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Wow. I was sitting at home having just finished lunch when I heard the most awesome noise I've ever heard! We live near an air corridor so I'm use to small planes flying over or even the odd Chinook or Apache gunship but nipping outside with the kids we saw the 2 last remaining airworthy Lancaster bombers right overhead! The sound was AMAZING :D

I've seen the single Battle of Britain Lanc doing it's stuff at airshows but this is the first time I've experienced two airborne Lancasters at cruising speed, something like 200-300 feet in the air together! I couldn't believe how loud it was or how long it took to fade away!

Just wish I'd had my phone on me to get a video.

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The experience, let alone the planes, sounds awesome! I live near the flight path of the air show planes at the Canadian National Exhibition (The Ex), and around late August - early September we get these old fighter planes, bombers, and the occasional CF-188 overhead. The sound is just incredible!

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The 2 Lancasters flew over our home in Peterbrough this afternoon at low level - what a wonderful sight and sound . 8 MERLIN engines in perfect unison . Totally made my weekend .

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Quite a few times a year in the summer we have Spitfires practicing overhead, the last one was flying over whilst we were modding the driveway so we waved the towels we have to mop our brows and as it flew around us it dipped it's wings :D

A RR Merlin on full chat is one of those sounds that just pins you to the spot and moves your very soul B) mmm...

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Amazing sound. Once you've heard it you'll know what it is next time before you see it...

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Quite a few times a year in the summer we have Spitfires practicing overhead, the last one was flying over whilst we were modding the driveway so we waved the towels we have to mop our brows and as it flew around us it dipped it's wings :D

A RR Merlin on full chat is one of those sounds that just pins you to the spot and moves your very soul B) mmm...

If you think it sounds good on the outside, you should hear what it's like on the inside B)

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If you think it sounds good on the outside, you should hear what it's like on the inside B)

More information please my inquisitive chip is overloading :P

However I fear once information has been passed i may become soooo green with envy I may resemble a 6' 4" Alien :ph34r::ph34r::ph34r:;)

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More information please my inquisitive chip is overloading :P

However I fear once information has been passed i may become soooo green with envy I may resemble a 6' 4" Alien :ph34r::ph34r::ph34r:;)

I had the honour and privilege to get a 20 minute ride in the back seat of a genuine WWII veteran 2 seater Mk IX Spitfire back in 1995. (Was originally a single seater during the war and was later converted) Flew from Duxford airfield, did rolls, 3-4g loops, a few tight turns, fast pass back over the runway up into a victory roll, and then back in to land. It was a fantastic experience, and very surreal taking off looking out of the cockpit at the camo and roundels on the elliptical wing, 1400hp roaring away up front, talk about sensory overload. It was also quite amazing coming off the top of a loop, accelerating vertically downwards, seeing the ground rush up towards you at high speed over the long nose, and still being pushed backwards up into the seat with the acceleration.

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I had the honour and privilege to get a 20 minute ride in the back seat of a genuine WWII veteran 2 seater Mk IX Spitfire back in 1995. (Was originally a single seater during the war and was later converted) Flew from Duxford airfield, did rolls, 3-4g loops, a few tight turns, fast pass back over the runway up into a victory roll, and then back in to land. It was a fantastic experience, and very surreal taking off looking out of the cockpit at the camo and roundels on the elliptical wing, 1400hp roaring away up front, talk about sensory overload. It was also quite amazing coming off the top of a loop, accelerating vertically downwards, seeing the ground rush up towards you at high speed over the long nose, and still being pushed backwards up into the seat with the acceleration.

Mmm... Heaven...

That sounds sooo awesome it's just not true! I would love to fly in a Spit or a Lanc, actually any of the WWII RAF fighters or bombers, it's on my bucket list just need to work out how to achieve it.

I am now official very green and changing my name to Zogg after that post :lol::lol::lol:;)

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You lucky wotsit - must have been amazing!

What does my head in is that I am currently reading a brilliant book on the history of WW2, and quite often it was literally kids flying these things towards the end. There are several anecdotes about how these young guys (on both sides) actually enjoyed flying these aircraft even though it was life and death - very different to what the guys fighting on the ground felt. You can understand why (to an extent) when you hear one, and I imagine getting an actual flight in one would definitely bring it home...

@wood5tock - if you work out how to do it, let me know ;)

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That's super cool you got to see them. I love hearing the roar of those old WW2 planes. I work next to the NASA Ames Research Center where the California air national guard flies MC-130P combat shadows and HH60G Pave hawk helicopters over our campus. I've seen some other really cool aircraft fly over like the Osprey, F-18's and a Joint strike fighter.

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