Originally Posted by SASless
directly from behind the factory building/hangars with gear/flaps down...streaming colored smoke...and unseen/unheard until overhead at about a couple of hundred feet maybe. Children cried...women wailed....and Men almost wet themselves withe sudden onset of noise...smoke...and mulitple jets in close formation.
Best I've seen for that was the Canadian 4 ship team of CF-104Gs in the '80s.
There was one occasion at Mildenhall when I reckon 99.9% of the crowd had no clue at all they were there until Armageddon* fell.
Only one downside - no coloured smoke.
*Good to see davejb agrees with the comparison!