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Current Location: My Room
Current Music: My head pounding

Well, that made my day! The Red Arrows, in formation, flew practically over my house! I knew they were doing a fly-past over the city for Armed Forces Day, but to actually see them... FANTASTIC! We're about 4 miles from the city, I wasn't at all sure they'd come this far out, never mind in the right direction for us to see them. The sound is deafening.

Sadly, mum missed it. They're so fast they were out of sight by the time she got outside. I had a much better vantage point at my bedroom window.

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lexxiescott

With how fast it sounds like they were moving, any glimpse of them would be special. :) I'll definitely check youtube when I get home. I'm at work waiting for coworkers to get their acts together.

Wow, the Concorde too. That's one I've only seen on TV. So very awesome. :)

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bk_forever

It was only once, from a distance, and a long time ago but yeah, it was great to have that chance. I jump to the window to watch the big Chinook helicopters whenever they pass near us as well (we have an ordnance depot not far from us). I like seeing aircraft in flight.

The only time it wasn't so much fun was when mum, dad and I were driving past an airfield where the runway was parallel to the road as a big jet was taking off. There was this roar behind us, mum looked back and said something like "Oh my God! Look at that! NO! DON'T LOOK!" I looked back and I swear it looked like this huge plane was about to come through the rear window, lol! It looked like it was low enough to reach out and touch, but then it was past us and gaining altitude. Poor mum was convinced it was going to land on us, never mind that it was taking off! Somehow dad managed to keep his eyes on the road.

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lexxiescott

Still so fun. *Grins* The coolest thing we get flying around here is the military Blackhawk helicopter once a year when the ROTC students are graduating and they get to go ride in it.

Wow, freaky. I've had planes buzz me like that when they were getting ready to land and it's breathtaking, if a little scary.

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bk_forever

Not so sure about the breathtaking part, but definitely scary - it looked huge and because we were moving at about 50mph, maybe a bit more, we stayed ahead of it for a few minutes with it gaining on us and finally going overhead. I don't think I'd really like to do that again, especially as we didn't know there was a runway just the other side of the hedge. When I think about it, I've had some pretty strange but interesting experiences!

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lexxiescott

I guess it depends on how close they actually get to you. *grins*

There's an airport down in San Francisco where the runway deadends into the ocean. I love flying into that airport because it's fun to watch first-timers going in there start worrying about the runway. Yeah, mean of me, but it's so cool to watch water and more water and then suddenly be on land. I dunno, maybe I'm just weird. *Grins*

From:

bk_forever

Quite possibly!

I've never flown, I like my feet firmly on the ground, thankyou very much! I'll watch planes but I've never really wanted to be in one. I don't like heights.

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lexxiescott

I'm not fond of take-off, but I love being up in the air and landings. *Grins* Then again, I've been traveling since I was a baby so I know every noise a plane is supposed to make. It helps.