scotia wrote:Access was easy - there was a road across the end of the runway. Then a (German) tourist parked his vehicle on the road to get a good photo of a plane landing over the top of his car. And the spoilsports closed the road and erected a fence.
Can't say we miss the C17s (and their prop driven C15 predecessors) that we used to have based at our local RAF base at Lyneham. Damn things would come over at treetop height in groups of eight or ten (or more), and the cows would panic and small children would scream, and I'd be sitting there wondering how much I could screw the ministry for if they shook our stone tiled roof to pieces?
But the sad day finally came when they were all moved to somewhere else, and after that it was the other locals' turn to complain four times a day about the noise. Not before they'd claimed a few casualties, though. Bored squaddies had started playing a very special game of chicken, in which they would stand under the planes as they came in at low altitude.
This one didn't end so well. Squaddie had forgotten that Hercules often fly with their tail ramps down.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/raf- ... 27162.html .
Except when carrying plutonium, perhaps?
BJ