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Old 3rd Jun 2007, 18:22
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Was there in late 60's- early 70's when Trebble one plus that other outfit - X X followed by one X and also TFF were in situ.
Lived in a beautiful little village in a chocolate box lid cottage but all the locals referred to Wattisham as "Ringshall Aerodrome". Very noisy at times but seem to remember sometime in late 71 or early 72 when a young Pilot Officer during an attempted take off late Friday one morning managed to bounce his Lightning along the runway. I believe the locals presented the O's mess with barrel of beer as the airfield was shut for a short period whilst the runway was resurfaced. I suppose as well as enjoying a couple of weeks peace and quiet they were happy that no ventral tanks were going to land in Stowmarket school playground. The little cottage was old shortly after we left and we were horrifed to see it on sale for 19,500 - ridiculous price we all thought. By the way to be pedantic it was not Death and sons it was D'Eath and they were joiners, carpenters and builders as well as undertakers.
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