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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KenM" data-source="post: 3212512" data-attributes="member: 57880">Lets put it this way....having our backs to the planes, we didn't hear them coming!...until they were directly over head!..followed by the roar, hence we hit the deck out of sheer fright!, it seemed like they were probably no more than 30' up! It was late May '75, when my hearing was far more acute than it is now, and I will never forget the noise! Irrespective of what they can, and can't do...on the day, I left a small part of me on that Sutherland floe!I will always remember the three planes were flying in very close formation in a straight line, following the contour of the floe exactly, until disappearing some many miles away to the West, over the higher ground as if they were  laser guided. A truly amazing spectacle, regarding the aircraft ID, they were not English Electric P1 Lightnings, and they looked like Harriers! I believe at sea level the sound barrier is 650 mph?Cheers</blockquote>