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Old 23rd Mar 2021, 11:17
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teeteringhead

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Some years ago, in the 1980s, I worked with an aged Spec Aircrew Sqn Ldr (aged! about 15 years younger than I am now) who had flown a Meteor in the Coronation Flypast. He said the Sabres were the biggest problem in the (very) mixed formation - they kept flaming out!

Which didn't stop them. He related calls like:

"Blue 17, flameout, descending..."

followed shortly by:

"Blue 17, successful relight, rejoining formation!"

Somehow can't imagine that today........ but then there were probably more aircraft in that formation than the RAF have today! (And he made the point that they were all from UK, none from RAFG or further afield).
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