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Old 9th May 2005 | 19:39
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BEagle
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
During Giant Voice 1979, we had a 'fighter box' in which we would be intercepted by F-106s. A bit tricky to defeat, given the width of the permitted route. Anyway, our AEO detected an F-106 having a sniff, so we eased over to the edge of the route and sneaked down as low as we thought we could get away with, waited until he got close, then pulled up hard into him with about 90 deg of bank and a lot of power, reversing back onto track as he broke upwards in surprise. It would be fair to say that it put him off his aim, no-one else had done that....and we scored well for that event!

Had the great privilege of taxying XM655 a week or so ago. We only went up to 80% on symmetric pairs of engines, so no rutting dinosaur howl, but the sound and smell brought back a lot of memories!
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