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#4129943 - 06/05/15 08:45 PM Spooky moment!  
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A Lovely early summer evening a year ago. Glass of wine in hand I sit in the garden listening to the birds, watching the insects and stroking my dog.

Then the peace is shattered, an aircraft is approaching, the engine sound was strange, yet familiar,

eventually the aircraft hove into view,. I gazed up as a Fokker DR1 flew over head. it appeared to be Voss' aircraft if my rusty knowledge of markings was anything to go by.

As it went by my wife waved at it, the pilot waved back and circled round, I stood wondering if I was in some strange time warp as the aircraft circled. pilot waving,it's not every day a triplane circles round you! It then flew off to the north and waggled it's wings.

I later found out the aircraft was a replica flown out of a local airfield.

A real surprise to see it. I have been lucky enough to see it again on a number of occasions since.

I believe it is flown at a number of air shows in the UK and has been used in a BBC documentry.

#4129959 - 06/05/15 08:57 PM Re: Spooky moment! [Re: cCromwell]  
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Originally Posted By: cCromwell
A Lovely early summer evening a year ago. Glass of wine in hand I sit in the garden listening to the birds, watching the insects and stroking my dog.

Then the peace is shattered, an aircraft is approaching, the engine sound was strange, yet familiar,

eventually the aircraft hove into view,. I gazed up as a Fokker DR1 flew over head. it appeared to be Voss' aircraft if my rusty knowledge of markings was anything to go by.

As it went by my wife waved at it, the pilot waved back and circled round, I stood wondering if I was in some strange time warp as the aircraft circled. pilot waving,it's not every day a triplane circles round you! It then flew off to the north and waggled it's wings.

I later found out the aircraft was a replica flown out of a local airfield.

A real surprise to see it. I have been lucky enough to see it again on a number of occasions since.

I believe it is flown at a number of air shows in the UK and has been used in a BBC documentry.



Wow...that's really an "experience!! thumbsup Where that all happened? The place I mean,I used to live outside of London,Uxbridge Middlesex and my house back garden (well my uncle's house to be honest!) was at the back of the RAF compound,where they used to control all fighters during the Battle of England in Summer 1940,You know that big underground room with all the WAAFs moving little flags over the Southern England map? And a few miles from there there is Northolt Airbase,home of several RAF Squadrons and I have seen during celebrations,flights of Spits pass above very low...thunderous sound,shivers...even a Lancaster once,but never biplanes unfortunately... rolleyes


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#4130007 - 06/05/15 10:33 PM Re: Spooky moment! [Re: cCromwell]  
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That's incredible! A Dr.1... you really got a treat.

I live very close to the Air Power Museum at Republic Airport (KFRG), so now and then I see a P-40, B-17, B-25, C-47, or even a Corsair buzzing around in the sky, but it's not often at all.

But a Dr.1.. other than Rhinebeck in upstate New York, there aren't any in my area. I'd love to get a surprise like that!

All the best,

OvS


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#4130060 - 06/06/15 01:22 AM Re: Spooky moment! [Re: cCromwell]  
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....pictures.....I wouldn't had any either....just watch it fly by with a grin on my face.

#4130164 - 06/06/15 11:21 AM Re: Spooky moment! [Re: cCromwell]  
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I think that must have been the same Feeling like watching a UFO, or a Flying Spaghetti Monster... you just don't believe, what you see... am I right? eek2

#4130488 - 06/07/15 02:08 PM Re: Spooky moment! [Re: cCromwell]  
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The Dr1 was out of Shipdham airfield in Norfolk I believe. In WW2 the USAF flew Liberators out of there.

Also I don't think the engine is actually a rotary, probably a radial.

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#4130557 - 06/07/15 05:43 PM Re: Spooky moment! [Re: cCromwell]  
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I think I will never see something like that , ever in my life, you lucky man.

#4130609 - 06/07/15 08:42 PM Re: Spooky moment! [Re: cCromwell]  
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Originally Posted By: cCromwell
The Dr1 was out of Shipdham airfield in Norfolk I believe. In WW2 the USAF flew Liberators out of there.

Also I don't think the engine is actually a rotary, probably a radial.


Probably a Rotax..... wink salute


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