Hi,
 
If any of you ever read "Chuck Amuck" by Chuck Jones (Bugs, Daffy, RoadR, etc), you will get the biggest kick out of his talk about rockets and jet engines. You do know that he said that WB cartoons invented those and they never got credit for it!

One summer day in the mid 90's a bunch of us took acid and as it came on, regretted that we didn't plan any fun activities beforehand. Someone came up with the idea of heading out to the airport to watch planes land. So we stopped on a road right near the end of the runway where planes passed directly overhead as they took off. I'm talking just a few feet above us. Boy that was overwhelming beyond belief in the chemically enhanced state we were in. Amazing things.

A popular tourist activity on the island of St. Maartin, which has a beach at the foot of the runway. The runway is essentially at sea level, and relatively short, so the planes come in low and slow, barely clearing the fence.

Skiathos is much the same and there's a bar right at the end of the runway - very civilised way to tell if your plane has landed yet.....
 
I have one somewhere where there was a lorry driving along the road that you can see here directly underneath the plane as it crossed. To this day I still don't can't believe that I saw how close that was.
 
 

 

bitflipper
A popular tourist activity on the island of St. Maartin, which has a beach at the foot of the runway. The runway is essentially at sea level, and relatively short, so the planes come in low and slow, barely clearing the fence.

Something about that second video is nicer than the one on top... 

Maybe I was just being cheeky? 
 

craigb
Maybe I was just being cheeky? 
 

A whole lot of cheeky!!

Guess what the dog had in its mouth?
 

BobF
Guess what the dog had in its mouth?
 

Becan.
 
(Duh, like that was a tough one Bob!)