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[Edlor]

Austrian T-55  2 Jabo Schulstaffel Horsching 1966






Download here: New link https://www.mediafire.com/download/4cl562eh5282lvx/Austrian_Vampire.rar

[SAS~Gerax]

Many thanks for bringing back my youth .. !

Saw two Austrian Vampires in summer 1971 when they did a low flying maneuver
just above our heads. Was at "Schloss Tandalier", a youth hostel near Radstadt,
where I spent the summer holidays and while playing football suddenly
those strange looking planes appeared ...   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radstadt
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Tandalier

greetings from Vienna. 

[Edlor]

You're very welcome SAS~Gerax.

  It's always nice to hear about peoples encounters with these or any aircraft for that matter. For me as a child there was always the airshow at the CNE ( Canadian National Exposition ) in Toronto and living in a little town on the shores of Lake Ontario between Toronto and CFB Trenton there was always aircraft travelling between those points. It was in my late teens when I had my closest encounters though as a member of the Canadian Armed Forces I got to train with not only Canadian aircraft but with the U.S. aircraft as well.

Thanks for the links by the way. I'll have a read through later and it must have been quite enjoyable spending your summers there 

Thanks again,
Ed

[Hubberranz]

Talking about childhood experiences, mine was in the 1950's and people today, judging by the mods we do have
on that specific time period, do not realize what a roaring whistling experience it was to be anywhere near a jet plane.
Talk about some high pitch whistle ( from the front ) turning into a powerfull air-rush roar as they passed by...
Today it's all about turbo fans and double flux anti noise pollution tech. But back then, they did not care about such nonsense !
I lived near a CF-100 airbase, and planes with only contrails seen high above would echo like a nearby thunderstorm's aftershock.
In the sixties I had many times an Argus maritime patrol ( non jet ) fly over our house and squash my wits in a low tone super rumble; that I will never forget.
Ten to twenty times per day it seems, a Fokker/Faichild F-27 turboprops would screech above my home, miles off the city's airport,
making us wish the wind would turn so the traffic flew on the more distant alternate approach. 
Today we barely notice planes as they swoosh by; and that's what jets do in il2 ! They just swoosh by, like gliders with mufflers.

But there still some Hueys from nearby military base passing over from time to time, reminding me of a "Good Morming Vietnam! "
They have a quite impressive long inbound 'burrr-hummmm', and an aggressive fly by 'tuck a tuck a tuck', 'whomp, whomp, whomp' ! ( where t = f  ) LOL! 

Ok: When you hear the jet sounds at the beginning and end of "Back to the USSSR", now you are a tiny bit closer to the horrific truth...

[Edlor]

Gotta love memories like those Hubberranz.

I can still hear the sounds of Kiowa's thirty feet away winding their turbines up first thing in the morning as I'm crawling into the seat of my Cougar preparing to do another route recce down some dusty country road.

But of all the memories I've had with aircraft the best for me is when I got to see the looks on my children's faces when they experienced their first encounters with aircraft. Be it at an airshow or the local airport or the best one for me by far was taking my kids to the Wendy's on Airport Road in Toronto where it seemed like you could reach up and touch the belly's of the 747's as they landed or took off. Seeing my kids in the parking lot jumping and waving at each aircraft with burgers and fries in hand made for an experience that I'll never forget and one that they still tell their friends about.   

"Back to the USSR"..Hmm somebody's age is showing

[Hubberranz]

That is what my first airshow looked like.

[Edlor]

That's awesome Hubberranz

[barber]

Hi!

Thank you very much for the Vampire skins, Edlor.
They are great!

Cheers
Barber

[Edlor]

Thanks barber and you're very welcome. 

[RDDR Hangar19]

Hi there brother,
Boy! You sure have been busy.
 We got our first dump of snow up here in Santa Fe last night.
Nothing like snow at 7,300 ft with the exception of the Annex in downtown TO. 
Cheers Christopher

[Edlor]

Thanks RDDR. 

   That I have been brother and wow your a ways up there. Hope you got your woolies on

We just got our first dumping here as well and those were the days in T.O. eh. Nothing beat idling your way up the Don Valley Parking lot on a snowy afternoon on your commute home to make you wish you hadda called in dead the night before. 

Cheers,

Ed