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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2008 15:56:30 GMT 1
I'm sure I heard this go over today, around 14:00, and there was one showing on SBS at FL230 - can anyone confirm or did anyone else hear it ?
Bumpy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2008 23:52:20 GMT 1
Yes, it flew over my house in Bicester at lunch time. Departed out of East Midlands about 1310 bound for Toulouse.
What a sound! Managed to get a peek at it too, through the quite heavy cloud cover of the time. First time I've seen it.
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Post by Buster the Bear on Mar 28, 2008 21:01:28 GMT 1
The first time I ever heard it, it sounded like a formation of IL18's, a stunning aural delight, but I had no idea what it was due to cloud until a friend told me.
I happened to see it on departure from Stansted passing Barkway through 6000' AWESOME!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2008 11:13:11 GMT 1
The only one of these I've seen 'in the flesh' is still the one that flew into Farnborough 1988. Anyone remember CCCP-09329 coming in with a replacement engine for one of the russian exhibits? The funny things, the previous year, I had a dream (for no reason that I can remember) about one of these flying low over my back garden (downwind for runway 25[?]) inbound to FAB. Of course, at the time, it was a dream I wanted to come true but never expected it to and definitely not the following year!
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Post by 06visual on Mar 29, 2008 13:49:58 GMT 1
CCCP-09329 now resides at Tver-Kalinin, unfortunatley WFU, with the prefix RA
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