I miss the planes a bit, cornwall is wall to wall helicopters.
When I was a kid, the a10 tankbusters used our school chimney as a marker. Double maths is a joy when the whole room is shaking and the teacher starts to panic.
in chepstow I worked on a garden that overlooked the wye, the troops would come down the m4 and turn right for the brecons. We would see whole flights of hurcules going by, belly up round the bends in the river. Chinooks were better, cause you could hear them coming from miles away.