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Old 1st Sep 2021, 22:28
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BEagle
 
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I was at a mate's wedding on 25th Aug 1984 and was enjoying the reception at the Langdale Chase Hotel on Ambleside. At one point a pair of Firecrappers flew up the lake at low level - I gather they were being used for training Iraqi air force pilots by 'Specialist Flight Training' at Carlisle? "Fly past is on time", I quipped...

Boscombe TPs weren't very impressed by the wretched thing. But the Tucano, PC-9, Turbo Firecracker and the paper Australian proposal were all SO slow compared with good old JP5!!
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