Raf Marham is a pretty remote airfield.toom317 wrote:I seem to recall that our F35's were going to be based at Lossie, and part of the reason was because of the noise problem.
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Hardly -at least 20,000 people live within about a 5mile radius!
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Well, have you ever noticed how RAF airfields are named after the nearest postal village? That's because the village was there for hundreds of years before the RAF... maybe it's the RAF that should be thinking about where they 'live'. After all they are public servants.britaylor wrote:People know where the airfields are why live near one when on nights then what will happen ?? try and close the base down
In WW2 it was a case of knocking-out airfields as quickly as possible in accessible locations, for a planned short duration of inconvenience to the local population. 70 years later with no exisistential threat to the nation and with a need for only a handful of bases there's no reason for them to be located anywhere near population centres.
The MoD is to be commended for its consideration in basing the F-35s.
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Why would we want to drown out the noise of bagpipes?tm74sqn wrote:The other part of the reason is that the F-35 is so noisy that it would drown out the noise of bagpipes!toom317 wrote:I seem to recall that our F35's were going to be based at Lossie, and part of the reason was because of the noise problem.
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F35: Fungry and Fugly
Whatever noise it makes, however loud, it will still be far preferable (IMHO) to the dirge that is the mournful drone of the bagpipes
Enough to make any sentient being slash their wrists
Whatever noise it makes, however loud, it will still be far preferable (IMHO) to the dirge that is the mournful drone of the bagpipes
Enough to make any sentient being slash their wrists
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Is it really that loud though? I can't recall it being that much louder than anything else when it was at RIAT a few years back... even in the hover. Loads of people were saying how noisy it was, but I remember being a little disappointed that it wasn't all that loud to me.
I feel that from the sound alone, most members of the public would not be able to tell the sound of an F-35 and F-16 (or any other afterburning jet) apart at full afterburner from their homes - but that's just my opinion. Kind of like a placebo effect, people only know it's louder because you tell them it is - or something like that.
I feel that from the sound alone, most members of the public would not be able to tell the sound of an F-35 and F-16 (or any other afterburning jet) apart at full afterburner from their homes - but that's just my opinion. Kind of like a placebo effect, people only know it's louder because you tell them it is - or something like that.
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I can tell you it is louder than you average fast jet. Certainly the 'B'.
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With you on that one Paddy.paddyboy wrote:Whatever noise it makes, however loud, it will still be far preferable (IMHO) to the dirge that is the mournful drone of the bagpipes
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Must be a FEB thing.paddyboy wrote:
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Yes Paddy, those IRISH bagpipes make a hell of a racket...paddyboy wrote:Whatever noise it makes, however loud, it will still be far preferable (IMHO) to the dirge that is the mournful drone of the bagpipes
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Another reason they wont be doing a lot of low flying! Not that they need too.
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Actually its after the nearest village with a churchturmo wrote:Well, have you ever noticed how RAF airfields are named after the nearest postal village?
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Originally it was the nearest railway station.
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I'm with you Nighthawke.
RAF North Luffenham is at Edith Weston.
#51 Sqdn was based at RAF Snaith which is located in Pollington. http://www.51squadron.com
Just to prove a point.
Cottesmore, Wittering, Kings Cliff, Polebrook are nowhere near a railway station. I suspect that there is no system of naming stations RAF ones, that is.
Fans of the F-35??
Doesn't the B variant have a fan of its own? Now that shows some foresight.
RAF North Luffenham is at Edith Weston.
#51 Sqdn was based at RAF Snaith which is located in Pollington. http://www.51squadron.com
Just to prove a point.
Cottesmore, Wittering, Kings Cliff, Polebrook are nowhere near a railway station. I suspect that there is no system of naming stations RAF ones, that is.
Fans of the F-35??
Doesn't the B variant have a fan of its own? Now that shows some foresight.
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F-35 is noticeably noisier than other FJs. I spent a fair bit of Tuesday around threequarters of a mile from Eglin's runways with regular F-35 movements. Even at that distance (with plenty of forested land in the way) the -35 takeoff noise was far louder than that of the loaded F-16s also working the ranges.
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I'd rather be called an FEB then a glaiket ool chuktah
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All in all the F35 is turning into a bit of a disaster isn't it? -long live the "tonka"may she carry on for many years yet.oh and by the way if they want to complain about noise i think if they heard a fully laden victor climbing out of Marham in the 70's and 80's as i did regularly then they would relise just what LOUD really means(they used to make your ribcage rattle!).
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sorry, a bit of a typo there,i can spell realise really!
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F-35's are most definitely louder than a Victor. Different sound if that makes sense, but most definitely louder!
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Better take earplugs when i eventually get to see them at Marham then!.
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