Re: Low level loss of concentration
they used such installations as "target practice" - flying direct at you
Around Suffolk the USAF used to use the old BT Yellow vans as targets for dummy strafing runs. You could be sitting eating your sandwich when an F16 shot past making the world shake.
Best story I heard was from a friend who worked at a transmitter station, where the local RAF pilots used to use the masts as markers. Every so often he'd phone up the base to complain, and be fobbed off. One day he called to report a plane flying dangerously close, and was told "don't worry sir, our pilots wouldn't do anything like that, they just look closer than they are.". He took great pleasure in replying that this pilot was indeed too close, and he had a foot of Phantom wingtip to prove it, sliced off on a guy wire...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
