In article , Jethro_uk
scribeth thus
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:44:43 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

On 09/06/2014 09:48, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On 9 Jun 2014 07:03:29 GMT, Huge wrote:

we get rather spoiled.

Not sure I'd like that much noise. We get fast jets through here close
enough to see the pilots at times. They are loud but up, past and gone
in less than a minuet. Chinooks just make the windows rattle, Black
Hawks nervous, having no real requirement to be streamlined, they just
look like the killing machines they are.

I was in a friends back garden a couple of years back and a pair of
Apache gunships flew over...

I really would not want to be anywhere near those when they are doing
what they are designed for. Not only do they look evil, they well and
truly sound it as well! I can quite understand why your average Afghani
insurgent would loathe them so much.

Much like the copper chopper here then. They frequently buzz around here
at all hours with some sort of floodlight on. It's quite intimidating,
and enough to make small children woken up by them cry.

Then we read their twitter feed, usually telling us they couldn't find
the car/person/whatever they were looking for.


I remember one night there're radio Broke thru on my scanner receiver
years ago they were trying to identify someone on the ground and had a
few bobbies chasing this suspect with a coupe of police dogs. They just
picked the part of Cambridge thats full of doggie lovers and the
resulting mess on the radio was as good as what the keystone cops could
have got up to;!.

It was shall we say very difficult for the chopper observers to tell who
was the police and who was Joe public out with his dog....

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Tony Sayer