On 08/06/2014 19:08, ARW wrote:
Today I was working at Finningley the home of this

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/

Just after 3pm it it went into the sky.

The first thing you notice is the noise. It makes more noise just
taxiing down the runway than a commercial jet makes on lift off!

It then flew towards the house (the floor vibrated) and blew the fumes
from it's exhaust into the house as it made it's turn. It smelt like a
an old petrol engine with a manual choke that was too far out.

Awesome - but totally OT.



I used to spend some time at RAF St.Athan ... where they used to service
The Harrier.
After service they would do full power engine test, then transition from
Hover to full power fwd vector ............... amazing to see a Jet
hover and the power from the Harrier Rolls Royce Pegasus engine was
incredible ...
23,800 lbf ... bet that sucked through a bit of juice on full tat.

We have have a bi-annual air show in the bay, I take my boat out .. and
sit back and watch the Battle of Britain memorial flight directly
overhead at extreme Low-Level .... those 4 Merlin engines making
amazing drone.
Escorted by a Hurricane & Spitfire .... great spectacle.


Last year display include a full demo of the Eurofighter "The Typhoon"
.... when that flew at Low level and then put in a full 90 degree
vertical climb with afterburners on .... the sound was like no plane I
have ever heard before .... must be such a buz to fly it.
However no real market out there .. even countries that had initially
wanted high numbers have cancelled orders.

Britain announcing it has insufficient spares to keep its fleet in the
air, and will have to canabalize craft until at least 2015 can't be
helping sales.


Local paper in Wales carried this "cockpit view" test flight ........
worth the watch if you haven't seen it.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...filmed-6551556

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