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  1. 28-08-2006, 01:39 PM #17
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    There the ones who abducted me last sunday night! They stripped me naked and did all sorts of experements on me. I then woke up outside the back door of my local!!
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  2. 28-08-2006, 01:45 PM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by shelley bda
    Cool!!!!!

    Training excercise maybe?

    One of Jon's friends lives in Llangedwyn, she lives up a Mountain overlooking the valley where the RAF practise their flying skills, she says it's amazing to watch and listen to the noise.
    It's brilliant when you are up a mountain and they are flying through the valley bellow you
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    could well have been like the ones in the pic above, couldnt swear by it now though
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    I'm not sure if they do it in this country, but certainly in America if a pilot dies in service, there'll be a flypast at the funeral, low and slow, and one ship will climb steeply out of the formation to represent the missing pilot...

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    Yea like that 'missing man formation' rubbish the American's like so much. Usually a four-ship formation, and the aircraft middle-port from the leader pulls up.
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    it is likely to be a US flyby. A fair few of their boys have died out in Iraq

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    Quote Originally Posted by autopilot
    It's brilliant when you are up a mountain and they are flying through the valley bellow you
    That happened to me a few years back when hill walking near Glen Etive. Two Tornado GR1's went down the valley below us. Didn't hear them coming until the last minute.
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    I had it aswell, We were staying in some campsite overlooking keswick in the lake district when a Tornado came right over our heads following the contour of the mountain, My old dog decided to try and chase it down the hill, "stupid mutt!".
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    It could be the RAF practising patterns and response times due to it all kicking off big time with the Osama lot.
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