the blue note

[Boggy]

If your attending yeovilton airday this year your in for a treat,I spent an hour this morning watching five old hawker hunter jets doing what looked like a session to work out a display, absolutely stunning noise that is called the "blue note" which only the hunter produces by all accounts!Myself and Aidi watched one at yeovilton a few years ago and it make the hairs on your neck stand up. But five WOW. you can hear it as it banks,a sort of howl above the jet noise. and again on the high speed pass.

[video=youtube;4mz4ZTTuEt0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mz4ZTTuEt0&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;dTFQ7p3EoDk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTFQ7p3EoDk&feature=related[/video]

its not just the merlins!!:D

[Planehazza]

The second one [I]almost[/I] sound F1 ish.

Awesome sound, kind of like a strong gust blowing through a tree.

[Adrian]

coor i remember when they used to be flying over all the to ,untill they disbanded them all

[Boggy]

Yep i remember them days Adrian.I had a flight in a hunter up to wales and back shortly after joining yeovilton ships company,so it has special memories for me:)

[antsis]

The blue note sound is made by the slipstream passing over the gunports.

[Red3]

ahh memorys my nan used to live on by the end of the runway at yeovilton we used to get the phantoms going over as well. ahh the good old days i did take my dad back there to the air day last year it borught back alot of memorys for him and me. my dad worked at westlands when he was young.