Given where we live, we are used to military aircraft bobbing by at all times of the day and night but over the last week or so, this week being especially manic, low flying practice of fighters and heavy aircraft (day and night) has gone off the gauge. The last time this happened Libya got a shit load of British bulldog. I am thinking some one better baton down the hatches as the worlds finest is going to be playing hard ball anytime soon.
I loved standing on the bank at Leverton marsh watching the bombers coming in on their practice runs. Phantom jets at the time the odd BAC lightning.
Good old Blighty government got a sniff of free oil, minerals or financial gain somewhere else then? We can't fookin cope with our countries mess, never mind anyone else's! Petrol price rise anyone?
I live beside an RAF base but they closed it down so I dont get to see the usual fighters and Apaches
Same thing happens down here at RAF St Mawgan, used to be lots of US military but they buggered off leaving it to the professionals.
And everyone seems to moan about the racket our exhausts make. They are putting me right off 'I am a celeb’ don’t they realise some off us have to get up early in the morning. Put the baffles back in for fcuk sake, that plane is never going to get thought its next mot like that.
We're past the watershed now so I can say it. That noise gives me a hard on. The last serving RAF aircraft we had down here were Vampires and Meteors, although I do have a knackered old picture of me as a babe in arms with Mosquitos parked on the apron at Exeter airport.
all these planes practicing is nothing to do with any foreign wars .. it is for the civil riots that will start when this feking government put the price of beer up at tescos . nations health my arse !!!! yet another stealth tax!
I saw the news this morning and it maybe that they are loading up with supplies from Brize Norton? for the xmas period.
I spent most of last evening in the loft looking for this reminder of the good old days, about 30 years ago, when the fear of being embroiled in a proper, if brief, shooting war stopped us from oversleeping in the morning and it was easier to get my fill of re-heated paraffin. And as a bonus found the baby kpone in the presence of aviation royalty. No Megs, it's not during the war, it's 1961.
Looks like you are getting your wings at an early age there Ken .Ps nice to see a good old Duffle coat .
I've been in love with that aeroplane from as long as I can remember, Mike. When we were kids and everybody else was drawing pictures of Spitfires with pencil dot tracer coming out of the wings I was sticking my tongue out of the corner of my mouth and drawing Mosquitos. Fighter pilots make movies, bomber pilots make history. Plus, it was only a few years ago I learned this photograph existed. Pre destiny.
