Originally Posted by
uffington sb
ACW599.
i doubt if it did rollers as they needed ‘Mobile’ to talk them down over the threshold on account the pilot can’t see ahead. At AKT they had a big powerful car with a pilot driving giving heights to the PF, “That’s one hundred over the Tee” etc.
In the 80’s I drove passed Alconbury and there were four in the visual circuit!
I seen 'em do rollers with these tired ol' eyes. (At the very same aerodrome in Cyprus that they were never at.) I also had the honour to be downtown at the same time that the Swedish Netball Team were out having a few beverages... Happy Days.
The interesting fact about 'those flights' was that you could never be sure that the one that took off from there was the one that landed some time later ;P