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Old 27th Apr 2018, 20:45
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Danny42C
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Around 1952 was flying a 608 (Aux) Squadron Vampire one Sunday afternoon. Vis very poor,. Doing a QGH (04 Safety Lane inbound) into Thornaby,, spotted "Airfield in Sight" , over to Local, join, downwind, finals, land ........ (Thornaby Local hadn't seen me, was reading Sunday paper through all this).

Oops! - had to do a roller - airborne again, had to ask Thornaby Local: "Call SDO at MSG for me, apologise, I've just done a roller there by mistake!" ,,,, Loud catcalls and guffaws on R/T.

(Well, the runway patterns were identical, same hangars, and they were only six miles apart) ..... 608 Boss livid ! .... Ah, well. Danny.