(01-09-2012 04:55pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  This afternoon sat on the beach at Calshott Spit, Southampton Water I was treated to a fly past by a Lancaster bomber with a Spitfire tailing it - they made an approach about 100ft up right along the waterfront, banked away and then came back from over Bursledon this time with what looked like another 3 Hurricanes or Spitfires - I don't think I have seen so any people get out of their cars and look up to te skies, and certainly not make a spontaneous cheer like they did. I believe the Bournemouth Air Show was on today, somebody said that there should also have been a fly passed by a Vulcan bomber, they are an equally amazing sight and sound - I can remember as a kid being scared witless when we went to air days at RNAS Culdrose (my father was a pilot there) and the Vulcans and Vampires would come thundering out of the skies and do low level fly pasts. Having seen Concorde taking off and landing at Bahrain for 6 months in 1976 and it came right in very low on final approach over the ship, it didn't make even half the noise that a Vulcan made!