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Old 18th Feb 2005, 10:16
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wub
 
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How about this SOAF Jag?

http://www.flightlevel350.com/picwin...cat=19&pic=156

Incidentally, I remember some spectacular beat-ups when Chivenor closed in 1974/5? including an RN F-4 which came smoking over Heanton Hill at about 50' and flew across the runway even lower. I'll never forget the face of the radar tech who had just emerged from the GCA caravan with his back to the hill and didn't see the 'Toom coming towards him. I can still see his can of Coke spinning through the air in slow motion as the aircraft roared over head

When I were a lad I was in a small boat on Loch Sween in Scotland, fishing with my Dad. He suddenly stood up in this frail craft and shouted "Jesus Ch..." that was all he got out before an RN Buccaneer almost took our heads off. We were the only boat out there so they obviously used us as a target. I can remember the wake in the water and the heat as it passed over us.
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