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Old 16th Oct 2020, 15:35
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Originally Posted by POBJOY
Makes you realise what the Corps lost when they 'upgraded'.
Zillions of 'SOLO's', and single seaters that Cadets could fly even at Halesland. !!!!
What really brought that home was dragging the ancient but serviceable wooden stuff out of a hangar full of 'unserviceable' glass ships at Hullavington...

We always looked longingly across the airfield at WSM at the high performance Ka6, Skylark 4 and the hot glass ships, but at least we were flying, which is more than can be said for this generation of Cadets
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