hello all
Three from Baldonnel: "Trog" making a beeline for the gym, flashing past the Tower, in a Fouga, at about ten or so feet.I saw it from inside the white Casa. He pulled up and missed the airfield beacon by a gee-hair. Wonderful!
The then West German President is taking off in a VFW-614 (look it up). The pilot is fresh off Starfighters. He cranks it past the Tower at 90 degrees, right over the hangars! Puckered sphincters all round!
An Alpha Jet of the Luftwaffe was last to leave on the Monday after an Air Show. The Swedes had gone in their Drakens, a Yank in an A-10, A Frenchman in a Mirage 2002. All did a few rolls before heading off. Myself and a friend were seeing the German guy out, a very friendly Major. We implied that the previously-departed visitors were unworthy wusses, unfit for public consumption,etc. He told us to stand where we were and wait. He taxied out a few minutes later and took off. He threw that little jet about like a demented fly and finished off by diving directly at us pair and blasted over our heads at not much higher than our heads, going at full tilt. He cranked it around again, came back at a slightly more respectable height and waggled his wings at us. We waved and cheered like crazy men and wore huge grins for the rest of the day.Brilliant and etched on the memory.
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TDD