I didn't know this was happening. I got home from the supermarket, bags in hand and had just opened my front door. I then heard a really strange noise in the sky. We get a lot of military flyovers as I live on the flight path from the tattoo, but this was a strange sound. After a few seconds, I looked up and saw a plane that was HUGE. Really, very, very big, slow and very low - it felt like just metres above my house. At first I didn't recognize it, wondering whether it was a military plane (no) and then whether it was a passenger plane in serious trouble. TBH, I only recognized it as an A380 from the tail fin as it had gone past, and then the trademark curved wings.

It's a word that is much overused these days, but this was truly awesome. In the very literal sense of the word.