Hawker Hunter blue note

[steve j]

Just found this, I think it`s the best blue note I`ve heard so had to share it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIhTsA4vPj8

[FourWheelDrift]

Nice.

You know I'm more interested in seeing things like this than the Red Arrows - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detai...

[FourWheelDrift]

Ps. £275,000 for Miss Demeanour is hysterically cheap isn't it? - http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!hunter/ckzm

[ecsrobin]

FourWheelDrift said:

Ps. £275,000 for Miss Demeanour is hysterically cheap isn't it? - http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!hunter/ckzm

Very, especially as it's profitable. Anyone want to buy it on pistonheads so I can help out. It's been up for sale since sept/cot last year so I'm surprised no ones interested.

[mrloudly]

What do you reckon the running costs are (without display income) £100k a year?

[ecsrobin]

mrloudly said:

What do you reckon the running costs are (without display income) £100k a year?

Fuel will probably be one of the biggest factors also it all depends on how many hours you fly per year. For hangarage, insurance, scheduled maintenance your probably getting close to £30-40k chuck fuel on top plus landing fees you could easily spend the same again.

[jamieduff1981]

ecsrobin said:

mrloudly said:

What do you reckon the running costs are (without display income) £100k a year?

Fuel will probably be one of the biggest factors also it all depends on how many hours you fly per year. For hangarage, insurance, scheduled maintenance your probably getting close to £30-40k chuck fuel on top plus landing fees you could easily spend the same again.

I seem to recall insurance on big single engine piston warbird types could be around the £100k p.a. sort of mark. Scheduled maintenance on these will be decidely "intense" due to greater use of powered controls etc. I think you could easily spend a lot on this.

Jonathan Whaley uses his braking 'chute and repacks it himself, telling anyone who questions him that it's cheaper than replacement brakes...

Overhauling an Avon won't be cheap either.

[ecsrobin]

The Engine is on its last legs but a newly refurbed one would be fitted prior to collection so that cost is avoidable for a while. Insurance I don't think is that much. I think £15/20k should be about right.

[aeropilot]

jamieduff1981 said:

Overhauling an Avon won't be cheap either.

Indeed.

Especially as it's likely you're going to have to ship one overseas to have it overhauled, as I'm assuming that RR in the UK no longer overhaul 207 Avons....and I can't recall there being a RR authorised overhaul company in the UK.

HAL in India I believe are still RR authorised 207 overhaulers.

I wonder where the Swiss got there's done when they were still operating them?

[mrloudly]

I remember when my aircraft was hangared next to the late Paul Morgan's fighter collection at Sywell. "Hangar Chat" was around £1000/hr insurance on the Sea Fury!
Deep pockets required in that game!

[Simpo Two]

And another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCjM-vQOks

[JVaughan]

Took this at RNAS Yeovil last Saturday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLLHO1Z_vxs

[Lost soul]

steve j said:

Just found this, I think it`s the best blue note I`ve heard so had to share it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIhTsA4vPj8

I have seen that guy display at the Eastbourne Airbourne , he really puts on a great show

[FourWheelDrift]

I wonder if they sampled that for Star Wars. I'm sure it's the noise the speeder bikes make when they make s big turn through the trees during the chase on Endor.

[FourWheelDrift]

Waddington 2014 from the end of the runway (mad landings) but then some flying, then at from 1m55s a lovely Hunter blue note pass - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7lwgmY3S94

[EskimoArapaho]

FourWheelDrift said:

I wonder if they sampled that for Star Wars. I'm sure it's the noise the speeder bikes make when they make s big turn through the trees during the chase on Endor.

Long before, and in an animated kingdom far, far away, Gerry Anderson was using the blue note for jet sounds in Thunderbirds. As an easily impressed young sprat in the '70s, I was convinced - and still am - that all jets should sound this way.

(Just as all ships should do that 'whoop-whoop' alert sound thingummy when they enter a harbour. Life could be so much more colourful.)

Thinks: can we engineer a blue-note-inducing spoiler to add to a car...?

[JVaughan]

JVaughan said:

Took this at RNAS Yeovil last Saturday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLLHO1Z_vxs

Was chatting to the Pilot via Facebook and he was saying he was touching 600knts and pulling 7.5G into the vertical in this clip