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Surely not co-incidental with the school holidays and the second homeowners turning up to their holiday cottages expecting peace and solitude like they get on Saturday and Sunday they rest of the year when UKLFS is shut!
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Snowflakes in Wales in mid-Summer ... who would have thought that?
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Having seen the spotter forums on FB I think the RIAT participants increased the traffic levels in the loop somewhat.
Some cracking photos out there.
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Some cracking photos out there.
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Alan Jones Evans, a councillor for Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd, said: "The noise can be incredibly frightening for young children and the elderly.
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I'd hazard a guess that most kids would love it it.
*Actually might have been a Sea Vixen, memory sometimes sees it as a twin boom; probably closer to 1000' and perhaps 250kts...
Roger Harris, a visitor to the Dyfi Valley area, recalled a time he heard the planes going over.
He said: "From nowhere there came this terrifying scream of a jet going across this narrow valley.
"It frightened the living daylights out of me. It was actually heart stopping and left me shaking and disorientated for a while."
He said: "From nowhere there came this terrifying scream of a jet going across this narrow valley.
"It frightened the living daylights out of me. It was actually heart stopping and left me shaking and disorientated for a while."
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
We used to get Merlins too, some times one or two, or four, and not infrequently 6. A couple of years back, 8 even 😁
Sounds to me like the Viet Taff need reminding about the Sound of Freedom!
Lllanuwchllyn - bottom left of Bala Lake, so an obvious visual feature...
No doubt some local troublemaking councillor in Pant-y-Lynr or somewhere is trying to make a name for himself.
Although they sometimes have a point. Mink are nasty little sods and start killing each other when frightened. So a red spot appeared on the AFCENT LL chart near one of our Gnat navex routes and we were ordered to avoid it. But Jones-the-mink got angrier and angrier as he was still getting overflights...
One the next issue of the chart, the red spot had been replotted - our careful avoidance of the previously plotted location had ensured that we'd all flown directly overhead the mink farm...
Lllanuwchllyn - bottom left of Bala Lake, so an obvious visual feature...
No doubt some local troublemaking councillor in Pant-y-Lynr or somewhere is trying to make a name for himself.
Although they sometimes have a point. Mink are nasty little sods and start killing each other when frightened. So a red spot appeared on the AFCENT LL chart near one of our Gnat navex routes and we were ordered to avoid it. But Jones-the-mink got angrier and angrier as he was still getting overflights...
One the next issue of the chart, the red spot had been replotted - our careful avoidance of the previously plotted location had ensured that we'd all flown directly overhead the mink farm...
Yes and they can even “feel it in their bones.” They ought to be grateful that these men and women are willing to take such risks to defend home and hearth. I feel it in my bones too, and at my age it’s one of the best feelings in my bones.
Reminds me off that Welsh farmer who painted "Sod off Biggles" (or something similar) on his shed roof, this making his farm a target for every aircraft within a 50 mile radius!
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BEagle (#12),
ISTR our JPs at Leeming had a mink farm red-circled somewhere in N.Yorks.. The trouble there, I understand, was that it was the breeding season, and the noise put the male mink "off their stroke", so to speak, apparently..
Anybody at Leeming 1967-72 confirm ?
ISTR our JPs at Leeming had a mink farm red-circled somewhere in N.Yorks.. The trouble there, I understand, was that it was the breeding season, and the noise put the male mink "off their stroke", so to speak, apparently..
Anybody at Leeming 1967-72 confirm ?
But, this is the problem with an increasingly shrinking RAF/FAA, there is less and less low flying around the country so joe-pleblic become less exposed to it, so actually then complain more when they do get surprised, as it becomes an increasing rare occurance.