Alleged incident
"Or with F15Es dropping 500lbs bombs on Holme on Spalding Moor "
Oh for Christ sake, it was only a BDU-33 and the offending aircrew were properly chastised and made to buy beer. Besides, in his column the following Sunday, Jeremy Clarkson said it was ok since he dropped a bomb on the U.S. during his F-15E flight (although I was sitting a few feet in front of him and can't quite recall anything falling off the jet, except him, trying to climb down the ladder while holding his puke bag once it was all over). Way back when I was flying Hogs, while waiting to bootleg the east coast and the Wash ranges, if you were moving, you were a target. One guy in the Sqdn was accused of killing a horse once from the "noise" of an A-10 low flying. The victim was described as an expensive purebred but was most likely on the way to the glue factory when the grieving owner saw an opportunity to get some cash from Uncle Sam. God I miss low flying in the UK.