Had a noteworthy sight on a schooltrip trainride from Halle to Thale (Harz Mountains). On a sunny Summer day in 1995
before entering vincinity near Neinstedt I saw a Luftwaffe Tornado pacing very low over wheat fields (less than 5m), he reduced speed to fly with us,
dust clouds after him. Thought I was drunk. Coming closer to wave at us. Distance to train was 20m or so.
In our waggon was fury, all came to watch this. Our Teachers mouth stood wide open, we yelled.
Suddenly after wing whiggling he swept his wings and departed in a full speed ahead over the mountain landscape towards West.
Remember an airflow blow that emerged at the tail before swoosh. We sat in the last car of a common Inter Regio, the loco driver must have got
a heartache when passing this.
2 hrs later we stood at Hexentanzplatz a famous landscape sight. When the air crumbled and yet another Tornado broke the
sound barrier above us, you could trace the Kreuz on his Wings, but this time it was 100-200m above us, in a safety.
On the Map I could trace that the Tornados followed a flightpath, as the direction of the first Tornado was Hexentanzplatz
and the railways at that location pointing towards it and long enough for such show ups.
Still very very loud, the day was awesome, 2 sights of Tornados, I haven't dreamed of that. But I could
have bite my buttom, as I forgot to keep it's serial. Was so amazed, but all over within 1 minute.
In the media there was a focus on our politicians in the aim of cutting the air force from such training around that time,
the public and environmental activists doing rants.