Crazy loud plane overhead tonight (tuesday)

[Mr. Ski]

I saw the plane too. It was indeed a CF-18. Apparently there are five of them in town at the moment on various maneuvers.

Slightly off topic: I attended the Abbotsford Air Show this summer for the first time and have to say it was unbelievably amazing. We had front row runway seating, and there's nothing quite like seeing CF-18's, and American F-15's, F-16's, F-117's, and B-1B's doing high speed, low level knife-edge passes a hundred feet in front of you. The Snowbirds were really good too.

It was quite inexpensive too: $25 general admission, and an extra $10 for the runway seating upgrade. Not bad for 7+ hours of entertainment between the static displays and air demonstrations.

Worth checking out if you're a plane buff and are in that part of the world: http://www.abbotsfordairshow.com/

[icarus]

Originally Posted by habernac

do you remember the name of that airbase, Icarus? My grandfather was stationed in Scotland as well, mear St Andrew's golf course, I think the base was called Leuchars or something like that.

No it is further northwest from St. Andrews. I don't know the name of the airbase [EDIT: it's called Kinloss], but the town is called Forres, right near Moray Firth. Roughly between Inverness and Aberdeen. Still, from up there they would fly missions to Norway, Germany, the Low Countries, even Italy and Northern Africa.