Many moons ago when i was a younger lad in this mans Airfarce and I was stationed at RAF Bruggen on a couple of Jaguar Squadrons, I was visiting my old Mum who lives on the outskirts of Carlisle and there is an old army camp close to the village that has long since seen all the buildings go, but being overgrown it is a pleasant place to walk, nice and peaceful….. then out of the blue Ssssssssssssssss whhhhoooooshhh rooooooooaaaaaaarrrrr a pair of Jags from 54 sqn roared over my head at low level banking to miss the village on their run in towards Spadeadam, feck me they were low, and feck me they were disturbing my holiday, so on the blower i went… Hello Mr TonyT here, your damn jets are low flying over our village…… ohh sorry sir, do you by chance know what they looked like, yes i replies, they were 54 Sqn Jags, one T bird and one GR1….. ohh he replies, you know your jets, yes I replies 😮 well we will see what we can do came the response :p
Incidentally as a wee TonyT of about 6 years old in height and age, we used to see, hear and feel through the ground the running of the blue streak rocket motors up on the fells at Spadadam and watch the smoke cloud rising, when in the playground of my infants school.
Please forgive me if I have missed the point here, but really, what hope is there when members of our own armed forces are complaining about low flying aircraft. Is it not an essential skill of the Royal Air Force?
If I’ve missed the point of your post then let me know and I will gladly delete it but really….
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