Years ago I was at Coningsby. I remember laying in bed on hot summers nights with the window open. The silence would be broken by a distant "merrrrr" of a warning horn as someone on the night shift closed a canopy of a Tornado F3 sat on the line, quite some distance away. It wasn't loud or intrusive, just haunting how far the noise carried in the night.
Bizarrely, every night when the fire section went to duty supper. The fire engine always changed gear at the same point outside by my window. You could set your watch to it.
Last edited by gr4techie; 30th Sep 2013 at 19:07.