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Originally Posted by Jayems
When i lived in england, i used to sit and watch the RAF fighter jets take off and do manouvers... i love fighter jets.
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This is off topic, but what you said reminded me of a couple years ago when my family went to my grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary in Scotland near the airbase where my grandfather was stationed during WWII as a Canadian bomber pilot on loan to the RAF. There is still an RAF air force base there, and at the pub a few of the local fly boys got talking to my grandfather about pilot stuff. It was really cool to see the interest and genuine admiration these British pilots had for an old WWII bomber (they were probably shocked to meet a survivor, since most bomber pilots lasted only a few missions let alone the whole war), and as a result I have a lot of respect for them. They were mostly middle-aged family men who each at some point had trained at Goose Bay or Cold Lake. This has nothing to do with the topic, but yeah... just wanted to share that.