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Dawlish air show yesterday. The typhoon stole the show. This video really doesn't convey just how bloody loud this thing is, but it had car alarms going off all over town 
I cannot imagine having this thing coming after you angry?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwvGeww-fY
....apologies in advance for shaky footage, I got there too late to bag a good spot and get the tripod up.
I cannot imagine having this thing coming after you angry?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwvGeww-fY
....apologies in advance for shaky footage, I got there too late to bag a good spot and get the tripod up.
We had two dog fighting over our town (in N Yorks) last year. They were at quite high altitude, but were going at it hammer and tongs. The towns folk are used to very low level fast jets (F15s Tornadoes, Harriers) with the wick turned up, and yet the Typhoons stopped the town dead - I kid you not. The whole town centre just stopped and looked at the spectacle as the noise was simply incredible.
rhinochopig said:
The whole town centre just stopped and looked at the spectacle as the noise was simply incredible.
They did their training run on Wednesday, and turned up completely unannounced. As you say, people literally abandoned their cars, and joined the rest of the watchers.philthy said:
rhinochopig said:
The whole town centre just stopped and looked at the spectacle as the noise was simply incredible.
They did their training run on Wednesday, and turned up completely unannounced. As you say, people literally abandoned their cars, and joined the rest of the watchers.rhinochopig said:
It makes a change for the Brits to have the loudest plane in the sky.
d by the Yanks....actually the Vulcan and the Lightning could shatter glass too come to that.One of the most charismatic sounding jets was the F104, the Germans used to like playing with the throttle on landing or taxying and it howled
Edited by Apache on Friday 15th August 11:10
Apache said:
the Tornado was reknowned for being an noisy antisocial bd by the Yanks....
Oh yes! I remember sitting on top of Brean Downs watching the planes fly into an airshow (can't remember which airshow that would have been now, Bristol / Weston area anyway).d by the Yanks....When the Tornado flew over the dog did a runner and the ground I was sitting on shook!... over 20 years ago but I still remember it being one of the loudest things I've ever heard!
rhinochopig said:
The F15 definitely sounds the louder of the two without re-heat. We get about 10 F15s a week over our house and probably 2 tornadoes, both of which will be very very low.
Over the last 6 months we've started to have more low flying fighters overhead - which I think is a great thing 
They used to fly over on a far more regular basis when I was a kid though.
Saw a Typhoon at Navy Days 2006 at Plymouth. Watched the show twice and the noise with the thundering crackle of the engines. The pilot threw it around like it was a car and was almost pulling off what looked like handbrake turns in the sky.
During one of the shows I was down below in the engine room and even over all the plant noise and the fans I could still hear the Typhoon doing its stuff above us.
One hell of an aircraft one of them was loud 2 of them must be deafening and I really wouldn't like to be on the wrong end of them either!!!
During one of the shows I was down below in the engine room and even over all the plant noise and the fans I could still hear the Typhoon doing its stuff above us.
One hell of an aircraft one of them was loud 2 of them must be deafening and I really wouldn't like to be on the wrong end of them either!!!
philthy said:
Dawlish air show yesterday. The typhoon stole the show. This video really doesn't convey just how bloody loud this thing is, but it had car alarms going off all over town
I cannot imagine having this thing coming after you angry?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwvGeww-fY
....apologies in advance for shaky footage, I got there too late to bag a good spot and get the tripod up.
My parents were sat in the Smugglers Inn beer garden watching the display and I was talking to them on the phone when it went past, my god was it loud!I cannot imagine having this thing coming after you angry?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwvGeww-fY
....apologies in advance for shaky footage, I got there too late to bag a good spot and get the tripod up.
Gutted I couldn't make it there this year, thoroughly enjoyed it last year in the sun, although by midnight was thoroughly pished and had to go home before I...
(I don't even remember the carnival parade... 
.........I think I was asleep by 8pm I went to the HMS Seahawk airshow this year. The weather was a bit naff, but they still tried to put on a show. Cloudbase was probably about 500ft at best.
The hilight of the show was a Tornado, appearing through the clouds on reheat. They had laid on some pyrotechnics in the shape of fuel barrels along the runway. As the Tornado went down the runway at about 250ft, they blew up the fuel barrels, and the burning cloud rose well above the height of the aeroplane.
Perhaps it was less than 250ft
All I know is that the Taliban can't know what's hit them!
The hilight of the show was a Tornado, appearing through the clouds on reheat. They had laid on some pyrotechnics in the shape of fuel barrels along the runway. As the Tornado went down the runway at about 250ft, they blew up the fuel barrels, and the burning cloud rose well above the height of the aeroplane.
Perhaps it was less than 250ft
All I know is that the Taliban can't know what's hit them!
Edited by dilbert on Saturday 16th August 15:31
A related video from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT4y39e-aRc
You can see that the red arrows are a man down, which was noticed at the time. Apparently, he had a bird strike as he left Exeter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT4y39e-aRc
You can see that the red arrows are a man down, which was noticed at the time. Apparently, he had a bird strike as he left Exeter?
Edited by philthy on Saturday 16th August 15:32
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