Peace and Quiet with an Evo!
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Very true, although many of them did at least hope to get back home! The longest surviving aircraft managed 139 sorties before being retired - unfortunately my uncle's got shot down on it's third flight, although he did survive. There are only two left in flying order today, one here and another in Canada. Amazing to think they were being built at a rate of 30 per day, at the peak of production! I got a taxi ride yesterday in one of just two left (again one in Canada) that are complete enough to be run and move on the ground, under their own power.
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Ah place names! The only Newbury I know is in Berkshire, to the west of London. There used to be at least one USAF airbase nearby. We also passed through Boston yesterday - I believe there are around 80 of them, worldwide!
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Yes, very good memories. I believe it was only an hour train ride to London.. I would like to return someday... Although all the barracks Greenham Common were torn down and condos we built.... I see the old Manor house is still there though....
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It's a lovely part of the country, especially since the Greenham Common protesters camps have gone!
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Isn't Mother Nature strange?! Hurricane Nate, which has added to the woes of so many Americans, is impacting on our UK weather in a quite different way. All those systems cross the Atlantic, getting significantly downgraded as they travel, but this week we are getting unseasonal warmer weather from Southern Europe, thanks to Nate. Weird.....
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While away we visited one of the WW2 air fields from which Lancaster bombers flew on their night-time missions. With their 4 V-12 engines, they were simply started up then taxied the short distance around the airfield from their dispersal bays to the runway, by which time they had warmed up enough for take-off. So next time we discuss the starting and warm-up procedure for our Evos, just think of that 5,000HP about to be unleashed into the night sky!
While away we visited one of the WW2 air fields from which Lancaster bombers flew on their night-time missions. With their 4 V-12 engines, they were simply started up then taxied the short distance around the airfield from their dispersal bays to the runway, by which time they had warmed up enough for take-off. So next time we discuss the starting and warm-up procedure for our Evos, just think of that 5,000HP about to be unleashed into the night sky!
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I don't really know how to explain it, but even with the relatively smooth sound of turbines in my war, there was an intense feeling, a mix of excitement and anticipation, when multiple aircraft spool up and it's not practice any more. With those Lancs, you wouldn't just hear it, you'd feel it. Occasionally, thinking about it, I feel just a tinge of sadness I'll never experience that again, but at the same time, rather glad I won't! I flew in skies dominated and protected by an armada of friendly aircraft; those Lanc crews figuratively flew into the jaws of the tiger beyond help or rescue, incredibly brave and determined young men.
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Pie sounds good especially with the bullshit I have been dealing with.
A month after the vandalism and attempted theft of my Corvette, I caught somebody lurking behind someone elseâs house in my subdivision at 1100 at night. I ran his *** out there and out of the subdivision. A couple of weeks later, I found the storm door glass on my house completely shattered. I think it was the guy that I chased out of the subdivision that did it but have no proof. I am getting a glass place to replace the glass of the door with the laminated glass that is used in a car windshield. I talked to the police and they are patrolling the subdivision more.
A month after the vandalism and attempted theft of my Corvette, I caught somebody lurking behind someone elseâs house in my subdivision at 1100 at night. I ran his *** out there and out of the subdivision. A couple of weeks later, I found the storm door glass on my house completely shattered. I think it was the guy that I chased out of the subdivision that did it but have no proof. I am getting a glass place to replace the glass of the door with the laminated glass that is used in a car windshield. I talked to the police and they are patrolling the subdivision more.
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