Mach loop

[miller1098]

After seeing The b of b thread I thought I'd post this.i travel this route on the road directly under this often its beautiful there is one spot" the bwlch " where you can park walk up the side of the hillside and stand above the planes as they fly at low level below you .It can be quite startling if you are cresting the bwlch as the fly towards you but impressive none the less.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3o-Eaixw6ec

 

[hard top]

That has got to be hi tech sheep herding at its best.........

 

[billz]

Must be an awsome sight

 

[Brian H]

we have low flying planes near us, they don't half sneak up on you when you are not expecting them, you literally s*1t yourself. Just few years after I passed my driving test I was driving on the road at the side of Loch Earn in an old 88" Landy, A low flying plane went passed and I thought the rear axle had dropped off!

 

[t-tony]

What we get in Lincoln is what happened today, there is a very low cloud base, and, obviously very clear skies just above because up there the Red Arrows are up there practising and it is a bit loud when they suddenly shoot overhead, but you can't see the buggers!

Tony.

 

[miller1098]

Did I mention one crashed in our hay field when it collided with a Cessna,less than 500 yds from me and my tractor.as I was watching it http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=55339

 

[t-tony]

SSHH EEEE III TTTT!

 

[miller1098]

It was like something you see in the movies,not good,didn't look at planes for a while after

 

[hard top]

I kind of like remeber that and considering that there were two fatalities, who the hell added this bit?
The Jaguar flew on for another 1,500 metres before striking the ground and exploding, killing 12 sheep and 2 cats.

 

[miller1098]

I know seems petty.it happened within a couple 100 yds of a housing estate and school,that back onto our fields,the wing of the Cessna landed in someone's garden.

 

[hard top]

Bloody hell...........

 

[t-tony]

And that's getting a bit "close to home", When something like a mid air crash happens the fall out can drop almost anywhere. Then it get's a bit scary.

Tony.

 

[miller1098]

It was a bit scary Sarah was nursing our daughter while sitting looking out of our patio window at the field I was working ,no mobile phone then,she panicked,as you would, surreal .

 

[tower]

They got one of our qfi s also in a Cessna a couple of years later in Cumbria,very similar senario, Jaguar limped home minus a drop tank. Irony was he had just beat cancer and was back flying.