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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    The English Electric Canberra was a great plane. Fast for its time and very agile. Noisy bugger though.

    Here's a nice clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER4tfH2Szoc
    Very nice too. I remember as a kid having a double treat if we had a day out to Blackpool (or that NW coast) as my Dad always drove from W Yorkshire towards Preston and went past the EE factory (which I think) was at Wharton. There always seemed to be Lightenings & Canberras lined up parallel to the road near the hangers.
    Come to think of it, I preferred seeing them to the rest of the day at the coast !

    In the mid 70s I was in the ATC and spent a summer camp at RAF Wyton, so it was Canberras all week. Especially remember the weird looking ones flown by the ECM Squadron/development team.

    What great times to have lived.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oddball View Post
    The Mosquito was a real beauty . I very often used to see the one from RAF Hawarden in North Wales come to Whixall Moss by us ,and spent 15 mins or so doing acrobatics . She was the one that crashed a few yrs later (cant remember her serial)
    Truthfully ,it was almost as good as sex , watching her roll and dive , and a thing I will never forget !
    I saw that Mosquito at the North Weald 'Fighter Meet' over twenty years ago. Sounded like a cross between a Lancaster and Spitfire (naturally enough ). Lovely plane!


    I also saw the Grumman Tiger Cat there and it was even more spectacular for a twin prop piston job. Amazingly powerful and acrobatic. Later generation of plane though.

    One here. Incredible plane. And the speed and sound................ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1uTPNsA9mg
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vinyl turner View Post
    Very nice too. I remember as a kid having a double treat if we had a day out to Blackpool (or that NW coast) as my Dad always drove from W Yorkshire towards Preston and went past the EE factory (which I think) was at Wharton. There always seemed to be Lightenings & Canberras lined up parallel to the road near the hangers.
    Come to think of it, I preferred seeing them to the rest of the day at the coast !

    In the mid 70s I was in the ATC and spent a summer camp at RAF Wyton, so it was Canberras all week. Especially remember the weird looking ones flown by the ECM Squadron/development team.

    What great times to have lived.
    There are Lightning and Canberra gate guardians at Warton and Samlesbury, so you can still see them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    I saw that Mosquito at the North Weald 'Fighter Meet' over twenty years ago. Sounded like a cross between a Lancaster and Spitfire (naturally enough ). Lovely plane!


    I also saw the Grumman Tiger Cat there and it was even more spectacular for a twin prop piston job. Amazingly powerful and acrobatic. Later generation of plane though.

    One here. Incredible plane. And the speed and sound................ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1uTPNsA9mg
    The tiger cat was nearly the skyrocket until it blew up

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    The tiger cat was nearly the skyrocket until it blew up
    The Skyrocket was a similar but older concept. The Tigercat has nearly twice the power.
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    The nose & cockpit of the Skyrocket (never heard of this one before) is quite reminiscent of the Bristol Beaufighter.
    It doesn't look very aero-dynamic, but an interesting design.

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    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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    Ridiculous! It will crash. Torsional effects from the mass of the two fuselages will tear the central wing apart. It's the only thing holding them together.

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    must be April dont fancy trying it
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    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

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    Hawker Sea Fury display. Beautiful prop fighter. Great power & speed!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kJh47BMTRo
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