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BliarOut

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72,863 posts

268 months

Friday 29th July 2005
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A tornado passed within 200M of my house last night :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:

In true young ones style "Phew, that was close!"

lazyitus

19,931 posts

295 months

Friday 29th July 2005
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I thought the RAF had a limit as to how low they could fly ?

>> Edited by lazyitus on Friday 29th July 13:03

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

284 months

Friday 29th July 2005
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That was no tornado....

That was a wasp.....

Sheepy

3,164 posts

278 months

Friday 29th July 2005
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lazyitus said:
I thought the RAF had a limit as to how low they could fly ?
Mrs S and I were in Nasby on Tuesday when one shot past vvveeerrrrryyy low almost directly overhead. I'd estimate his height at no more than 50-60ft*. He was low enough to make the tops of some trees he flew over whip about in his wake. Rather than "shocked" or "digusted" at this blatent disregard for minimum height rules, I was

* - I grew up in the midst of a low-flight training area near Lossiemouth, so have a good idea if what height he "should" have been at!

whoateallthepies

4,292 posts

263 months

Friday 29th July 2005
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I was reading in the paper that the Tornado had done something in the region of a couple of million pounds worth of improvements