I love the racket a pair of Trents or GE90s makes.
I love watching a fully-laden A380 hauling its fat ass skyward, or a fully-laden A343 thinking about it (except Air Jamaica's, that was just terrifying).
I miss Concorde shaking the ground.
But nothing - nothing - beats the sound of a proper steam locomotive.
Whether it's an express screaming through the night or a monster like this protesting at being asked to get a freight train moving, or even just sat still ticking and hissing to themselves, they're the closest anything we've made from metal will ever come to living, breathing, having a soul. Love them. Absolutely love them.
ANCFlyer wrote:That is a big sum-bitch . . . . spectacular.
According to Wikipedia, over 1.1
million colony-kilos including tender, with a top speed of 80mph, neither of which I knew until now. Always imagined (and certainly have always seen) them as packed with grunt but never imagined them to be capable of such speeds. That must be quite something to behold at full pelt.
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.