You know the MPs must be on holiday when...
 

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!

They will have read that Linton is closing and the aircraft moving to Valley - got to get those compensation claims in early!!

You could do low flying over the sea and someone would complain that the noise was scaring the fish...

Snowflakes in Wales in mid-Summer ... who would have thought that?

Mach loop
 

I'd hazard a guess that most kids would love it it. As for the elderly - here's one old codger who wished we had some of this around here - all we get is boring old Merlins!

Jet noise, the sound of freedom

Aged about 9, I was playing in my grandmother's garden in Llwyngwril, on the coast a mile or two south of Barmouth, when a Phantom cracked overhead at about 0 feet and a zillion knots*. I was certainly startled but WOW! First fast jet I remember seeing...

*Actually might have been a Sea Vixen, memory sometimes sees it as a twin boom; probably closer to 1000' and perhaps 250kts...

Anyone else thinking - for Pete's sake grow some, pity we're not at war etc etc :-(

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...:uhoh:

Say we've heard their plea and are moving the whole lot to Lincolnshire...................

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!

Yes nice pics indeed, but was that actual low flying training, or a series of photo ops?

Wycombe (#10),But a Su-24 might frighten him a bit more !
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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 ?

Indeed.

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.