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Old 9th Aug 2018, 11:32
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I'd hazard a guess that most kids would love it it.
Aged about 9, I was playing in my grandmother's garden in Llwyngwril, on the coast a mile or two south of Barmouth, when a Phantom cracked overhead at about 0 feet and a zillion knots*. I was certainly startled but WOW! First fast jet I remember seeing...

*Actually might have been a Sea Vixen, memory sometimes sees it as a twin boom; probably closer to 1000' and perhaps 250kts...
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