at a roundabout in central Henley, we heard a mammoth deep throbbing of engines in the sky.
“That isn’t a Cessna!”, I thought, and looked out the window to see a Lancaster bomber in formation with a Spitfire and a Hurricane fighter go right overhead about 1,000 feet up. A bloody awesome sight! We saw them twice more in the distance as we drove towards Reading.
It was the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight doing displays over Woodcote and Caversham.
They've been flying ours quite a bit as of late, and even though I must have seen it about a thousand or so times by now, I can't help but stop and stare every single time it does a fly-by! It truly is a beautiful plane, and the sound is amazing! (and it's just one of them!)
I can still remember the field trip up to the Warplane Heritage Museum back in grade 8 - we got to meet a number of the vets who'd flown Lancasters in Europe and even got to take a peek inside the plane!
It honestly looks a lot better from the outside is all I can say.
I agree....WWII aircrafts are quite stunning to look at in real life but we would never see them in their true role as combat fighters or bombers.
but then todays combat aircraft are quite....stunning when witness first hand like these...I actually called in two of these........cry Matty...just cry with jealously.
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The closest I have gotten to seeing WWII planes in the wild was during an air show where they did a simulated bomb run with B-17 Flying Fortress. It's something to see (and feel).
You get used to seeing things in the movies, it's almost surreal in real life.
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There is an old DC9 somewhere here nearby which has been left to rust for a couple of decacdes. Now with the loving care of some enthousiasts, they are slowly restauring it so people can know the role they played in history, which of course includes de airdrops in D-1.
Jihadin wrote: but then todays combat aircraft are quite....stunning when witness first hand like these...I actually called in two of these........cry Matty...just cry with jealously.
Good ol' Hog. I believe the only way you could improve it would be to have a naval aviator fly it.
On topic, I've always had a soft spot for the WWII planes, to be sure. My grandfather flew F4Us, which have to be my favorite. For that matter, my dad flew F-14s. Always wanted a crack at flying both. Alas, I am of the strike fighter era. (Not that I'm complaining; the Super Bug's plenty fun to fly.) Still, radial engines have a charm all their own.
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Kilkrazy wrote: Saturday lunchtime I was in the car to take my wife to Hungerford to look at her antiques selling business. It was very hot and we had the windows wide open.
Waiting at a roundabout in central Henley, we heard a mammoth deep throbbing of engines in the sky.
“That isn’t a Cessna!”, I thought, and looked out the window to see a Lancaster bomber in formation with a Spitfire and a Hurricane fighter go right overhead about 1,000 feet up. A bloody awesome sight! We saw them twice more in the distance as we drove towards Reading.
It was the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight doing displays over Woodcote and Caversham.
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Kilkrazy wrote: Saturday lunchtime I was in the car to take my wife to Hungerford to look at her antiques selling business. It was very hot and we had the windows wide open.
Waiting at a roundabout in central Henley, we heard a mammoth deep throbbing of engines in the sky.
“That isn’t a Cessna!”, I thought, and looked out the window to see a Lancaster bomber in formation with a Spitfire and a Hurricane fighter go right overhead about 1,000 feet up. A bloody awesome sight! We saw them twice more in the distance as we drove towards Reading.
It was the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight doing displays over Woodcote and Caversham.
There is no sound in the world like the sound of a supercharged Merlin engine.
Oh agreed. I was in the basement of a tower block when I heard the sound, it goes straight to the soul, the tower block was used as a nav point so the Memorial flight was heading straight towards it. I instantly knew what it was ran out and was greeted by the City of Lincoln on a low pass directly overhead. Awesome, only wish I was on the roof.
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I used to live a mile from a naval air station, which was also used by other services. Things got especially fun around the time of their annual air show. I remember one year getting out of my car and seeing a B-2 fly overhead.
The Lone Star Flight Museum on Galveston island has a number of vintage air craft, flight ready. They bring them up to the annual air show at Elington Field in October. During the year, you can pay for rides in some of them, like the B-17:
I was at the beach the other day and the B-17 and 2 other vintage crafts flew overhead in formation. I guess they were practicing for the air show. Impressive air craft when you're boozing it up on the 4th at the beach.
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My own awesome experience was my father, an airline pilot at the time, doing a "go around" just over home during a training flight with the excuse that an incoming plane had received priority status on the approach.
A 747 at full power at barely 1000 feet and climbing over the garden was the most impacting thing I ever felt.
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I actually forgot all about this. Back in '93 in the 82nd we had what was called a Division SGT. Major Jump. Some how some way the US Army came up with the funds to finance a C47 for fun jumps on all day Sat. Catch was you had to have max your PT score to participate. I was a bit lazy back in those days....still though...to jump out a C47 while in flight....
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Possibly because there were so many more B-17s? (just a guess here)
Personally, I have found that you can distill the "schools of engineering thought" of the various combatant nations of WW2 in their aircraft:
Britain: Beauty in flight. C'Mon admit that even the Lancaster has a certain beauty to it. and the Spitfire is just omg gorgeous to look at.
Germany: engineering marvels... basically, lets see how much we can engineer this, the more complicated the better!
USSR: Does it have more than three buttons? Can a man use it with no training? If No, the make it more simple!
USA: Guns? Check. Does it fly? Check. Can it be easily repaired? Check. OK, all systems go!
Ensis Ferrae wrote: Possibly because there were so many more B-17s? (just a guess here)
Personally, I have found that you can distill the "schools of engineering thought" of the various combatant nations of WW2 in their aircraft:
Britain: Beauty in flight. C'Mon admit that even the Lancaster has a certain beauty to it. and the Spitfire is just omg gorgeous to look at.
Germany: engineering marvels... basically, lets see how much we can engineer this, the more complicated the better!
USSR: Does it have more than three buttons? Can a man use it with no training? If No, the make it more simple!
USA: Guns? Check. Does it fly? Check. Can it be easily repaired? Check. OK, all systems go!
awesome post.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Nice post Ensis.....how true that sounds its scary
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Ensis Ferrae wrote: Possibly because there were so many more B-17s? (just a guess here)
Personally, I have found that you can distill the "schools of engineering thought" of the various combatant nations of WW2 in their aircraft:
Britain: Beauty in flight. C'Mon admit that even the Lancaster has a certain beauty to it. and the Spitfire is just omg gorgeous to look at.
Germany: engineering marvels... basically, lets see how much we can engineer this, the more complicated the better!
USSR: Does it have more than three buttons? Can a man use it with no training? If No, the make it more simple!
USA: Guns? Check. Does it fly? Check. Can it be easily repaired? Check. OK, all systems go!
Aren't they just the special National rules from Flames of War?
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I went to an outdoors 'last night of the proms' type concert. It was Rolls Royce's 100 yr anniversary or something like that. They played music like dambusters and had spitfires flying overhead. That was a very pleasant evening.
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Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
Don't drown the enemy in legislation, drown them in explosives.
It was - it was at a place called darley abbey in derby. They have an open air classical/proms type concert there every year in august. It was good combined with spitfires.
Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
Don't drown the enemy in legislation, drown them in explosives.
Ah hh Kilkrazy your so lucky...
I've been wanting to see something like that for ages...
But Australia so yeah..
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CloudRider wrote: Ah hh Kilkrazy your so lucky...
I've been wanting to see something like that for ages...
But Australia so yeah..
Hey, at least you guys get Rhinos.
And for the rest of you going weak in the knees over the Spitfire: slow your roll. It ain't no P-51D, possibly the best-looking aircraft ever, and the very last time the Air Force exclusively had a better-looking plane than anything a naval aviator flew.
