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Old 31st Oct 2019, 16:26
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beardy
 
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Originally Posted by FarWest
We used to contract Concorde to fly large supersonic figures of 8 over the north sea and used Lightnings and F4s to fly practice intercepts against Concorde.

Allegedly a Lightning flown by D*** G****** overtook the Concorde and barrel-rolled around it. The Concorde crew were not impressed.

FW
That's a good story, considerably 'embellished' from the one I heard.

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