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Old 1st Nov 2019, 02:45
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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
Have a hard time buying off on the barrel roll part.
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