Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Loud? SR-71 doing touch and goes. I was driving near McClellend AFB just east of Sacramento a few decades ago, convertible, at 70, on US 50, when the wind noise was over-ridden by the roar of a jet. I looked up and here was this jet-black SR-71 during base to shoot a touch and go. It was loud. It got a LOT louder as it turned final and made its approach then, before actually touching down, throttled up and accelerated around the pattern again before heading north to Beale AFB, its home. God, I love those airplanes. That's the number 2 moment in my "aviation life". The number 1 moment is watching the Shuttle lift off from Orlando. I couldn't hear it but I could watch all the way through booster separation and until she vanished far down-range, her three main engines a trio of bright lights that disappeared into the cirrus clouds some long way out over the Atlantic. Adam On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:33 AM, W. R. Smith <wrs111445 at yahoo.com> wrote: > If you wanna hear a jet that will deafen you,?experience a U2 spy plane. I > heard one two years ago here in Korea and it was deafening even at some > altitude during a USAF?airshow. I guess it's a non-issue at the altitudes > it usually flies at. It has some powerful engines. > > --- On Fri, 11/13/09, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote: > > > From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> > Subject: Re: [Leica] [IMG] AIRCRAFT - Last flying Vulcan XH558 > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 7:33 AM > > > It could well be, but I think most airfields looked the same in the 60s, I > can't recognise anything distinctive in the background. > > It flew past at about that height and then more or less stood on its tail, > gave full power and disappeared in seconds. > > Nobody seemed to care in those days that the onlookers got some of the hot > blast from its engines - enough to blow people's hats off. > > Cheers > Douglas > > Ric Carter wrote: >> looking at this photo made me wonder if it was the very flyover doug saw >> >> ri >> >> On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote: >> >>> Yes, >>> >>> The link from Ric meant I was an hour or so later in bed :-) A truly >>> elegant aircraft, and enormous when you get close to it. >>> >>> Thank Ric (and Peter for getting the ball rolling). >>> >>> Cheers >>> Douglas >>> >>> Peter Dzwig wrote: >>>> I thoroughly recommend this lot to anyone interested. There are a lot >>>> of early >>>> shots. Many are of XH558 since and during its restoration. Some of them >>>> give a >>>> feeling for the sheer scale of the aircraft. >>>> >>>> Peter >>>> >>>> Ric Carter wrote: >>>> >>>>> <http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/photos/vulcan/avro-vulcan-2328.aspx> >>>>> >>>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >