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Old 20th Apr 2019, 08:19
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BEagle
 
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The 527th at Alconbury did a pretty good job of 'Red Air' aggressor work back in the early '80s. Their F5s were hard to spot and very nimble - who remembers hearing "Tracking...tracking...Atoll...Atoll!". Tried to pull one up in the vertical once - and ended up with more AoA units than IAS. Oops!!

During my F-4 course, we had some DACT towards the end. The opposition were a pair of Hunters with 100 gallon tanks flown by 79 Sqn instructors versus our fatigue conserving g-limited Charlie fit jets. Oh how they chuckled!
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