But not much gets past our friend Ken Harrison, of the Brigg Matters newsletter, who took this picture of an Atlas Airbus A400M transport aircraft passing overhead.
Ken is ex-RAF and tells us this type of aircraft has been in service with his branch of HM Forces since 2015.
Many of us in Brigg are looking forward to seeing the WW2 Lancaster bomber - based at RAF Coningsby - in our area now the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight member is back flying again. What a wonderful sight it is - we never tire of watching it...and listening to the engines!
Returning to the topic of Brigg Horse Fair 2016, have you viewed all three batches of Brigg Blog pictures taken yesterday?
If not, here are helpful links....
First batch
Second batch
Third batch
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The aircraft type is intended to replace the Lockheed Hercules...the work-horse..by 2022ish
It you enlarge photo, you should see that the prop hub is multi-propped...the inner and outer props on each wing rotate in opposite direction.....the combination increases performance..ie lift is increased by about 5 percent.
On twin-propped boats, the propellors similarly rotate counter to each other, often via a left or rights gearbox.
If the props swung in the same direction, the boat would torque in in a certain direction.
....machines, as they are not completely balanced, create vibrations...these vibrations are ripples...or frequency waves...with two paired machines turning/spinning/rotating in opposite directions, the frequency, or vibration tend to counter each other..and there is less vibration.
It's a bit like throwing two stones into a pond...one at one end and the other at the opposite side...Both will cause a circle of ripples, but where the ripple meet their intensity is reduced.
I was one of the privileged few who saw it land at the 'V'-bomber base at RAF Waddington in the mid-'60's...It was taken on-charge by No 44 Squadron at that time....otherwise it would have become a museum piece.
I also had the honour of being allowed to go into the aircraft....it was tatty!
A chief technician, a crew chief was appointed with the task of undertaking the initial refurbishment...at that time, it didn't have the mid-upper gun turret...that came some years later.
I'm almost certain that its airframe number was not the same, PA474, as it has today....PA474 was a WW2 Lanc with 44.
Later, the Lancaster was transferred to the BBMF....I think at that time was based at RAF Coltishall, near Norwich.
I got another close-up of the Lanc in 76..the very hot summer, when I accompanied a group of air cadets for their summer camp at Coltishall...and had my photo taken by Spitfire AB910..later learning it was the Spitfire that took off from RAF Hibaldstow with a WAAF hanging for dear life sitting its tail!
The transformation was outstanding...still no mid upper turret tho'.
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