Re: Another Airbus down ....

lucifer@eternal-flames.gov wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:11:50 +0100, Walt Davidson
> <g3nyy@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:45:43 -0700 (PDT), Yeti <yeti@ayrshore.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> VC-10s make some noise, don't they? Some take off power as well
>>> though.
>> They do indeed.  One passes overhead here almost every day and I can
>> hear it for miles after it's gone out of sight.  They would certainly
>> not comply with present-day noise abatement standards!
>>
>> Concorde was equally noisy, mind you.  They used to pass almost
>> overhead my QTH in South Wales at 28,000 ft ... and that was well
>> before the accel point in the Bristol Channel on their outward journey
>> to New York.
>>
>> 73 de G3NYY
>
>
> If you think the 10 was noisy you should have heard the Russian copy.
> (IL62).
>
> You could still hear those the day after take-off and smell them even
> longer.  Great plumes of black smoke out of the engines...  I suspect
> they ran on diesel.  ;-)
>
> Nick.

Heard the Il-62 as well, holidaying in Eastern Europe has it's advantages.
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