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Old 2nd Nov 2019, 10:11
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Originally Posted by pr00ne
Quite apart from a lot of what is appearing here sounding more than a little fanciful, I would imagine that if anyone barrel rolled around any intercept target, let alone a civil airliner, let alone Concorde, it would be the last flight in a military aircraft they ever made...
The late Brian Lecomber told me he did it once.
He was flying a Fokker Triplane replica in uncontrolled airspace south of Stansted and had the Stansted frequency tuned, so he heard an aircraft descending below controlled airspace near him.
He spotted it, pulled up and barrel rolled round it.
Then he heard 'Stansted, I've just been beaten up from below by a Fokker Triplane'!
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