Originally Posted by
vascodegama
The F111s arriving at Boscombe had nothing to do with the raid; I seem to remember that was later in the year and raised a lot of erroneous speculation.
I remember the Cannon F-111s (and some EF-111s) were at Boscombe in September '86; I recall driving down to see them and stopping by Blackbushe on the way back to see if there were any interesting visitors as it was Farnborough week.