OFF - Big nasty planes

[Ted Jackson jr. s2h2]

> From:          THE CIDER KING <pn013 at LAMP.AC.UK>

> About the comment that the B2 was the scariest aircraft someone had seen.
> When I was younger I used to live with the bottom of my garden backing
> onto a RAF camp, and they had one airshow there where they had a Vulcan
> bomber turn up and do some manoevres. One of these was (and I'm sure it was
> pretty illegal as was way too low for flying over a residential area) to stand
> on end and go straight up right over where I was standing in my garden. The
> noise was HUGE. A big warbird with a loud loud loud cry. It was an amazing
> sight.
> Incidentally the Red Arrows once shook the house so badly that part of the
> inside of our chimney clattered down into the lounge.

The B1 looks a bit like a Vulcan...