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Old 3rd Jun 2011, 19:45
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jamesdevice
 
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Saw German Navy "Vikings" at Yeovilton in 1982 - Falklands year, most of the locals were in the South Atlantic and the visiting performers all seemed to "pull the stops out"
Those two German Starfighters have left an ever-lasting impression of noise speed and sheer insanity. So low the grass was kicking up behind them, oppossiiton passes with afterburner on at seemingly zero feet with visible shockwaves trailing. Incredible. You literally FELT their presence - and not just from the sound

That was the same show where when the "Marine Commando Assault" finale finished and the assorted multicoloured odd-ball Wessex that hadn't found a sea-berth landed en-masse, a hundred or more young kids ran through the safety barrier onto the apron to greet them. I still have bad visions of a single yank Chinook pilot screaming at them to get back as a Vulcan landed...
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