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I think that was the same engine as the Vulcan bomber - I can remember when I was 12 or so watching a Vulcan doing aerobatics above the small Scottish village
by arethuza 3y ago
I think that was the same engine as the Vulcan bomber - I can remember when I was 12 or so watching a Vulcan doing aerobatics above the small Scottish village where I grew up.
A Vulcan being thrown about the sky is quite an impressive sight, but what I really remember was the noise....
Many years later I was sitting in the BA lounge at Heathrow waiting for a flight to Edinburgh and pretty much the whole room started shaking and a loud rumbling could be heard. Someone commented it was Concorde taking off... :-)
- sofixa 3y agoYep, it was the original use case, the Vulcan bomber's engine. > Many years later I was sitting in the BA lounge at Heathrow waiting for a flight to Edinburgh and pretty much the whole room started shaking and a loud rumbling could be heard. Someone commented it was Concorde taking off... :-) Unfortunately there was a v2 revision/refresh of the Concorde that implemented many small improvements, including reduced noise, but it never got off the drawing board due to poor sales of the original model, which itself was in part due to the Concorde world wide tour to prop up sales, which used an even louder pre-production model and left a bad impression.
- arethuza 3y agoThere was also the ear splitting noise of the engines but also what I have since learned was the Vulcan's characteristic "howl"... I have no idea what the aircrew were doing, apart from having some fun, possibly waiting to land at Lossiemouth or Kinloss...
- ethbr1 3y agoThis seems to be a decent approximation, absent the bone shaking that mics can't capture: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJlsDiC9TBI&t=12s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJlsDiC9TBI&t=12s
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