On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:31:22 +0000, Tim wrote:

You're just seconds away from Cambs airport. They have a mixed set of
customers and it's possible it was a jet.

But OTOH I live directly under the approach to EGSC runway 05, and the
now disused approach to Alconbury that the lovely U2s used. If the wind
is in the right direction I can hear every takeoff from Mildenhall, and
watch their circuits. I had a PPL in the USA, and have flown from
Cambridge in the Marshall's school Cessnas and from Gransden Lodge with
the Cambridge Gliding Club. I have been an aircraft enthusiast since
Peter Twiss flew the Fairey FD-2 at 1132mph to take the World Speed
Record in 1956. I am used to seeing aircraft and to rushing out of the
house when I hear one that I don't immediately recognise from its sound.
And in the case of the U2 or any military piston-engine when I *did*
recognise the sound!


What I saw was not an aircraft.


Mike