Was talking to a family member yesterday who saw what he described as a loud, large radial engined ww2 fighter plane make a fast pass over Elstree, late in the morning on Monday 4th October.
He’s aching to find out what it was, asked if I knew what it was, but, I wasn’t even in the country then :rolleyes: , but I said that there’s a pretty good chance somebody on the Flypast forum will know……. 😀
Anybody help with warbird movements that day……????
By: WSA - 14th October 2004 at 13:25
Could be TFC’s Hellcat – that produces a whistle at high speeds.
By: Arabella-Cox - 14th October 2004 at 13:06
Lowtimer – the leg’s fine now ta. Happily running on it again. Lesson number one in the Yak world seems to be; pay attention to the driver, he knows how high up the wing is… 😉
By: DGH - 14th October 2004 at 13:06
Where was Janie 😉
By: Andy in Beds - 14th October 2004 at 12:24
La-5, Ki-100, Firebrand?
Mike,
now you’re getting very silly.
You know we were only told off for silliness just the other day.
You’ll be saying Boeing XF8B-1 next or even Curtiss XF14C-2 😀 😀 😉 😉 😀
By: Archer - 14th October 2004 at 12:21
An Oscar? 😀
For sound effects perhaps? 😀
By: DazDaMan - 14th October 2004 at 12:20
An Oscar? 😀
By: DazDaMan - 14th October 2004 at 12:16
That, was next on my list! :p
By: Firebird - 14th October 2004 at 12:15
The bell must have sounded for playtime again then………. :rolleyes:
What no mention of a Zero……..shame on you all 😀
By: DazDaMan - 14th October 2004 at 11:40
Focke-Wulf 190, Boomerang, Tempest Mk2? :p
By: Moggy C - 14th October 2004 at 11:39
Skua, Roc, Wirrawarry?
Good game this
Moggy
By: Yak 11 Fan - 14th October 2004 at 08:52
Thunderbolt, Bearcat, Hellcat, Wildcat, Yak11, Corsair, Avenger, T28?
By: Steve Bond - 14th October 2004 at 08:50
Harvard?
By: duxfordhawk - 14th October 2004 at 00:51
Could it be Skyraider by any chance?
By: Yak 11 Fan - 13th October 2004 at 23:13
Are you sure it was radial engined?? Or could there have been a Merlin lurking in there?
By: Firebird - 13th October 2004 at 22:51
Not likely to be the RNHF Sea Fury on the way back to Yeovilton?
😀 😀
That was my first thought, especially as he said the sound had a distinct whistlling noise……but then I remember it wasn’t Monday of this week but the week before so guessed it wasn’t the Sea Fury on the way back from Duxford….. 😉
By: Lowtimer - 13th October 2004 at 22:16
Just a thought, but Yak 52’s / 50’s are loud, radial engined and can look very much like WW2 fighters compared to your average spamcan.
Steve,
It’s only loud on the inside! Honestly… if you hear four or five Lycoming engined types fly overhead, or climb out from the end of the runway while you listen from the pub in the village, and then hear a Yak rumble over, it’s a lot less prominent than the Arrows and Pittses of this world. Big slow-tunring prob and big exhaust manifolds, relatively even flow of exhaust gases.
Inside though as you know, it’s a VERY noisy eroplane.
How’s the foot coming on, then? 😀
By: Arabella-Cox - 13th October 2004 at 15:51
Just a thought, but Yak 52’s / 50’s are loud, radial engined and can look very much like WW2 fighters compared to your average spamcan. If what your family member saw had red stars on it, I’d put my money on it being one of them.
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