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Old 2nd May 2020, 12:59
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teej013
 
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I was sitting on a Jammer, (weapon loader) at the 27 threshold waiting to cross to the other side of Stanley's runway, when I was a little suprised by a Nimrod appearing out of the murk and setting down in front of me. Turns out a Mr Heseltine had hitched a lift down in one of his cabs for a visit. Got a rather grainy blurred pic somewhere from a battered old 110 camera I used to carry. As far as I remember That Matting runway was a little shorter than 6000 ft and it used to "walk" a little every time one of the F4 landed on, the RE's used to have to hitch up some large diggers and tow it back to it's correct position every few months...
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