Felt like a schoolboy again today...

[Influenza]

...and it didnt have anything to do with a woman.

It is the Sunderland airshow this week but i suffer from rare panic attacks and cant handle the crowds very well.

I was walking my dog on the field next to the airport museum we have up here ( formely RAF Usworth ) when i heard the awesome sound that is the Merlin engine in the distance , loooked up and one of the battle of britain memorial flight Hurricanes was flying at about 1000ft above me , it circled about 5 or 6 times around the what was formely the airfield.

I grew up next to the airfield when it was still in use and im also a big history buff especially when it comes to planes , it was the 1st time ive heard a merlin engine in person and it was great to see a part of our history flying gracefully above me.

Hopefully they do the same with the Lancaster and Spitfire that are here tommorow.

 

[old.Tohtori]

WAs talking about sunderland show and how i'd love to get my arse to the UK to catch that one among others.

You bastard

Oh and while i'm at it, talk to Ch3tan, he feels like a little schoolboy every friday.

Or was it IS...

 

[Edmond]

I live about 2 miles from Farnborough, and spent yesterday afternoon watching the Red Arrows do thier thing form my bedroom window

The Lancaster and the 4 spitfires have been doing fly-by's for the last few days too

Its great

 

[Jupitus]

Same distance away here, Ed, but don't get a great view of most of it, although the Red Arrows did fly right over my roof in one of the loop rounds for their performance - MrsJ and the kids are off down there today though

 

[Ezteq]

got the Bournemouth airshow in a month or so, hopefully this year I shall actually be able to go out and see some of it lol!



...tbh I quite feel like a school boy too atm ^^

 

[Fafnir]

got the Bournemouth airshow in a month or so, hopefully this year I shall actually be able to go out and see some of it lol!



...tbh I quite feel like a school boy too atm ^^

Will you be able to see anything for the other grownups in the way?

 

[Ezteq]

oi sod off lol i'm 5 foot, I'm not exactly yoda!

and I generally have a natural habit of heading for higher ground which I need now I don't have anyone to pick me up so I can see anymore

 

[soze]

I will always remember getting soaked by a Harrier Jump Jet hovering near the pier at the Clacton Air Show. It was a while ago now though as i don't think the Jump Jets do the shows any more. I also love a trip to Duxford felling the weird surface of the blackbird was so exciting the first time.

 

[Fafnir]

oi sod off lol i'm 5 foot, I'm not exactly yoda!

and I generally have a natural habit of heading for higher ground which I need now I don't have anyone to pick me up so I can see anymore

Well perhaps you could use that sod, to lift you up a bit higher

 

[Job]

brilliant, finishing the coast2coast there tomorrow, gonna get pissed and watch the planes, saw two biplanes flying over the pennines today.

 

[Billargh]

WAs talking about sunderland show and how i'd love to get my arse to the UK to catch that one among others.

You bastard

Oh and while i'm at it, talk to Ch3tan, he feels like a little schoolboy every friday.

Or was it IS...

I live about 3 miles away from the airshow also, ner ner ner

 

[Madmaxx]

I went to my cousins place in farnborough for a day out yesterday, and sitting in a bar next to the airshow, when they fly over the top of you to land was awesome, the huge AirBus thing made a shadow like an independence day scene lol

 

[Jupitus]

Mrs J called me as the Red Arows were taking off, so I got myself out into the garden.... I could hear them getting closer until they appeared over the tops of houses around ours in full diamond formation, banking left to straight over the very top of my house towards Farnborough - it was spectacular!!!

 

[Corran]

I live about 2 miles from Farnborough, and spent yesterday afternoon watching the Red Arrows do thier thing form my bedroom window

The Lancaster and the 4 spitfires have been doing fly-by's for the last few days too

Its great

Lucky bastard! I miss Farnborough

Spent a few years down there and was about 0.3miles from the airport. Miss being there for the airshows

Mind you, I dont advice being in a car with a couple advice whilst taking a wrong turn on way back from Aldershot, end up heading along the side of a miltary base and deciding to do a U-turn at one the entrances. Ended up with 3 guards weapons pointed at the car. :lol:

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Always was lucky with airshows. Used to leave 10miles from Southend and had all the aircraft flying right over our garden, after that was about 25miles away and still saw alot of the show, but now in middle of nowhere near glasgow and all I ever see is the Rescue helecopters running training missions, though did get a medical helicopter land 50metres away in the grounds out the back a couple month ago