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Old 5th May 2005, 07:47
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Gainesy

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Many thanks chaps, it'll still bug me, but not as much.

Jim, you thinking of "Lindholme Willy"? (A supposed spook not a nasty affliction of the nether regions).

Another memory was getting a clip round the ear (pun not intended, honest) after going home with a pocket full of rusty .303 rounds from the Wellington that crashed in the peat bog just east of Lindholme. It used to re-surface every so often in dry summers. There is/was supposedly a Hampden in there as well, but I never saw that.

Ah, nostalgia. Watching five or six Lincolns taxi out with all the hissing & squealing from the brakes and the noise of the run ups...

A lovely old aeroplane.
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