Saw a lancaster flyover at the steam fair the other day. That was impressive, seemed so slow compared with todays stuff, its a miracle it stays in the air!
Yours was a proper typhoon or one of the more modern versions? Wonderful things.
We are very lucky here - Shuttleworth is close and the elderly aircraft seem to use the farm for navigation. Very often have Spitfires low overhead (you really can tell them from the sound), and once a blue painted Shackleton which was barely moving. Aerobatic practice for the little modern things is over an adjoining field and that's fun to watch too.
We were on the beach at Crosby looking at Anthony Gormley's naked impressions of himself today when the red Arrows flew over. I assume that was part of the Southport show. Lots of WW2 stuff yesterday over the 'Pool.
once saw a Lightning 'stand on it's tail' at RAF Binbrook and disappear from sight straight up. The commentator said some time later that the aircraft had reached 100,000 feet.
I remember doing a bit of joinery in an ops room at an RAF base in Devon in '87 (or thereabouts), and some officer chappie telling me they still used Lightnings, (much to my surprise, as they were well old even then), because they were still the only plane the RAF had which could vertically climb and intercept the Russian spy planes, which were still intruding in those days.