I think one flew over my gran's house for an airshow and she claimed it cracked a window. She was so angry we went to the council office. I was about two, so have little memory of this exciting event. I presume the council fixed the window.
Didn't they float one down the Thames on a barge several years back or has my highly fertile imagination provided me with an image of it sailing by Isleworth while I scoffed an ice cream? (actually, it might just have been the nose).
I did, on the other hand, enjoy the surreal image of the Space Shuttle in NYC as they moved it up the Hudson to the USS Intrepid Museum, viewed down the cross streets you couldn't see the barge so it actually seemed to be floating through the city – a few day's previous I got to watch another Space Shuttle doing its final laps around Washington DC astride the 747 (the combination really looks like it shouldn't fly), which was pretty awesome, though my wife trumped me by landing at Dulles at the same time as the Shuttle landed (well, the 747 and a couple of support planes). If I recall, they were sending Enterprise to NYC and replacing it with Discovery. I grew up with the Space Shuttle so I was a very happy person. It was surprising how worn Discovery looked, they'd worked it hard.