I know its American and all that but WOW

[fazersharp]

And they used to do this vertical rise before turning away and we'd see the sun light up the whole under carriage of the plane.

I was at Coningsby and they very kindly provide a tarmacked viewing area at the end of the runway and there was a chap there with a sanner radio and he said "watch that one, he has just asked permission for a Performance Departure" and that was what that was -a very shot run and then yanked straight up and then over at the top very high   

[darrsi]

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And they used to do this vertical rise before turning away and we'd see the sun light up the whole under carriage of the plane.

I was at Coningsby and they very kindly provide a tarmacked viewing area at the end of the runway and there was a chap there with a sanner radio and he said "watch that one, he has just asked permission for a Performance Departure" and that was what that was -a very shot run and then yanked straight up and then over at the top very high 
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I did wonder why they needed to go up the way that they did, obviously part showboating but also a show of force.

[nick crisp]

I was at Coningsby and they very kindly provide a tarmacked viewing area at the end of the runway and there was a chap there with a sanner radio and he said "watch that one, he has just asked permission for a Performance Departure" and that was what that was -a very shot run and then yanked straight up and then over at the top very high 

I did a week at Coningsby with the ATC when I were't lad. Battle of Britain Memorial Flight was based there at the time, and we got to clamber around in the Lancaster. Also got to muck in on aircraft washes on Phantoms. Me and a mate would stand by the runway in the evenings, watching Phantoms take off in pairs, on reheat. Those were bloody loud too. The Phantom was always my favourite fast jet. They just oozed sheer power from every rivet.

[lew600fazer]

I remember once when I lived in the UK (Wirral) I was always over in N Wales .I was on the A 470? and stopped for a piss, there is me with my John Thomas hanging out looking down at the cows in the field below, well  feck me two RAF jets screamed through below me. Okay so I had a dump at the same time. :'( 


On another occasion I was playing golf at Prestatyn golf club. I was playing out of my socks. I  knew for sure I had won the competition as I was 18'' from the hole and putting for a birdie. A lad standing next to green asked me what I was going to card if I made the putt, I said 73 gross and as I was a 10 handicapper game over. As I swung the putter forward two RAF jets flew right overhead and went into a vertical climb right above me. I knocked the fecking ball about 6 feet past the hole and 3 putted it after that, lost the comp by 1 shot, fecking RAF twats. I have never forgiven them for that.

[Graham53]

I live near north Weald airfield , not really any jets but regularly get  a spitfire or a mustang or hurricane flying over and they do dislplays over the gunpowder mills which we can watch from the front of the house.
Jets are cool but nothing beats the sound of a spitfire Rolls Royce merlin engine and supercharger giving it the beans