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Old 6th Mar 2005, 08:57
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From what I remember the pilot telling me, the Hawk was a Fradu one doing its ship attacking thing. Goldfish bowl type day, so flying a little bit higher than normal in company with playmate. Didnt notice very, very gentle rate of descent and first incking of something wrong when banking for gentle turn (nasty day, so being careful) and wing hits water at 500ish kts. Bounced up, striped metal off and iirc caused some flap, aileron restriction problems. Low speed handling check and home. he told me about it in the Datum some days later and still looked a bit pale.
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