Those daring young men under the flying machines!
hehe noice one David - it reminds me of the scene from 'waynes world' when they lay on the bonnet of the car looking at the summery starry sky (while wayne whistles the theme from the original star trek series - amazing whistler! and it was at the end of the runway of the local airport lol)
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Originally Posted by plasmodium
I got to stand about 5 metres off the side of the main runway at RAAF Scherger last year as a F-111 took off.... very cool, probably the cause of my hearing deficit now!
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My best experience of this type was at the 1990 farnborough air show in the UK, when 3 (or was it 5? cant remember now - got the pics somewhere) sea harrier jump jets put on a show for the crowd. They hovered tightly together less than a 100 mtrs away, just metres off the ground, for what seemed an eternity, but maybe was at least 5 - 10 minutes? doing bows to each other and the crowd, and just plane showing off with little dance routines. At the end of the show they just pointed their noses up and pppwoiwwww, shot off like ufo's straight up into the wild blue yonder.
The sound was unfreakin believable (saw lots of jets that day - nothing came close to that except the mig-29 maybe) the resonation and harmonics that built up was awesome - was like having you insides in a sonic blender, talk about thunder! it actually brought tears to my eyes, not sure why (not from pain), but very overwhelming and emotionally impressive effect.
Only other sonic thing that came even close I have experienced, would be at the 2000 BDO in adders - watching the 'Chemical Brother's' do their thing
