There's been a lot of noise this week, not traffic, motorcycles or tractors but the noise created by jet engines. A week ago it was the high flying tankers from RAF Mildenhall but this week it's been the USAF F15s from the Liberty Wing based at RAF Lakenheath.
The Boss and I love watching them corkscrewing and racing around the sky putting on a major air display, sometimes they must be defying gravity and the laws of flight with their use of sheer engine power. The noise certainly rattles the windowpanes, water butts and sometimes your ribs but the two terriers seem absolutely unperturbed by it, they don't even stir if they are outside. Very occasionally we'll see three or four come over really low and that is a truly spectacular sight, never mind the noise.
Here's an F15 from one of the squadrons at RAF Lakenheath wringing a little moisture out of the atomsphere as it starts to pull up to gain height for the next round. They are very much part of the West Norfolk landscape and skycap but we just wish that they would just come down a little lower.
Fearsome power.
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ReplyDeleteFor an old aircraft they are just awesome to see. Night flying is good when you get the two engines afterburners kick-in like giant Bunsen burners. WE've had Osprey and Chinook fly-bys and a single Chinook right over the house at couple of hundred feet in the last week along with an F35 the next day. Exciting stuff. Stay safe, John