Originally Posted by
The AvgasDinosaur
Many many years ago when the French were being even more impossible than normal. A Britannia 737 got stuck at Manchester and was required at East Midlands, couldn't get a slot between all the tightly packed traffic from EDI, GLA, NCL etc so the ferry went special VFR not above 1,500' out of the TMA, bet the crew were still grinning at Castle Don.
Another amusing event was the BofB Memorial flight and Sally B leaving Barton air show southbound down the low level route frightening the bejabbers out of some poor BR train jockey driving heading north
Be lucky
David
I really bet the surrounding neighbors liked the noise
of a 737 at 1,500' hahahaha I know it would have been a an awesome site and sound
to the crew on that one!
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