Re the High Rotation Take Off.
I was at Wattisham in 68, as a AI 23b fixer on 29 Sqdn.
We had a Good Neighbours day, as a way of making up to the locals for too many night QRA scrambles and one or two fast run in and breaks!!!!!!
Part of the Display was a Scramble of 8 Mk3s, 4 from 29 and 4 from 111, 29 had one go U/S with a massive bubble on a tyre, so the scramble was 4, 3 and then 1 from different ends of the Runway. all 8 did the Rotations and spectacular and noisy it was.
However that was not the end of it as the flights formed up into 2 Box formations and flew from behind the spectator line very very very fast and low (just above hangar height ) exactly on time just as the commentator said ‘ Ladies and Gents I present No 29 and 111 sqdns )
If I remember rightly they all lit there Afterburners and went vertical at that point.
It was the most spectacular and noisiest thing I have ever seen or herd.
Don’t think the Neighbours were very impressed though!!!!
