Sounds exciting, Ken, but they were asking for trouble.
Chris
On 15 Jul 2014, at 21:04, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We were in an old mill in Killin our first full day in Scotland when I heard
>> a bone-shaking roar and looked out a window just in time to see the
>> hindquarters of what I believe was a Tornado streaking off in the distance.
>> The pilot was pushing Wing Commander Barker’s 500 ft. limit.
>
> We were fishing on a lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan many
> years ago when two fighers were doing a "below the radar" run at
> whatever speed it is where a vapor cone forms around the aircraft and
> some extra noise is produced. They dropped down to maybe 10-20 foot
> off the deck and had quite a spray trail rise up off the water.
>
> We happened to see them coming, but no noise until well after we were
> staring into the red glow of the exhaust and then it was deafening.
> Almost fell out of our boat.
>
> That was in the day when they used to "attack" each other between the
> Sawyer and Kincheloe/Kinross bases. These two were sneaking their way
> towards Sawyer.
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