Testing The Sound Mirrors That Protected Britain
Over on the RAF Starrship channel, I'm talking about the history of radar: - but over here, we're testing a 90-year-old piece of technology that was meant to be part of Britain's air defence. The Sound Mirrors, on Romney Marsh, were built in the late 1920s as a way to amplify the sound from aircraft engines over the English Channel. We're flying a bit closer than that, with a drone.
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Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway 90th Anniversary Gala 13th-14th May 2017
On a fine day on the Romney Marsh in Kent, and i am back to the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway attending for their 90th Anniversary Steam and Diesel gala but this gala is a special one when they are doing evening night run. Three visiting engine were attending the gala two from the Bure Valley Railway and one from the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway. Nearing the end of the video features the parallel running from Hythe to New Romney with No.7 Typhoon and No.10 Dr Syn on one train and the other train was No.3 Southern Maid and No.6 Blicking Hall and a special bit in the video shows No.2,3,7,8,9 and 10 doing the multi heading from New Romney to Hythe and then back to New Romney.
In this video will feature a lot of traveling behind the locomotives and some close up and lineside point.
Both day was really worth doing and it was fun to have!
The RHDR Locos Features:
- No.2 Northern Chief
- No.3 Southern Maid
- No.4 The Bug
- No.5 Hercules (featured in the video once since she failed on the Big end bearings to run hot and taken out of service)
- No.7 Typhoon
- No.8 Hurricane
- No.9 Winston Churchill
- No.10 Doctor Syn
- No.12 J.B. Snell
- No.14 Captain Howey
The Three Visitors:
- BVR No.1 Wroxham Broad
- BVR No.6 Blicking Hall
- R&ER Synolda 4-4-2
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Dymchurch
Day out at Dymchurch
The Kent Coast With Two Drones For One Day Shot in UHD 4K
The Kent Coast With Two Drones For One Day
Reculver Towers and Roman Fort (Shot with Dji Mavic Air drone in UHD 4k) In high Wind.
Reculver Lane | Reculver, Herne Bay CT6 6SS, England
The Reculver Towers are all that remain of a Saxon church, St. Mary’s. Located near Herne Bay, the church was part of a Roman fort which guarded one end of the Wantsum Channel. The fort was built around 210 AD, whilst the church was constructed in 669 AD. The church was demolished in 1809, as it was thought it would collapse into the sea. However, the two towers were kept as a landmark for shipping. It is reported that back in the middle ages ships would dip their sails as they sailed passed the Church as a sign of respect.
The two towers are also known as “The Two Sisters” after two nuns from the Faversham Abbey. Frances, the Abbess, had recently recovered from a serious illness, and accompanied by Isabella, they set off on a pilgrimage by boat, to the shrine at Broadstairs. Off the coast of Reculver they became grounded on a sand-bank, Isabella shortly died from exposure but Frances survived. In memory of her sister, Frances had the church restored and had a wooden spire added to each stone tower.
Stone Bay Beach (Shot with Dji Mavic Air drone in UHD 4k)
Eastern Esplanade, Broadstairs CT10 1DU, England
Richborough Roman Fort and River Stour. (Shot with Dji Phantom 4. drone in UHD 4k)
Richborough Roman Fort, Off Richborough Road, Kent, CT13 9JW
Richborough Roman Fort, originally called “Rutupiae”, in Kent marks the site where the Romans successfully invaded Britain in 43 AD.
Known by many as the “gateway to Britain” and also Richborough Castle, Richborough Roman Fort is thought to have begun as a military stronghold for the invading Roman soldiers and developed into a civilian town and one of the country’s main ports. One reminder of the leisure facilities of this historic town can be seen around five minutes away in the form of the vague remnants of an amphitheatre.
The impressive stone walls that still stand at Richborough Roman Fort are the remains of a wall fort built by the Romans in the late third century AD to protect against the Saxons. Visitors can also see remaining defensive ditches and the ruin of a first century
triumphal arch.
Deal Castle And Deal Beech Marine Road Deal, CT14 7BA
(Shot with Dji Phantom 4. drone in UHD 4k) AND (Shot with Dji Mavic Air drone in UHD 4k)
Deal Castle is located right on the beach in the town of Deal in the south east of England, its important position was chosen to guard a stretch of water used as an anchorage and landing ground.
This Tudor artillery castle is built of reused materials such as Caen stone, brick and Kentish ragstone removed from dissolved religious buildings nearby. The castle is surrounded by a curtain wall with six low bastions and gun platforms. The castle itself consists of a three storey circular tower with six semicircular towers projecting from it. These towers give the castle the appearance of a Tudor rose form the air and are perfectly symmetrical. The castle is protected further by a dry moat and gatehouse with its murder holes and gun port which are still in good condition.
Dover Patrol Memorial
Hawks Hill Road Leathercote's Point, East of St Margaret's Bay, Dover CT15 6DT. England
(Shot with Dji Mavic Air drone in UHD 4k)
Memorial commemorates the men who served in the Dover Patrol during the First World War and the many who lost their lives. A later inscription commemorates the sacrifice of the men of the Royal and Merchant Navies who died in their duty on the Dover Strait during the Second World War. First World War (1914-1918) Second World War (1939-1945)
Sunset At Dungeness / Romney Marsh TN29 Kent England
(Shot with Dji Phantom 4. drone in UHD 4k)
music clips from
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Afternova - Into The Sky (Original Mix) [Abora Recordings]
Beatport:
French Skies - Story Of An Epic (E.T. Project Remix) [Veritas Recordings]
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IWM Film Newchurch ALG
This film is silent and is a film from the Imperial War Museum about the Newchurch ALG.
A rather windy Littlestone
Littlestone beach
Mulberry Harbour Littlestone
A Mulberry harbour was a portable temporary harbour developed by the British in World War II to facilitate rapid offloading of cargo onto the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy
Abandoned Wartime Engineering Sound Mirrors near Greatstone Kent RSPB Reserve
7th July 2018. My walk through the RSPB reserve at Greatstone / Denge / Lade to reach the three acoustic mirrors built in the late 1920's and early 1930's.
Now scheduled monuments the mirrors proceeded Radar as a method of early detection of airships and aeroplanes.
Access to the site is strictly limited by the RSPB.
Greatstone Interview 1
With Mike, at Greatstone beach in Romney Marsh, Kent, from manonabeach.
EXPLORING AN INTACT SOUND MIRROR
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*The aim of a sound mirror was to detect enemy aircraft by the sound of their engines and provide warning before aircraft could be seen.
*The sound mirrors at Fan Bay worked by concentrating sound waves into a central point, which were picked up by a listening apparatus facing the curved surface. An operator using a stethoscope would be stationed at the front of the mirror. Specialist training was needed to distinguish between different sounds.
*A curved sound mirror would increase the distance for hearing an aircraft’s noise. Mirrors were often made of, or lined with, concrete as this made a good sound reflective surface.
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Our failed attempt at getting close to Denge marsh sound mirrors
During our week of work we tried to take a closer look at the sound mirrors at denge marsh, sadly some fool brought a dingy with a hole in it
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28 dymchurch rd mh
1st of march we deiced 2 do a most haunted
Graham Kemp on jet ski The Varne sailing club, Greatstone
Graham Kemp braving the cold
'Sound Mirrors' ... early radar that never quite worked!
'Experimental' in design sound mirrors were intended to be early warning systems for detecting zeppelins... they date from the beginning of the last century... 1900 ish ????
BBC News
Sound Tourism
Wiki
Operation Charnwood - High Level Bombing
Operation Charnwood was the code name for the advance of British I Corps on Caen, Normandy in July 1944. The city was held by the German 12th SS Panzer Division. Prior to the ground assault, RAF Bomber Command undertook preliminary 'softening up' attacks on the city.
This video was made from footage taken from a RAAFSquad online coop session. We met the mission objectives, and everybody returned home safe and sound.
Pilots flying were _RAAF_Angel, _RAAF_Mini, _RAAF_Smouch, _RAAF_Sniper, _RAAF_Steppie, _RAAF_Stupot & _RAAF_Toumba.
_RAAF_Mini constructed the outstanding map.
Denge Sound Mirrors (Historic Document)
A new document into the sound mirrors in Dungeness, Kent.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Denge is a former Royal Air Force site near Dungeness, in Kent, England. It is best known for the early experimental acoustic mirrors which remain there.
The acoustic mirrors, known colloquially as 'listening ears', at Denge are located between Greatstone-on-Sea and Lydd airfield, on the banks of a now disused gravel pit. The mirrors were built in the late 1920s and early 1930s as an experimental early warning system for incoming aircraft, developed by Dr William Sansome Tucker. Several were built along the south and east coasts, but the complex at Denge is the best preserved.
There are three acoustic mirrors in the complex, each consisting of a single concrete hemispherical reflector.
The 200 foot mirror is a near vertical, curved wall, 200 feet (60m) long. It is one of only two similar acoustic mirrors in the world, the other being in Magħtab, Malta.
200 ft Acoustic mirror at Denge
The 30 foot mirror is a circular dish, similar to a deeply curved satellite dish, 9 m (30 ft) across, supported on concrete buttresses. This mirror still retains the metal microphone pole at its centre.
The 20 foot mirror is similar to the 30 foot mirror, with a smaller, shallower dish 6 m (20 ft) across. The design is close to that of an acoustic mirror in Kilnsea, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Acoustic mirrors did work, and could effectively be used to detect slow moving enemy aircraft before they came into sight. They worked by concentrating sound waves towards a central point, where a microphone would have been located. However, their use was limited as aircraft became faster. Operators also found it difficult to distinguish between aircraft and seagoing vessels. In any case, they quickly became obsolete due to the invention of radar in 1932. The experiment was abandoned, and the mirrors left to decay. The gravel extraction works caused some undermining of at least one of the structures.
The mirrors with the swing bridge visible in the foreground
The striking forms of the sound mirrors have attracted artists and photographers. British artist Tacita Dean created a film inspired by the complex. The band Turin Brakes featured the mirrors on some of their album covers. The object appeared in the music video for Blank & Jones' A Forest.The mirrors have also been featured in the music videos for Invaders Must Die by The Prodigy & Young Kato - Something Real.
The mirrors are in the process of being transferred from the aggregate quarry owner to become part of a nature reserve. In 2003, English Heritage secured £500,000 from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund and from the EU's Interreg programme under the Historic Fortifications Network, as administered by Kent County Council.[3] This money was spent to restore the damage caused by the gravel works, as well as to install a swing bridge which now is the only means of access, reducing the monument's exposure to vandalism. The site is now only accessible during guided tours, or by wading through the water close to the swing bridge which is only waist deep.
THE CLASSIC TRACTION REVIEW 2017: Volume 1
The Classic Traction Review 2017: Volume 1 covers January to May 2017 and covers some of the many steam and diesel highlights as seen on preserved lines and on the National Network in the UK.
Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway - Official video
Both aerial and on board shots. Interviews with the drivers, staff and the general manager. From fire lighting at 5 am, through to stunning aerial shots arriving at Dungeness....and of course, fish and chips in their marvelous station cafe'
Made by eaglevideo.co.uk Canterbury, this forms part of a much longer dvd which will be available late spring.
Newhaven
Scenic small film about a man fishing in Newhaven with his dog as company