Summer, the season of lazy afternoons, the distant buzz of a ...

[bellinghman]

... whole air force at once.

Yes, I can tell that the Duxford May Air Show is this coming weekend. We've just had a flight of ten warbirds over. And then another four a few minutes later.

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[epocalypse.livejournal.com]

That's annoying, here in Jed we routinely have half of NATO flying over on a daily basis. I even saw a F117 once but it took me a second to realise what it was.

Think yourself luck they don't choose your car as a target to practice strafing drill, happened to me a few times, bloody nerve wracking.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

BTDT - except in my case, it was an A-10 Warthog pilot who though a bunch of squaddies on exercise on Thetford training area would be fun to hunt. Happily, he lost us when we managed to duck into a forest.

As for the warbirds today, they were WWII fighters rather than anything more recent.

[uitlander]

The weekend I picked up my MA was a Duxford weekend. I spent most of the Sunday lying in Newnham gardens watching the planes as they banked overhead. Very mellow.