In my role as amateur air marshall

[lizwilliams]

An open note to the RAF: chaps, I've no objection to you flying whopping great Chinooks over my property first thing in the morning,jolly good show, carry on and all that, but if I can see, e.g, the soles of your boots? Bit low.

Unless Al Quaida are hiding in the pond again. God, that's such a bore.

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[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Sympathies. Grew up with this sort of thing. When I was a kid, the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels would practice over the housing development every year in preparation for their airshows at the local base. In retrospect, they were probably flying much lower than they were supposed to be flying over a suburban housing development because everyone came out to wave and point and they liked doing a pre-show show for the impromptu audience.*wry grin*

The worst was idling at the intersection by the Naval R&D center's runways minding your own business and waiting for the light to change, looking up as the sky grew dark, and being able to count the rivets on the underside of a C-130 or a P-3 as it came in over the intersection--and your car--to land. You just had to cross your fingers that they didn't inadvertently put down the landing gear on, say, your roof.

But I always liked the way an old A-10 manual of my father's put it: "You can only TIE the low-altitude record."

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

>But I always liked the way an old A-10 manual of my father's put it: "You can only TIE the low-altitude record."


LOL! I've mentioned my test pilot friend before - we used to get regularly buzzed on the archaeological site....

I think the equivalent of the Blue Angels are the Red Arrows - like you, we used to get them flying in formation over the house in Gloucester. One year, I went down to the Brighton seafront to discover a big display - they hadn't been to B'ton for years, ever since one of them had to ditch the plane in the sea. But he missed the pier, so that was OK.