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Old 29th Jan 2006, 09:08
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FJJP
 
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'Unidentified aircraft position xxxx, this is Royal Navy warship - you are approaching my exclusion zone. Turn away or you WILL be engaged'

'Royal Navy warship, this is Ascot xxxx, if you park your boat a mile from the runway I am about to land on, what the hell do you expect? Pratt.'

(HMS Ark Royal parked herself in the middle of Episcopy Bay during GW1, 1 mile from the threshold of rw 10 at Akrotiri, and promptly promulgated a 5nm 5000ft exclusion zone...)
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