F-15E nearly killed my children!

[Brad]

Just another yuppie lefty making up a story to whinge about the military.

[malpaso]

Forgot to mention the Cornish beach side plane spotting this year included a low level transit by the Reds. That was loud and all the kids on the beach were happy to see them, the adults too.

Edited August 25, 2016 by malpaso

[spaddad]

Well I certainly won't be going to Cornwall any time soon.

Edited August 25, 2016 by spaddad

[Stosh65]

Bet she doesn't live there.

I miss the low flying traffic of my youth. South and Central Scotland is a wasteland for interesting flying these days.

[Nigel Bunker]

Bet she doesn't live there.

Yes she does - local resident.

[Raven Morpheus]

Judgemental, much?

No more judgemental than she thinks she's entitled. She and her husband pay taxes you know...

Edited August 25, 2016 by Raven Morpheus

[fewr9fkr9595]

Well I certainly won't be going to Cornwall any time soon, all that noise and terror and danger, the sooner Mr. Corbyn gets elected and gets rid of all those nasty armies and noisy planes and bullying battleships the better.

Don't forget to flush trident too! 😂😂😂

[spaddad]

I miss the low flying traffic of my youth. South and Central Scotland is a wasteland for interesting flying these days.

Ditto,

used to get Harriers from Wittering, Tornadoes from Cottesmore all the time, Typhoons when they were just starting to come on line and big Yankee choppers and Hercs flying low level night training sorties, with increased intensity sometimes prior to live ops. in North Africa or similar, you'd hear and see them banging up and down the valley then a few days or a week later there'd be something on the telly, even had a Chinook once came belting down the valley more or less level with the crest, pull a hard turn to port combined with a dive down to just over the phone lines and whang across the field about a hundred yards from my garden, impressive,now there's s*d all.

[Alan P]

Well I certainly won't be going to Cornwall any time soon, all that noise and terror and danger, the sooner Mr. Corbyn gets elected and gets rid of all those nasty armies and noisy planes and bullying battleships the better.

See, that there is politics, and it's banned from this site. Just gives you a chance to edit if you wish.

[Max Headroom]

My only contribution to this is to observe that the children don't look particularly traumatised.......

Trevor

[spaddad]

My only contribution to this is to observe that the children don't look particularly traumatised.......

Trevor

My only contribution to this is to observe that the children don't look particularly traumatised.......

Trevor

My only contribution to this is to observe that the children don't look particularly traumatised.......

Trevor

Which is strange considering the mother seems to be doing all she can to ensure they are traumatised.

Damn this mouse.

Edited August 25, 2016 by spaddad

[Max Headroom]

Thanks for the quote

Thanks for the quote

Thanks for the quote!

Trevor

[PhantomBigStu]

Ridicolous, fortunately it won't be taken seriously by USAFE officials.....used to spend my holidays in years gone by in Cornwall, would have loved to have been buzzed by a couple of Eagles, saw all the RAF types but never them...do remember though seeing a nimrod just of the coast at cliff top level not far from the shoreline, will never forget that sight

[spaddad]

Thanks for the quote

Thanks for the quote

Thanks for the quote!

Trevor

don't mention it

don't mention it

don't mention it

[Stosh65]

Ditto,

used to get Harriers from Wittering, Tornadoes from Cottesmore all the time, Typhoons when they were just starting to come on line and big Yankee choppers and Hercs flying low level night training sorties, with increased intensity sometimes prior to live ops. in North Africa or similar, you'd hear and see them banging up and down the valley then a few days or a week later there'd be something on the telly, even had a Chinook once came belting down the valley more or less level with the crest, pull a hard turn to port combined with a dive down to just over the phone lines and whang across the field about a hundred yards from my garden, impressive,now there's s*d all.

I also really miss the buccaneers up at lossie. Used to go on hols up there and it was always amazing to walk along the sea cliffs and see them fly past underneath you.

I remember watching a yellow sea king doing an exercise, winching a casualty off the local life boat. A bucc shot past lower than the helicopter and two crew nearly fell in turning to look at it.

[Dermo245]

In the immortal words of Fr Ted Crilly and Fr Dougal McGuire

"Down with this sort of thing!".

I stayed in Cornwall one weekend with her goodself (Padstow.......the place, that's not my other half's name).

Anyway, we had a great time and a lovely place but the flippin' seagulls outside our hotel window.....talk about a racket from early in the morning. Dear oh dear.

Nothing that wasn't cured though by a good feed of pints every night

Dermot

[charlie_c67]

My only contribution to this is to observe that the children don't look particularly traumatised.......

Trevor

The photoshopped the three of them from the previous whinge's photo. Thing is, if they "heard it coming" how did they NOT stop safely? Plenty of time cos those things aren't quiet...

Re: the sweets story, has anyone pointed out that perhaps she needs to teach her kids self control and not give them everything they demand?

[spaddad]

In the immortal words of Fr Ted Crilly and Fr Dougal McGuire

"Down with this sort of thing!".

I stayed in Cornwall one weekend with her goodself (Padstow.......the place, that's not my other half's name).

Anyway, we had a great time and a lovely place but the flippin' seagulls outside our hotel window.....talk about a racket from early in the morning. Dear oh dear.

Nothing that wasn't cured though by a good feed of pints every night

Dermot

You used to feed the gulls pints every night, bet that got expensive.

[Julien]

You used to feed the gulls pints every night, bet that got expensive.

Also probably why they kept coming back!

[Ossington 2]

Seldom have I taken as much delight in in "upticking" the comments box to that article!

[Latinbear]

I have just phoned the Low Flying Complaints Unit to register my displeasure that as a taxpayer we don't get any low flying in the part of Surrey that I live in.

The government spends billions of pounds of our money paying jet jockeys to go and have a good time whizzing around the country and they don't have the courtesy to come and fly low over my house. I'm not happy.

I'm now going to ring the Daily Mail

[PattheCat]

I have just phoned the Low Flying Complaints Unit to register my displeasure that as a taxpayer we don't get any low flying in the part of Surrey that I live in.

The government spends billions of pounds of our money paying jet jockeys to go and have a good time whizzing around the country and they don't have the courtesy to come and fly low over my house. I'm not happy.

I'm now going to ring the Daily Mail

And don't forget consumer association's and the one for equal opportunities. We've all got the same rights, to hear our daily Woooshh not being the least!

Edited August 26, 2016 by PattheCat

[noelh]

I suspect she may already be regretting her story, which in truth I think it is. Hard to believe the two boys never heard jets before let alone be scared of them. She is in danger of making them a target for other kids to make fun of. Not to mention the fact that nearly everyone who read the article now thinks she's a laughing stock.

But these types are always around. The people who buy houses near an airport and immediately start a campaign to close it. I was caught up in a situation a few years ago where a campaign was mounted to try and close an airfield. A whole series of complaints were made some of them laughable, apparently I caused a pregnant mare to give birth prematurely. What wasn't laughable was having two officials of the aviation authority read me my rights and then question me. It was a nasty business largely driven by a neighbour of the airfield owner in a dispute over land. At one point I among others found ourselves facing down a howling mob in what was supposed to be an information meeting. This is not the place to air the entire story but it was got really unpleasant and dangerous at times. All because of one or two troublemakers.

So I have little sympathy with people like her. That type always existed. I seem to remember a story of someone during the war complaining about all the noisy Typhoons taking off from the local airbase. You can also virtually guarantee that the likes of the Coastguard and Air Ambulance services get complaints. You have to wonder at the mentality.

[Meatbox8]

Pfft. Pushy overprotective well-off self-righteous entitled mother. Kids, even adults, fall off bikes all the time, they could just as easily have the same or similar accident without jets having done some grass cutting!!

Get fed up with these types complaining. They're the sort that move next door to a motor racing circuit that's been there for half a century and then complain it's noisy!! Pilots need to practice low level flying somewhere, especially considering they likely have to fly over residential areas in foreign countries! Flying over the deserted areas of the highlands isn't the same as flying over downtown Baghdad!

If I were the RAF complaints dept. I'd ignore it as they only have her account to go by, especially as the woman has no clue what it was she was buzzed by.

Yes, the sort of people you hear about who move to the countryside and then complain about cocks crowing, or church bells ringing, or tractors and all those wicked, horrid things.

Edited August 26, 2016 by Meatbox8

[Meatbox8]

Lol at the RAF getting the hump about not having "bombers" though. What are those things with fins that they keep dropping on ISIS then, pic'n mix dispensers?

Winged Pez Dispensers.