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PILOTS practicing for the World Aerobatics Championship were accused of making life a misery for Crow Country residents. Planes were swooping over Royston and the surrounding villages as their pilots geared up for the championships being held at Silversto
PILOTS practicing for the World Aerobatics Championship were accused of making life a misery for Crow Country residents.
Planes were swooping over Royston and the surrounding villages as their pilots geared up for the championships being held at Silverstone in Northamptonshire.
Peter Shuttleworth, of Ashwell, said: "The noise is completely annoying and monotonous. You go out in your garden and all hell breaks loose."
Another resident, Tina Foulser, from Therfield, said: "It's really awful. It's been going on for two or three weeks and we never get a break."
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However, aerobatic pilot Mark Jefferies, based at Little Gransden airfield, said people should cut the pilots some slack.
He said: "Eighty per cent of people in this country fly on commercial airlines, and a lot of the big airline pilots do aerobatics in their spare time. It's their way of relaxing," he said.
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