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Old 17th Nov 2005, 20:52
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BEagle
 
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JF - my list was restricted to places in nice parts of the UK which were still RAF flying stations when I joined.

Driffield had been a Thor base and then virtually abandoned years before I joined. But I understand that the Blackburn Aircraft Works test flew the odd Bucc from there whilst HoSM was being resurfaced in 1967-8.

But these days it's a grunt base where squaddies learn to drive lorries by numbers.

Now if Duncan Sandys had never been voted in, perhaps I might have flown P1121s from Merryfield.....




I was once told that 'they' were going to name the P1121 the Hurricane 2. As a former 'awker, do you know whether that was true?
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