Welcome bricklayer.
I live near 4 power stations and in the late 80s early 90s tornadoes and phantoms regularly made fast low attack runs at the cooling towers.One hot august day i was returning from work, when i pulled over in a lay-by not far from a row of cooling towers for a smoke(hated the smell in the car).When in the distance a dot grew bigger, two swirls of black smoke were thrown out of the engines and the whole aircraft pulled hard to the right,followed what seemed like minutes later, by what i can only describe as a wall of sound that literally took my breath away.Ive seen aircraft at shows pull turns torturing the air to make that tell tail scream.But this was no show ,if i was the enemy i would not have even seen him comming.Im sure the exercise was official and the maneuver well within the aircraft’s ability, but it must have hurt as the g-suit pushed the air out of the pilots body, that was the last F111 i ever saw in the air.
When we were kids we holidayed every year in mablethorpe excellent for bombing runs to dona nook and scarborough where I’m sure to this day lightnings used the old castle keep as a way point or marker.Unfortunatley we were there when they lost one and a pilot in the north bay a very sad day.
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