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28th Nov 2023, 20:19

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Originally Posted by BEagle

The role of a typical Advanced Flying School 70 years ago:

As for helicopters, during a particularly stressful day at RAF Brawdy early in my Hunter course, our jovial flight commander joked whilst making a cup of coffee in the crewroom "Of course if this is all a bit too much for you, you can always ask to go to helicopters!". Two of my colleagues took him at his word and the next thing we knew they were off the station to start their new courses.....

.....as navigator students!

and what has that got to do with the original question ?

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