PpPete
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ColinJ said:My dad took me to an air display at RAF Gaydon when I were a lad. It was all very interesting until a boring bit when he told me to look up at the lightnings. Well, I didn't really see the point because there weren't any black clouds in the sky so there wasn't much chance of a thunderstorm.
I was staring up at the white clouds and wondering what the point of all this was when - KABANG - two English Electric Lightnings shot past each other from opposite ends of the runway, about 100 feet above my head and about 50 feet apart!
I hadn't noticed them coming and to say that it gave me a fright would be grossly understating it - I was still shaking about 10 minutes later. It was an impressive stunt but if the pilots had got it wrong they would have killed hundreds of people in the huge crowd below them. I don't reckon that Health & Safety would allow it these days...
A friend of mine from the USAF always described Lightnings as "machines for converting jet fuel into noise"
Was once buzzed by a Tornado in "terrain following mode", not on that road though, somewhere in the wilds of Scotland. Even in a car the noise was un-f***king-believable.