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Old 9th Feb 2018, 10:37
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It must have been 1958 when I was on my Radar Mechanics course at RAF Yatesbury (H2SMk4A). One of the guys on the course, whose mother owned a Ladies Fashion shop in Newbury invited me to stay at the flat above the shop for the weekend (lovely Lady), as I only got to travel back to Edinburgh once in a "blue moon", so spent every weekend on camp. Paul had just bought himself a three wheeler "Messerschmitt" which had tandem seats like the B-47 (the only similarity)! On the Saturday, we decided to drive down to Greenham Common to see & photograph the B-47's there, or so we thought. Once we arrived & got out of the car at the perimeter fencing, jeeps & armed Military Police descended on us from all directions & ordered us to move on! We managed to get a fleeting glimpse of the B-47's & noticed their jet packs on the rear fuselage, but that was all.
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