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Old 3rd May 2023, 13:43
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I remember rebuilding an aircraft for a French gentleman, he was heading to somewhere north west of Paris but it was fogged in so he diverted somewhere else... Anyway, the long and short of it, he became lost and found himself low on fuel, so descended through the layer looking for somewhere to put it down and managed to pull of a landing in a plowed field along the furrows without any damage.

Welcome to Kent ... the problem then came as to how they would lift it out of the field and the USAF came to the rescue with a CH-53 doing it as a training exercise, it all was going swimmingly until the Sea Stallion arrived and the poor little thing was blown over onto its back crushing the arse end, that is where I became involved, we sourced the back end off one from a US breakers yard and nailed it together.
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