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Old 19th Jul 2005, 23:57
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I recall the F-18 guy that did a similar thing over Farnborough town in 96 (?), and was blackballed for the rest of the week. From a regularity view, strange.
Very very true. There have been many transgretions and bannings over the years.

Maybe they figured the jet we have all paid for over the years (wayyyyyy over budget as is usual for British Waste of Space) should start to earn its keep at last ??

From a pilot point of view, the guy did fantastic to recover from the situation. He saved an expensive jet ... and more imortantly ... his butt. But from a standards point of view (of which he is RAF expert), why did it get to that stage before he tried to recover ??

Hopefully he will feed the answers to Typhoon pilots and we won't see them spoil UK airshows with any needless crashes.
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