Nasty, noisy jets
 

Oh, give me strength.

Penzance mother hits out at RAF claiming low-flying aircraft endangered her distressed children | West Briton

Not a lot of support in the comments.

This was also shown on "RAF Banter and Bo***ks" page on Facebook. The comments on the West Briton site are restrained in comparison with the remarks made by a few old sweats on facebook!

Apparently she is a well-known local moaner.

Not wishing to be judgemental but her youngest looks as if a good scare is exactly what he needs..........................

No doubt telling her that they were probably training to defend her freedom would not go down too well ;)

I heard those as they made several passes but looked in vain to see them. I presumed that they were a Hawk of two from Culdrose.

There are a couple of F-15's mentioned in the replies operating in the area, she is also noted as a serial complainer.
Perhaps if they now have her address from her complaint, frequent overflights of her residence could be arranged to acclimatise her children to the noise of fast jets.

She needs to teach her sprogs the cycling equivalent of, 'Aviate, Navigate, Communicate'. Having said that, it would remove her particular line from the gene pool if she doesn't. :E

The Kernow chip-wrapper in question must have a very lazy bunch of reporters - that photo of Green Party activist Mrs Thompson and her children was actually taken outside the local Co-op Penzance parents question ethics of product placing in local Co-operative shops | The Cornishman and crudely photoshopped onto a background library photo...

Note the disembodied hand on the younger child's shoulder :uhoh:

Great..another NIMBY...Just what's needed..

Aah, Jet Noise, the sound of Freedom

Loved this bit - insert your own punchline...

I am surprised the word 'compensation' was not mentioned.

Well, if not affiliated to the RAF, let's hope they were not Russian

As I've pointed out to the kids more than once , if you can hear the jet it must be one of ours - if it was attacking you'd already be dead before you got chance to hear it!

I rather suspect that she's one of the tree hugging lentil eating sandal wearing brigade. I do know that she's a Green Party member.

She is, if you type her name and location, she tree hugs on a myriad of issues, all rather banal.

So buy her a tree

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Can't wait to hear whinge about the "stealth seagull" travelling at warp speed to scare her precious little creations with a low flypass.

In that part of Cornwall, the seagulls pack quite a punch! (especially if they get even the slightest wiff of yer pastie :)).

Their targetting and weapons delivery is pretty good aswell.

Send 'em here! My four year old loves noisy planes although it causes consternation for the wife when he stand in the street bawling "Come on you Fokker!"

Very much looking foward to her rant then.

Judging by her rants and previous campaign I can only imagine the whole family would have dropped dead if they had witnessed the 'chocolate bomber' of Berlin airlift fame.

Apparently she is a well-known local moaner.

I believe that this is frequently a prelude to having children.

Jack

Nothing new. RAF were plagued by low-flying and noise complaints as far back as 1951. My first experience of low flying noise complaints against the RAF was in Rhodesia.
In 1951 I was at 5 FTS, RAF Thornhill, S. Rhodesia and attach a photo of "Boggies Clock" decorated for Coronation Day 1953 in Main Street in the centre of Gwelo (now Gweru) the nearest town to RAF THornhill.
Mrs Jean Boggie lived in Gwelo for many years and was one of the town's most colourful characters. Her husband was a pioneer, and a member of the first Legislative Council. After his death in 1928, she erected this memorial clock tower, a familiar landmark to all who passed through the town. There was also a memorial panel inserted in the tower, commemorating the women, children and cattle and donkeys of the pioneers.
Mrs. Boggie was well known for her protests against the noise created by training aircraft from RAF Thornhill which flew over her farm. The noise, she claimed, prevented her hens from laying and her cows from being content! She was always remonstrating with the authorities and often made her views known through letters to the press. RAF Airmen driving past the clock, in a bus for example, were in the habit of making their feelings known about her protests by blowing a raspberry - but she still protested.
One of the first things one learnt on arrival at 5 FTS was that it was de rigueur to blow the raspberry as one passed the clock!


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Its still there, but Livingstone Avenue is now Robert Mugabe Avenue.


..and of course there was this lady who tried it on a couple of years ago and lost:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...nd/8408090.stm

Our one week old grand daughter was "bombed" by a stealth seagull recently, fair square on the forehead. Mum (a pilot) got a bit cranky, but I told her to consider it a christening and acceptance into the world of aviation.

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Pi55 off Biggles - That didn't work either :D

I heard jet noise on the day in question whilst I was in Truro but did not actually see the F-15s though local aviation enthusiasts reported their presence there, Penzance area and later over Bodmin Moor. Usual reaction I hear is to say MORE as we get relatively little in the far southwest these days. The jet noise was unobtrusive and I thought might well be Hawks from Culdrose.

Culdrose is on summer leave for the whole of August with relatively little flying taking place.

Brize A400 Atlas aircraft have been making welcome visits most days this week to Newquay for overshoots and a C-17 on one day this week. Welcome !!

Most whiners have lived down here for a short time and are not typical of the population at large

They were happy enough when the military lifted them out of their drifting beach toys and stopped them from drowning

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What a stupid stupid woman. For God's Sake.........man up. Words - almost - fail me.

She probably still has nightmares about the Childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Or Chucky. Having said that, Chucky was a bit spooky.........

Damn you tarantonight, I just got over my Chitty Chitty Bang Bang phobia :p

We had a regular complainer on one base. She would complain that the crews were flying so they could look into her bathroom window while she was taking a bath. Fixed-wing, not rotary!!!

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Fast jet flying program for Salt Ash Air Weapons Range

I have a serious complaint concerning the amount of low flying in the Quantock hills. There simply isn't enough. I was entertained a few weeks back by a brace of F-15's however there has been precious little since then. Come on chaps, you must try harder as our US chums are shouldering the burden. Can you please send over some Typhoons at Mach 0.9999 or at the very least, a Hercules with the ramp down. If the situation does not improve then I will submit a stiff letter to the parish magazine.

Thanks in advance.


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Thanks for that link, Hempy.
Such eloquence.
Is he running for a seat in parliament?

Mind you, when the occasional Connie or Stratocruiser would come over our place, rattling the crockery and
shaking the windows, mother wold have her nose out of joint, claiming it was putting the chooks off the lay.
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:ok:What B Fraser said, above. Nasty noisy jets please feel free to visit 52°43’42” W002°59’48” as fast and low as possible.

(and yes, I know we're in Shawbury's DUA in LFA 9, but Ops are on 376.67 and I'm sure they'd agree to a quick practice FRA :ok: ).

Southern Vendee - this week - AlphaJets, Rafale and several light aircraft - great

I forgot to mention that the au pair often sunbathes topless in my garden. Grid reference on request.

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I did my PPL at Lands End not far from where this woman and her little darlings live. One day on return from 45 minutes circuit bashing with my instructor we were met with the news that the club had received a complaint from a lady who had been sunbathing in her underwear and the same aircraft had flown directly over her garden several times.

As I said to my instructor, "proves that my circuit flying is getting pretty accurate!"

Oh, and we never saw the woman :( I wonder if it was her.

Lady craves attention. Don't give it.

Close thread or don't post in it.

You just did, TOFO ;)