Funky arrows
Was visiting a friend of the wife's house one weekend about two years ago and we were having a chat in the living room when we heard a very loud plane noise followed by a booming noise, shaking half the windows in the house.

We usher out to the back garden, which happened to overlook pretty much all of Swansea bay from this hill on this sunny summer afternoon. To the left of us was Kilvey hill in the distance and to the right was Mumbles. Then ahead of us we notice the Red Arrows doing their display at the beach front, pretty much straight in front of us, but far enough away for us to appreciate all of what they were doing. Well impressive stuff we think, then we notice half of the group break left towards Kilvey hill. Then they gradually turn around and start heading towards us.

I notice this and point it out to the missus. These 4 planes are flying towards us directly, and as we were on a hill they are flying directly at us, altitude and all. We watch this for about 20 seconds and start wondering when the fuck they are going to pull up, while standing there gawping in awe at the approaching formation.

About 3 seconds before they would reach us they pulled up, so at what must have been between 50-100 feet directly above they soared away in glory. The windows shook in the house, my fucking fillings rattled and my ears bled, but by fuck it was awesome to watch :D
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Sun 8 Aug 2010, 18:59, 2 replies)

Same thing happened to us
We lived on the top of a hill in Brighton, right where they turned around for seafront displays. As my dad discovered while up a ladder painting the house, when one came over the roof about 20ft above him...

I was up a lamp-post at the time. I fell off.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 9 Aug 2010, 10:59, closed)

ooo
I saw that from the other side of the hill, I had a lovely photo lined up with the old telephoto, then the battery ran out :(
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 9 Aug 2010, 19:39, closed)