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Old 7th Apr 2018, 08:03
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Originally Posted by nipva
FED,

'There was another video where an F4 went between the hangers. I don't know whether that was a flypast or a general 'handling exercise'.

This was at St Athan in 1986 and was flown by the then chief test pilot there. It was the custom on the post major servicing delivery flight to give a flypast to the team that worked the aircraft for the preceding 4 months. The gap between the hangars in question was 200ft.


I was there at the time & remember on one occasion a large seagull flying between the hangers as the Phantom passed. Luckily it did not get hit by the aircraft, but the sight of it rapidly rotating in a vortex was quite a sight to see!
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