Nasty noisy jets in Sydney this morning.
Three in fact - Hawks overflying Govt House parade... boy is there with the cadets.
Outstanding.
Checked the RAAF page and at the bottom of the announcement about the flypast is this:

Noise management and environment impact are vital considerations in the planning and conduct of military flying. Air Force appreciates the support it receives from the Sydney community during this flying activity.

We live in a sad time when air forces have to acknowledge noise management and environment impact.

Why didn't you come back via the North Shore, lads?!
I was waiting!

Funny, the report seems to have disappeared from on line after just three days

The paper in question has released another article:

This Penzance woman complained that low flying jets scared her children - and social media exploded | West Briton

" ................. they flew so low we could see the underside of them .........!"

I must have good eyes, I can see the "underside" of the moon.

Get a life.

Being a sixties generation Air Forcer, I was born at the outset of WW II - I can remember running outside when flights of Spitfires would come over our house at chimney height. We lived near Guildford and my elder brother explained they were trying to get between enemy bombers and home. The sound of all those Merlins always excited me - I loved them.

One of the best things I remember as a child when visiting my uncle were the pilots of the nearby training base that would buzz us as we jumped up and down on the roof of his house. We even managed to draw the attention of one F-104 Strarfighter - the flypast was b@@@dy friggen awesome!!!!

My first experience of fast jets was at Farnborough, circa 1963, aged 9. Yes, my ears hurt, I spun round & fell over trying to keep up with the flypasts - it was great, a fantastic experience.

Don't suppose her sons will be interested in a career in the forces then? She needs to get some more action in her life!!!!!


Apologies for lowering the tone!

How odd, the second story in the West Briton, which BEagle provided a link to, has also disappeared...

-RP

Had a couple of jets ripping at the edge of the sound barrier over Norwich yesterday. Fantastic watching the fast jets trying to manoeuvre to get a firing solution. One went knife edge at probably thirty thousand feet and appeared to plummet to less than half that height while pulling tighter and tighter to get nose on to the higher flying companion, who maintained altitude while turning not so tightly. Don't know whether that was the plan, but it made for fascinating viewing. The best days are when there are some decent cumulus clouds about and the jets are dogfighting around the cloud heads. Fortyfive minutes of the sound of freedom before they have to return to base for tea and bickies and a top up.

Spent many an hour on towline six, as it was then called, a north-south refuelling racetrack pattern just off the Norfolk/Suffolk coast. In those days it was mainly Coltishall and Wattisham Lightnings, so their visits to the end of our hoses between practice intercepts were frequent, as you can imagine. Delayed the pilots' intake of tea and bickies for a while, anyway.

It appears the West Briton news cannot cope with all the negative inputs and have taken the article down.

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You guys would enjoy living where I do...smack in the middle of the fast jets playground!

MIGs, F15s, F16s and a few others...all screaming around, sometimes for 10 or more hours on most days.

They seem to have only one rule...don't hit the ground! Everything else is open slather!

I think the good Mrs. Thompson would have shown her "undersides" at Scampton today, when the Typhoon displayed at around 14.00. Quite superb, and free!

Mind you, the Spitfire was better about an hour earlier.;)

Four Hog drivers grounded after buzzing Bank of America stadium...

Moody AFB: Pilots involved in low-altitude flyover restricted from flight duties - Story | WJZY

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My parents told me that they had a low flying aircraft take their chimney pot off. But it was a Handley Page Heracles and they did live next to Croydon Airport.

Come on guys, isn´t it time we just ignored these pillocks instead of giving them the attention they seek?:rolleyes:

That's no way to treat the RAF....

Then there is this...humm.. when I was in Somalia a lot of very bad people drove around in trucks..are the truaumatized frozen in panic everytime someone drives by in an SUV?
Also aside transit to the airport the Airshow takes place over Lake Ontario.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...auma-1.3747293

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Come on guys, isn´t it time we just ignored these pillocks instead of giving them the attention they seek?:rolleyes:


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