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Old 21st Jun 2022, 22:29
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Originally Posted by mopardave
Relax mate.........you're not losing the plot! It did the same for me!!
And me...

Skimmed rapidly through the other thread, did anyone refer the WWII raid on German docks in western France (St Nazaire?) where the bombers and escorts overshot the target by some margin and most barely made it back to Blighty? Might have been Brian Kingcome who mentioned it in his book. Realised much later that the then largely unknown jetstream played a part, wondering if your chap may have been foxed by the same phenomenon, particularly if he was flying a PR Spit at 30000+ above overcast on his return. Just a thought...
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