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A long time ago I did some work for British Airways at Heathrow. The staff car park for Viscount House where I worked was directly under the flightpath and by t
by dcminter 5y ago
A long time ago I did some work for British Airways at Heathrow. The staff car park for Viscount House where I worked was directly under the flightpath and by the end of the south runway.
Minutes after a big jet had landed you would hear the noise of the vortices reaching the ground - they sounded like someone whipping a long stick to and fro.
This was when Concorde was still flying - that would set most of the car alarms off from the engine roar and the dirty brown trail of partially burnt fuel was a sight to behold!
- Intermernet 5y agoThe inner-west of Sydney is crazy for jet-wash effect. Something about the Sydney basin geography means that, when the conditions are right, you can get multiple minutes between a plane going over (at very low altitude) to the weird jet-wash paint smear of sonic cavitation ripping the sky apart. It's awesome. Apparently there are quite a few calls to various bodies either complaining about or reporting unidentifiable noises in the sky. It's pretty much the only positive of having a busy international airport so close to the centre of the city (obviously it's been a lot quiter over the last 14-15 months).