aviate1138
29th Jun 2009, 07:50
Yesterday the wife arranged a surprise B'Day party for yours truly. A load of old farts were going down nostalgia lane when I reminded SWMBO that in a previous relationship she was attached [briefly] to a 208 Squadron Hawker Hunter pilot. At that precise moment [late afternoon] a Hunter flew over heading Westwards with a nearly but not quite 'blue note', he can't have been doing more than 250 knots? aiming I presume, towards Kemble. We have lived South of Farnham for 12 years and that is the first time we have seen a Hunter overhead and it made my day.
Thanks to whoever was flying the machine and also to the Jet Provost that appeared a little later. Similar track.
The other thing about coincidences that always amuses me is to be driving and listening to the radio and hearing someone say a word like 'Concorde' or 'Sunset' and reading that same word on the side/rear/front of a truck or bus as the word is spoken.
The other one is driving under a bridge as a train goes over and then sometime later approaching an unmanned level crossing and wondering if the same coincidence might occur, with a totally different outcome!
Thanks to whoever was flying the machine and also to the Jet Provost that appeared a little later. Similar track.
The other thing about coincidences that always amuses me is to be driving and listening to the radio and hearing someone say a word like 'Concorde' or 'Sunset' and reading that same word on the side/rear/front of a truck or bus as the word is spoken.
The other one is driving under a bridge as a train goes over and then sometime later approaching an unmanned level crossing and wondering if the same coincidence might occur, with a totally different outcome!