We live in the middle of the Salisbury Plain, where the British Army does
tons of training.
Tanks, artillery firing, you name it — it all goes on literally all around us. Today
was a real treat. A
C-130 Hercules flew low over the house doing parachute drops. The picture
above shows one coming across right outside my office door.
That’s the plane passing right above. Pretty low!
This is again outside my office door, when it made another pass.
Another shot of it going right over head.
This is it heading past the house and over to the drop zone. Look close below the tail — see how the
rear hatch is open?
See the small dot below the plane? Pretty sure that’s one of the parachute
jumpers!
Before departing, the plane made two more passes, these ones very sharply
over our front garden.
By the way, I don’t mind the planes going overhead. I grew up in the shadow of the
Marine Corps Air Station
Tustin in Orange County, which always sent CH-53 and CH-47 helicopters over
us. Adds a little excitement to the day.
