Typhoon Fighter Jets flying overhead (Olympics) I'm a great big wuss...

[WorraLiberty]

Oh I know I'm being unreasonable really but every time I hear the deafening sound of RAF fighter jets flying overhead...like they were 10 minutes ago (which they only seem to do at night??) it scares the beejayzus out of me

I live less than 10 mins on a train from the Olympic Stadium and worry that if they have to shoot anything out of the sky...they're going to do it over my house?!?

I admit to laughing when I read they're going to store surface-to-air missiles on the roof of a block of council flats near the stadium...but it's not funny really!

Well ok it was a bit funny cos I know the block of flats they mean and all I can say is they're going to need to bolt them down, or they'll find they've been nicked and replaced with a block of bricks

Anyway, the thought of a terrorist attack (God forbid) is a very worrying one...whether it's in the sky or on the buses/trains.

And hearing the jets flying overhead just makes it seem all the more real in a way.

Like I said...I'm a wuss

Would they try to force stuff out from the main airspace over London before shooting it down? Can they even do that? This thread is making me antsy now :(

Have you seen the olympic 2012 conspiracy theory stuff? It is more likely to be a bomb carried by foot, than a plane.

This Typhoon stuff is a publicity stunt, no different to Russia/China having parades of their weapons!

Would it depend on the type of aircraft catgirl?

LadywithEDS im gonna go and google that now! but I really do agree that its more likely to be on foot than anything else as that would be much easier to do/harder to detect.

Squeakytoy are all those pics yours? im clueless about flickr, are those lovely squirrel/fox and birds pics yours? they are lovely.

Yes I am sure it is much easier to orchestrate something on foot than hijacka plane so the jets are more "show of force" than anything else

Off to google the consipiracy stuff and then spend the next 2 hours trying to persuade DB to come and stay with me till it's all over :)

Amber, don't take the conspiracy stuff too seriously, it can get a bit ott. I had a good chuckle at some of conspiracy stuff the other week.

What was interesting to me was the wistle blower from the CIA and the knowledge the CIA had a month before 911.

Lots of wheat from the chaff sorting needed!

I think anyone considering a terrorist attack will not do it during the Olympics.
Security will be so tight during those weeks, it's the rest of the time you should all worry about.
And since there has been nothing since 7/7 it does look like the security services are doing a good job behind the scenes.

Yes we've just had a little laugh at some of it already!

re 911 yes I think some of that sounds suspect.

Amber, there is some interesting stuff you could look into like "builderburgers" and the building of the superstates of Europe, North America etc.

One of the things that strikes me as scary is the micro chipping of humans, it unsetles me as a Christian, I don't want a chip on my hand or forehead!

The lizzard stuff made me and

If there's a no fly zone over London, is City airport being shut down? What are they doing with the flight path to Heathrow? Whenever I've been in a stack waiting to land, you fly round and round London, and then head down the Thames (used to do the childish 'ooh, we can see our house from here' thing). And does anyone who lives near an airport just outside London need to panic?

Hope they are keeping a VERY close eye on a town near me where there have been several waves of arrests of suspected islamic terrorists over the past seven years... (obviously the arrests mean they have been, but need to be even more aware of every last fecker right now).

I wouldn't panic Edam, it is highly unlikely that there will be anything bad will happen at all during the olympics and even less likely that there will be a plane attack.

edam City airport is preparing to be very busy during the Olympics According to this

Mmmm...DD's flat is on the flight path of City Airport, between Canary Wharf and the airport - and she'll be working at the Olympic Park. I shall be very sensible and not panic!!!

I wish they'd come over here. I grew up next to military air base and I miss them, even the noise. Ds would be so excited (although disappointed the Red Arrows aren't with them) too.

I'm hoping to see HMS Ocean when I'm in London on Tuesday. Apparently it's open either today or tomorrow for anyone who wants to visit - bet there's long queues!

I must be the only one who really doesn't like planes at all. The noise terrifies and distresses me and I'd rather do almost anything than go to an air show. I do fly when I have to for holidays but am very glad to get there and away from the airport.

I'm not panicking. I lived in London through the IRA bombing campaigns, and was commuting the day before 7/7 to the location of the bus bomb. BUT I do think the idea of putting surface to air missiles on the roof of a residential block of flats in a residential area is scary - the supposed 'cure' is no better than the disease.

The people panicking are the politicians, who keep telling we have to lose our freedoms in order to fight people who want to take away our freedom. We didn't have armed police on the streets of London, on routine patrols, during the IRA bombings. You never saw armed police at railway stations. And we used to be able to visit parliament without seeing PCs with great big machine guns at the door.

Perhaps the powers that be think that by showing off this "power" * and thats a joke because there's very little power left in the military, that potential terrorists will re-think their plans

I'd rather have the security, and end up not needing it, than need it and not have it available.

Whatever choice the security forces make for the olympics will upset some people, so damned if they do, and damned if they don't.

Edam - you never saw armed police at railway stations during the IRA bombings, but I know they were there - I'm married to one of them.

I reckon the missiles are to put off rioters as well as terrorists.

Hahaha! It took long enough to get permission to use water canons

Imagine if they just bombed the bastards with a huge missile

They are a necessary evil I'm afraid :) I live in the village where these Typhoons are based, so am very used to the noise (which you do get used to).

I'd rather have them than not!

at the sugggestion of zapping rioters with SAMS [surface to air missiles]

I may live just down the road from you :0

Lol Catgirl, I suspect you probably do :)