On Monday, June 9, 2014 1:07:30 PM UTC+1, F wrote:
On 09/06/2014 09:48 Dave Liquorice wrote:



Few years back three fighter jets had a dog fight over this area, now

that was something to watch and listen to, didn't go super-sonic but

flat out vertical climbs aren't quiet.



Not sure if it still does, but a Tornado used to show at the British

Grand Prix at Silverstone. The near supersonic level flight in towards

the track, then the almost instantaneous transition to vertical,

followed by it climbing at an amazing rate to almost out-of-sight was

awe inspiring and deafening. It was so loud that car alarms across the

car parks went off in unison!



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F

Typhoon demo at East Fortune Air Show had it standing still in the air, on its tail with the dancing diamonds in the afterburner glow, almost as noisy as the Vulcan....