Thread: ‘But WHY’

Hi,
When 75 Sqn was at RAF Tenga about 1968, the strip was not far from the barracks.
With Mirages and RAF Lightnings doing night flying it was impossible to get enough volume in the TV to listen to anything.
Cheers

Originally Posted by Konradical

Flightline noise on most Aussie RAAF bases is pretty bad. Edinburgh used to have P3s running up for hours on end, sometime over shifts. The drone was horrible. Couldn't imagine it would be much different at Richmond. Williamtown is pretty much on the taxi way/runway and when the jets take off in pairs, six to eight at a time, you just have to stop everything you are doing and cover your ears. Tindal was far the best. Even the closet point, the movements hanger hardly hear them. Even living there you only heard them when the wind changed direction and they did the approach flypast over the accommodation.



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Fortunately we don’t get too many fighters at Richmond but yes aircraft sitting on the flight line with engines running for hours. Even at 11kms away on an otherwise quite night it is very noisy, enough to wake you up.

Originally Posted by travelrover

Fortunately we don’t get too many fighters at Richmond but yes aircraft sitting on the flight line with engines running for hours. Even at 11kms away on an otherwise quite night it is very noisy, enough to wake you up.

The drone from those turbo props makes you battey!

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
When 75 Sqn was at RAF Tenga about 1968, the strip was not far from the barracks.
With Mirages and RAF Lightnings doing night flying it was impossible to get enough volume in the TV to listen to anything.
Cheers

Had to look that up! Singapore! Would have been awesome.

There was a Mirage at Edinburgh that used to be part of ARDU and they flew it during displays and airshows. Was noisier taxiing then an 18 at full noise on the tarmac.

Come to think of it, alongside the Mirage was a DC3F(?) which also did the same sort of thing. We were involved in putting them on permanent display around the base, (cause clearly mechanics don't have things to fix) but could not spot them after the base redevelopment.

Hi,
ARDU at Laverton was my first posting. Interesting work.
Cheers

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
ARDU at Laverton was my first posting. Interesting work.
Cheers

Yeah it would have been! Tried to get side posted one year, but magically it was extended a year for the person already there and then it became civvy, which again magically, that same person got the job.

Lots of neat things in that hanger. Always remember being told to mind my own business and nothing in there (aside GSE) was for me..

I'm curious why aircraft engines need to be run for hours. ^^^^

Is it so the Ground Engineer can stick his little screwdriver in the hole & fiddle with the idle & mixture & suck through his teeth with a knowing look on his mush while shaking his head, (as one does with one's Rideon Mower) or is it like a diesel HGV where even if they stop for a Sarny they keep the engine running, usually right outside one's window?

Some of us need to know.

Originally Posted by Bluetoes

Flew in a C-130 from the U.K. to Gibraltar it was quite worrying that the co pilot was checking the hydraulics were still leaking just after take off he actually said later if they weren’t leaking he would have been concerned

Maybe, like the SR-71 Blackbird, the C-130 flies so fast, and heats so much, that the metal expands and stops the leaking!