Originally Posted by Wee Jock McPlop
Anything would be nice to drown out the sound of the local 'neds' in their 'modified' Corsas, Saxos and the like.
Indeed Jock! Which reminds me of a low flying complaint that wasn't made back some time in the 1940s. My Great-Uncle Fred, serving with the RAF in the Middle East. Granted home leave, he intended to make his return to Strathearn one to remember. The last leg of the journey involved him hitching a flight in a Blenheim from Prestwick to Scone. This provided a chance too good to miss so the pilot was requested to go down low so they could make their presence felt. He was only too happy to oblige and they were soon whistling in from the west, resulting in startling the living daylights out of my Great-grandparents who were left face down in the fields such was their alarm. Just to make sure, they repeated the fly-by before beetling off to Scone where in some sort of prompt karmic cycle, my Uncle managed to disembark from the Blenheim in the middle of a CO's parade. Having been personally escorted from the station by the SWO, berating him all the while on an assortment of apparent shortcomings, he walked the remaining 20 miles back to my Great-Grandparents. On arrival, they rather took the carpet out from beneath his feet by refusing to acknowledge any sight or sound of an aeroplane that day, far less one at 30 feet resulting in them having had to seek shelter in a ditch
How I would have loved to have seen something like that! I was fortunate enough to undertake something kind of similar above the same place 40 or so years later when I was taken up in an Aerobat circa late 80s by an instructor from ATS at Scone (think he may have been ex-Vulcan pilot, P*** C****). After graciously allowing me to undertake a few loops, he went on to demonstrate some quite exhilarating aerobatics.
All the best,
Fawlty