never underestimate a british man and his backyard

Always be thankful for men who collect stuff and proudly show off how noisy they are. Even the cat enjoys the jets

Imaging having a neighbour like this and you just moved away from living near London Heathrow to the country side. LoL . BTW i love it !

What a great way to spend a sunny afternoon!😊

Oh i imagine doing this at home in my driveway. My neighbor gets excited when we laugh on the porch after 10pm.

A couple cases of beer and this would be one hell-of a party.

Aww yes, the classic British inventors in their garden sheds! Bravo guys! Awesome work!

I was part of the 5 bed(Barnoldswick) crew that tested RB168-25R Phantom Engines, I can still remember the Re-Heat flame for about 30ft into the detuner.

Glad you guys are still at it! Still remember the RB211 from so many years ago =)

What a great engine! And a dream to be able to run it at home. 😁

Used to run and maintain No 7 Test Cell at Hatfield. Four De Havilland Ghost 50s. The thrust was collected by two big power turbines and then stepped up to via gearboxes to 17,000 shp. We used to test RR Compressors from engines such as RB 199, Tornado Pegasus Harrier and the RB 211Fan. Lots of fun.

Great stuff, good to see the ubiquitous Black and Decker work mate in action too. What an amazing weekends work!

Love it! So British and man in shed. Great work on getting it running and what a great sound.

Fantastic ! I love this kind of neighbour, 73 from Chris F4FLU

Lovely sound. I bet the smell was awesome too 😁

"IN THRUST WE TRUST!" ✈ Working as an A&P Mechanic engine runs was one of my most favorite things to do & get paid for it 😊. It was totally awesome standing outside alongside a big 4 engine aircraft with all 4 jet engines at full takeoff power! Thanks for sharing guys

Please do another one or two this year! You cant leave it sat there it'll get lonely ;)

Sheds, engines and fuel. Lovely.

Always handy to have one of those around; there's no faster way to make a salad

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Fantastic! I do love the sound of the engines. Screaming' Power!!!

You are all mad man! Mad man of a very cool kind! 🤩😆😎

The whole time I was thinking what if the engine breaks off mount and flies strait at them 😂😂 love jet engines who doesn’t hopefully more to come ❤❤

I would love to live next door to guys like these.

Ah, loved the sound of these spooling up in HMS Campeltown. pretending to avoid missiles. Fun times.

Used to work for a company that had a GII with speys. The sound on takeoff was glorious

Absolutely awesome. Love the sound of the Spey spooling down 😎

Great testing guys! Kick some more dust off, and get those turbines kicking. Great episode. Explains allot! Thanks! - NOM

1) I used to work at Pratt & Whitney and really like this video 2) that was the loudest intro music ever haha

Great sound. Love it. Bet the neighbours love this guy. Lol

I like the 'danger of death' sign right above the cat flap 🤣

Its not a Merlin but I will take it! What a wonderful sound.

Sheep's and cats must be deaf by now , Great to see those massive engines in action

Who doesn't love this type of backyard ingenuity!....Though I hope those poor sheep can retreat to a safe distance.

Thank goodness for Black and Decker Workmates !😀

That's an unusual hobby. Great fun.

Holy cow! It’s the Hansen brothers!

Very good. Well done chaps!

Love it, just a few guys having fun!

These boys know their shit. Well done

You can definitely shake the neighborhood with that baby

Awesome work guys!

As I watched this video I could smell the engine. Wonderful.

It gave me a good laugh when you started the big engine 😂

I work with turbo molecular pumps whose blades are usually machined from a single piece of aluminium, but in principle are identical to the high compressor stage of a turbojet - minus all the fuel etc because we’re drawing a vacuum, so instead of an APU to begin N1 we use diaphragm, rotary, and various sized backing-pumps that run continuously and maintain a steady 37Krpm at the turbo and achieve a vacuum of 1e10-6mbar down to 1e10-12mbar UHV - the engineering is phenomenal though, even longitudinal axis centrifugal and oil bearing! Move them once at full speed and it can be a very expensive lesson in physics for some new engineers! The control electronics has triple redundancy safety which I’m proud to say I’ve reduced to a single button Start/Stop separate from the software - it’s only taken 20 years 😂 I can’t imagine the time and brains that must have gone into these monsters - what an amazing world we live in - I wonder if they utilise the back-emf to maintain certain safety systems as I’ve done with the turbo molecular pumps? Stay healthy, and stay safe guys! I recognise that Fluke DMM - I still use an Avo 8 Mk III on occasion too, beautiful piece of test equipment, misses nothing! 👍😉🇬🇧

Leaf blower extraordinaire! 😆

Awesome, 73 de GW8TVX I spent a tad short of 40 years involved in QA in the manufacture of Titanium starting blanks for the big engine blades (amongst other things) for RR, P&W, GE etc. from RR the original RB211, E4, 524, Trent 550, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000 and XWB. Wonderful to see and hear a finished product in operation.

I love that sound !!! 😍

Ah The Spey 250. Nimrod MR2. I have worked on those, thanks for the memories!

Beginning sounded like the Millennium Falcon having difficulty starting. Lol

ironic that you’re using an APU from a 146 to start the Spey. If my memory serves , the 146 is electric start so this APU would never have been used for engine starts before. great video. I love the pointlessness of it all. Just guys playing with big machines. Awesome.

Now that's what a real jet engine sounds like!!!!

Nice to have those guys as your neighbours.

We guys just never get bored😂

i'll love these parts and that engine for my neighbour to show my love to them🤣

These British guys with jet engines in their backyard just crack me up. And not one, but TWO APUs! Cheers, gentlemen!

Hello ian and Roger its been a long time, good to see your toys are getting bigger.

Nice toys, I was wondering where all this wind of late was coming from, now I know 😁

Fantastic. I wish I had one or lived near you!

In a semi-sozzled state after celebrating a significant birthday, I bid on a Spey on eBay. I didn't get it (thankfully) - but nearly did... I do have a set of fully polished stage 1 and stage 2 fans on my wall, though I bought years prior.

This looks like something my friends and I would do. I approve.

Neighbors have gotta love you.

Me, who didn't understand what is going on, enjoyed the sound and leaves move around.

I remember actually jumpseating on a Fokker 28! The jumpseat was this weird thing that pivoted and it was totally uncomfortable. The Fokker 28 was a great airplane, from what I remember about it. These guys are all about the engines, something that I love, but airframes are cool too! Great video!

I was a bit confused by the use of the APU but then I got it. You needed a "huffer" to start the big engine. Damn I would be afraid of that thing breaking from it's cradle and flying across the yard. LOL

That brought back memories of the time I lived between Heathrow and Northolt....

Excellent. Are you friends with your neighbours 😂?

Ah they RR Spey...also used on the Fokker F28...those were LOUD...mega loud. Cool!

I can't figure out what's cooler - the big jets, or the mini turbine :)

I’d love to have neighbors like that! Could mount it on a cart & use it as leaf blower!

Blows my mind that this was the jet engine used in the F-4K/M Phantom II. Absolutely crazy, I love it.

Really cool video. Never knew these jet engines needed a APU to start them.

forgot to say LOVE the supertanker shackles holding the BEAST IN SITU

15:53 love the RF interference :)

Bet the neighbors just love you don't they?

Those 36-6 APUs were 'dogs'. We converted the sole GIIB in our fleet to the 36-100 because of it...lots of buckling in the combustor, etc... The sheer distance from your 36-6 to the mounting stand was always going to be a limiting factor for start. Heck! on the GIII with the 36-100, it was not uncommon to see almost 1000 degrees when the load valve was selected to lockup the manifold. Those 5-11 Spey are great engines. In the twenty plus years I worked with them, I have never seen a single failure and we flew ours quite a bit.

WIFE: "what is this gosh forsaken noise out there" HUSBAND: "meeeeh the bloody guy next door playing with his jet engines again" 🤣

ex aircraft engineer here. re air starters. i once worked at Marshalls aerospace in Cambridge on contract with Tristars ... a Tristar (pre twin towers) out on the pan had both air start motors stolen/removed from the outboard RB211s ! (very expensive / very lucrative i presume) what really bothered everyone was the fact that an operator somewhere bought them without documentation

This is awesome to watch you can see why these engines come in handy after service like using them for melting snow from railway lines and so much more, this would be great to dry out the cricket 🏏 pitch

I normally follow Agent Jay Z on UKposts, great videos and a real expert in turbine engines but you blokes have brought it to another level. Brilliant video boys.

Dont tell Kahn, he'll say the exhaust isnt ULEZ compliant. Absolutely brilliant. I have a Pelousti starting engine which was our squadron gate guardian. I believe used with the Sea Vixen. Maybe one day....

your neighbors must love this lol

I was just about to say, "only in America", then you opened your mouth. 😉 In South Cumbria in the late 80s i had a shed full of experiments I had the police around asking what and why most weeks Wasn't making noise or bothering anyone Cant believe how much more free England is now and more people are doing things like this The internet has opened us up more

Imagine being a bug on a leaf of grass behind this bad boy ...

Damn I wanna hang out with these guys!

"Today at the Noisy Boys..." Amazing hobby, I'll say.

"Turn your NEIGHBOURS into ENEMIES with this one cool TRICK"

So I guess that you really were making hay while the Sun shines! 😉👍

Mooom the neighbors did it again !!!

...good to see some country brits enjoying some big jets

And he neighbours fkn love them.... 😂

Now, release the chains ! Maximum power! 😂Cheers from Texas .

Exciting as watchjng Alka Seltzer on a hangover.

I’m sure the Cat will love that 😂

Some blokes in a shed in England messing about with jet engines, absolutely brilliant.

5:12 I bet those trees in the background are remarkably free of bugs!

Wow so cool!!! Why is the big one rattling like that when spinning down? Sounds like a problem with a main bearing… I assume that there are no bearings with balls inside because of the high speeds so that doesn’t make sense either.

You made me remember how much I miss the smell of Jet A1. Time to fire up one of my original propane and compressed air start AMT Pegasus engines and maybe the Mercury and video them running before selling them. Just not into travelling to airfields to fly gas turbine jets any more 😢

was that a phantom f4 engine , would be great if the afterburner was lit :)

three of those in the Viper 😎😎