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Old 9th Oct 2021, 08:00
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brakedwell
 
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OUAQUKGF Ops - Your photo of GAWMH at Port Etienne reminds me of an incident at Bovingdon when I was on Coastal Command Com Flt in 1962. A Fighter Com pilot couldn't get one of his main wheels to come down, so he retracted the good one, shut down an engine, and motored the prop to a horizontal position, then started an approach. Just before he reached the threshold of the north easterly runway he shut down the engine, ran the prop to horizontal and did a wheels up landing. We all went out to look at the Anson, which was completely undamaged!
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