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Offline davidpt40

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« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2003, 12:52:46 PM »
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Since I work about 250 yards from the runway I kinda wish they could put mufflers on the 16's.  The mil power takeoffs are bad but the full burner ones are real nasty. They are limited to only 10% of activity for burner activities. Car alarms ALL over the airport start going off when the 16's are taking off.


I work at the airport too.  The parking lot is directly under the flight path.  When the UPS 747s are taking off they are so loud that you can't even hear the person next to you, even if they are yelling.

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« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2003, 01:27:08 PM »
bunch of private type planes...but 1 of the flight club members is loadmaster on b17g "sentimental journey" and flight engineer in a heinkel he111...

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« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2003, 01:47:13 PM »
A Goon! or 2...
Well i think so anyways... any easy way to tell a dc3 from a dc4?

One is converted to turbo prop too.

Also an An2?  i think thats it... the huge russian bipe..


An AT-6 as well, a few kits.


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« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2003, 08:58:50 PM »
FANG (Florida Air National Guard) is about 50 mins from me. they have over 6 F-15's ( i see/ hear them fly over alot...pretty cool) and i think, one C-130. theres a naval base around here too, mayport, which has some anti sub planes. i forget what they are called...p-3 orions i think.

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« Reply #19 on: September 08, 2003, 01:58:42 AM »
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Originally posted by Berra85
A couple of planes which i dont really care about, and then theres the Avro Vulcan siiting at the back:D
Berra - do you live near Southend? That's where the last Vulcan was that I knew about. I went to the 1990 50th Anniversary of Battle of Britain at Boscombe Down. The Vulcan was there. It was the LOUDEST aircraft I saw all day!  A little before that, I was flying my motor glider from Exeter to Enstone. I passed north of Portland Bill and had to take avoiding action on a Vulcan. He had climbed higher than his 2000' clearance. :eek:

Nearest airport to me is White Waltham, which has the longest grass runway in Europe. Nearest "big" airport is LHR - London Heathrow, the world's busiest airport. Too many planes to list, but given that they fly right over my village, I like the quiet ones! But I shall miss this one, which makes my windows rattle twice a day sometimes, and jingles my glassware. But it is to be retired next month.


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« Reply #20 on: September 08, 2003, 04:28:29 AM »
i live near the old Handley-Page factory.  Used to go over there and play when we were kids, it is turned into a film studio now - and we had fun jumping the fence and sitting on the scud launcher there when they were filming goldeneye.

Must have been quite a sight in the 40's when they were rolling halifax's out of there.

There is also an old BAe factory near here, i think they built the BAe 146 and Hawk there. When it was DeHavilland they built the Mosquito, Hornet, and Comet (+many more) there.

The DeHavilland Mosquito was designed at Salisbury Hall (about 5 mins from here, there is a small museum there now)
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« Reply #21 on: September 08, 2003, 04:51:00 AM »
The Museum of Flight in Seattle

Overall, the Museum's collection includes 131 air- and spacecraft and over 19,000 other artifacts, including 856 instruments, 1,103 models, 1,967 articles of apparel and textiles, 134 engines, 30 oral histories, and the balance in radios, armament, accessories, tools, and ephemera. The Museum also maintains an important archival collection with 100,000 photographs; 100,000 negatives; 20,000 books; 66,200 periodicals and industry publications; 10,000 lantern slides; 2,000 films, videos, and audio-tapes;145 feet of manuscripts; and numerous plans, vellums, albums, and graphics relating to the history and technology of flight in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. One of our largest artifacts is the Red Barn, the National Register site which was the headquarters of the original Boeing Airplane Company and the oldest aircraft factory in North America.

That should about cover it :p
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« Reply #22 on: September 08, 2003, 05:41:49 AM »
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i live near the old Handley-Page factory.  
I think you said you lived near St. Albans. Would that HP/BAe factory be the one at Hatfield?

I used to work for BAe at Weybridge. They had excess capacity and had to lose a factory site. They chose Weybridge because the land value had tripled when the M25 was completed - Weybridge is just inside.  I've been back since (an American car rally c1991) and didn't recognize the place. But I assume the old Vickers workshops were still there. They are listed buildings dating from c1915.

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« Reply #23 on: September 08, 2003, 05:57:16 AM »
No, the BAe plant at hatfield was DeHavilland's i think in ww2 and before.

The Handley-Page factory is at Frogmore, kinda inbetween St. Albans and Radlett. It is not visible from the road so unless you know the area well then you probably wouldnt notice it.  

I think they only moved from there when they were building the Victor V-bomber.  Apparently the runway was too short.

They used to fly airships from there in the 80's i think, but i was a little young so cant remember exactly when.
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« Reply #24 on: September 08, 2003, 09:35:38 AM »
Willow Grove Naval Air Station (JRB)

Navy : P-3C

Air Force: C-130H, OA-10

Marines - H-53, AH-1

Army: UH-1

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Interesting birds
« Reply #25 on: September 08, 2003, 10:50:30 AM »
Falcon Field, Mesa AZ (just Sof Phoenix):

B17
P51D
P47
Spit5
ME109G
LA5
P38
P40
N1K

A boatload of biplanes

Is listing the pllanes at the
Champlin Fighter Museum cheating?

F16's A10, C5, C17,  C135 are commonly seen overhead




:) :D

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Re: Interesting birds
« Reply #26 on: September 08, 2003, 11:06:59 AM »
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Originally posted by llyr69
Falcon Field, Mesa AZ (just Sof Phoenix):

B17
P51D
P47
Spit5
ME109G
LA5
P38
P40
N1K

A boatload of biplanes

Is listing the pllanes at the
Champlin Fighter Museum cheating?

F16's A10, C5, C17,  C135 are commonly seen overhead




:) :D


Got a pic of the spit5?

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« Reply #27 on: September 08, 2003, 11:12:52 AM »
Not sure what you mean by "your airport"... but there's quite a few airports in the area with quite a few vintage aircraft.

Evergreen/McMinnville airport has around 43 flyable aircraft from 1909-1970s (military and civilian) and the Flight Museum has the Spruce Goose and an SR-71... along with numerous WW2 aircraft.

While at the beach just south of Tillamook last month, a Fw-190 flew over en rout to the Tillamook air museum.  Quite a few vintage WW2 fighters fly around there (Was where Jeff Ethyl crashed in a P-38).

Also, across the river in Vancouver, Washington is a few private owners that have and/or are restoring WW2 planes including P-51s and F4us.

Oh... and "Texans" are pretty much everywhere.

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« Reply #28 on: September 08, 2003, 11:36:19 AM »
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Got a pic of the spit5?
Loser,
I was at Falcon Field in 1998, and took a pic of the Spit V.  

Here it is...


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« Reply #29 on: September 08, 2003, 11:39:04 AM »
C130s and a ****load of KC-135s.  440th Air Refueling wing stationed at Gen. Mitchell International in Milwaukee.

oh, and an F4J Phantom and B25 Mitchell (as a monument/display type thingy).

We also have F16s stationed near Madison.
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