On 8/2/10, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, I know. In those days I was working in Reading, on the top floors of > the Butts centre. That's right underneath the flight path from Heathrow > if, as was customary, take-off was to the west. So we used to hear the > Concorde with the engines set on full after-take-off climb. There was no > mistaking it for anything else. After a while it was so ingrained in our > consciousness that we noticed it more if it didn't happen.
My grandparents lived in Reading at the time of the Concord as well. My grandmother would reflexively go to her china cabinet whenever the Concord flew over, and check on her plates and spoons. Guaranteed at least one of them would be shifted just from the noise and vibration. -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
