[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Yah know ...back in the 70's while sitting in my room at night ( at Amberley Air Base ...had a room on the top floor of the Airman's Barracks ) ...I would often watch F111's ' screaming ' down the runway ...full afterburners on, and I'd watch them disappear into the night ...it was quite a sight to watch at times.
This would often happen several nights of the week, each week and so on.
It got so ' ho- hum ' after a while....it was just ' another ' Jet flying out to do some random mock attack against an unsuspecting target......generally a Power Station or Dam....and other one's you were never told about.

But, one can never under estimate the ' thrill ' of being there ...and being amongst the ' thunderous roar' as they scream only several hundred meters above your head.....it goes right through you.....it is Awesome.

I remember one time ...us boys had finished up a days work .....we had just started walking back to the hanger, when all of a sudden ...without warning ( you never hear them approaching ) especially if you are looking or walking in the opposite direction...a massive screech and thunderous shaking was right on top of us.....I can recall ' ducking ' as it happened.

Right above us ...at no higher than 200 feet AGL ( above ground level ) ...wings fully swept back ....after burners on .....an F111 roars over our heads and sneaks behind a hill at 400kts ... roughly 450mph.

There's just something about the 'thrill ' of being there.
Avalon Air Show .....missed it ..... maybe next year.

Flash ..!!