I was in the garden today and around 4,00pm a Lancaster Bomber flew right overhead - what a fantastic sight! Mrs VA told me to grpw up as it was just a plane!  2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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I had the same reaction once when the SR71(?) Blackbird spy plane flew over me, I just stopped talking and stared at it, just glad I wasn't driving and my mate was

Lanc is a wonderful sight - we used to get the BOB flight over here for the Waddingotn air show - not seen this year.....

They did it last year IIRC for Richard Todd's 90th ....

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Concorde was at Lego land years ago heard it coming from Heathrow everybody just stopped it flew directly overhead was noisey though.

Chinook helicopters they fly over my yard quite often makes my hair stand on end. 

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My Grandad who's just turned 92 used to be a navigator in the lancaster bombers in WWII, he never really liked talking about it much. He was a bit miffed that fighter command took all the glory for saving England when bomber command ended up taking all the for bombing the city's which they were ordered to do. He's also been as deaf as a post as long as i can remember with chronic Tinitus after sitting next to the engines on such long flights. Unfortunately theres not that many of the old guys left  Now gone Orkney grey SDV6 HSE with body style kit contrast stitch ebony leather, privacy, black piano, 22" Lowenharts for summer, 20" with Leon LTZ for winter.
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Was at Stanstead airport when shuttle came over on 747 was a sight to see 

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F16C is the most common sight at my house in Belgium but then I only live a few km from the airfield. One of the best sights I seen was a F117 in formation with the red arrows. Up here at Wick I've seen many different aircraft, the Avro Shackleton was a regular visitor along with F4 Phantoms and once a flight of 2 A10 Warthogs. On the last day of service of the Bucaneer we had one do aerobatics over the harbour estuary. Or to sitting in the pilots seat of a friend's Avro Vulcan a few years ago or in his EE Lightning. Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
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We have had a few times the Eurofighters flying (what feels like) about 6 inches above the office from BAE Warton.

What a sound!!

With all the talk of the Lancaster I thought this might be a nice pic to post.
I took it a few years ago at RAF Leuchars.
It's the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster flanked by the Spitfire & Hurricane.

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Needs a couple of Me109's and a Stukka just to complete the scene and please the man with white Chinos................................ 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Rudskibaliblu wrote:

Unfortunately theres not that many of the old guys left

one less since last week! sadly , my business partners uncle died last week, lovely gent he was, he was in the pathfinders in a lancaster, who basically lit up the way for the bombers to do their work. as they were the first in and alone, they were sitting ducks for most of the time, and a lot of the pathfinders did not make it back, including the captain of his plane ( a gung ho 21 year old who tried to limp the thing homeafter it got shot at over abbeyville in france)
his uncle baled out and managed to evade the germans for a couple of months but was eventually captured, and sent to a camp in germany, the captain and one other (whose shute tangled in the tail),were buried in the war cemetry at abbeyville, we went there on business once and amazingly found the two chaps graves, very moving! MY10 TDV6 SE (debadged ), Santorini Black, Flappy paddles, Privacy Glass, 20" Stormers, Mudflaps!

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My old house was near Brooklands and at the bottom of my drive was where Barns Wallis tested his theory on Bouncing Bombs - rather appropriate that my son os called barnaby 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Was once strimming the grass with an industrial strimmer, wearing visor and ear plugs, when I became aware of this drone over my own noise, switched off and looked up, Lancsater and Spitfire escort, magnificent majestic sight, and what a sound, was quite moved purple people eater

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