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Old 7th Apr 2018, 13:32
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Seem to remember some very 'spirited' graduation flypasts at Linton in late 82 early 83 - the Buccs were the favourite participants as they were always faster and lower than anyone else. One came between the hangars (lower that the top) in a hard turn as doing it wings level would have been a bit tight!

Happy days and nothing like it to better enthuse us students to work harder to be 'that guy'.
That Buccaneer flypast (late 1970s) was the last straw which resulted in our course graduation day not being allowed a flypast at all. The CI heard a loud "whoosh", looked up from his desk (first floor of the offices on the front of the hangar), just in time to see the tops of two flying helmets in a tandem cockpit go past his window - aircraft AOB almost 90 degrees. Nothing to do with us, we just happened to be the next course to graduate.
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