Story time kids.....
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RAF use the area I grew up in to practise low altitude attack vectors and such in Hurricanes.
The island rises really steeply out of the sea so you have a very abrupt change from sea level to ground (residencial) level. They go hurtling up the gap between the mainland and the island at crazy speeds then loop round the bay our town is built in and scream off in the other direction.
Our house was right on the edge of the cliff thatdecends into the sea and back then the pilots used to use this topographic detail to cheekily practise skimming over land at scarily low altitudes. It was like you could reach up and touch them, at times you culd feel the air being displaced around you as they boomed overhead.
Again my mum remembers running out of the house into the back garden screaming cos I was out there reaching up to try to touch one as it headed straight for the house about 50 meters above us then banked off to the left and away.
It was an awsome sight, but my mother truly believed in that instant that it was going to mow straight through us and kill her son.
woot, 'mon the RAF!