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Our new house is nearly directly under one of the two final approach flight paths for Heathrow. The planes come over at about 2,500 feet and we have a large rooflight which means i can lie on the sofa and watch them coming over. Some of them start putting their landing gear down right above us.
I have to admit that I love it. They dont make too much noise and I'm turning into a bit of a plane geek by watching them approach on flightradar24 to while away time when im on the turbo.
If there was any doubt before I am now certain that I'm a boring bastard.
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They dont make too much noise
True, bloody eco-nazis have ruined it for everybody. When I were a lad, we had proper amounts of aircraft noise out in Winkfield; now I never hear them in Slough, only about half as far from the end of the runway. I miss the days when every Concorde take off was saluted by a hundred car alarms going off in Colnbrook :-)
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http://www.lfgss.com/thread81085.html
First post explains.
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I like z=y-x, the projection plane for isometric view
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Never knew we sold Rolls to the Russians to make these
We had a Labour government which was sympathetic to the Communists. The Russians bought about 3 engines and then ripped off the design without ever paying any licence fees to Rolls.
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Did I say Rolls was paid?
Have an electric helicopter...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tNulEa8LTHI
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we sold Rolls to the Russians to make these...
Did I say Rolls was paid?
I suppose it depends on your understanding of the verb 'to sell' :-)
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This is a great photo:
Me 109 at the Braunschweig wind tunnel, lateral view (1940). : DLR archive Cologne.
Info and other interesting photos:
http://www.dlr.de/100Jahre/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-3303/5152_read-7463/gallery-1/gallery_read-Image.37.3207/
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