Briar King, on 12 February 2013 - 11:05 PM, said:
Wow my house was just fucking shaking! I heard a helicopter coming for a few minutes so I went outside to smoke a cig and what do I wind up seeing? Not 1,2, or 3 copters but fucking 5! 5 attack copters flying no more then 200ft above the treetops, I could see all the fucking guns on them. That was really cool to see that flying formation that low, my kids were going batshit crazy seeing that. They loved it. lol
Reminds me of the evening of May 4th 1995.
I was mowing my Grandmothers lawn and I suddenly heard a loud noise. Thinking it was the lawnmower acting up again I started playing with the throttle to see if it stopped, it didn't help so I cut the throttle and I still heard the noise which was even growing louder.
When I looked up to see where it was coming from, a B-17G (the Sally-B which is based at Duxford) came thundering over, think it was flying on a height of somewhere in between 500 - 1000 meters.
Those were the days, when I was a teenager loads of Warbirds would fly over my house from time to time. Mustangs, Dakotas, B-25's and Spitfires.
It all stopped when the Americans left the airbase of Soesterberg and the airbase was closed down some years later.
Sometimes a Dakota still flies over.