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Old 9th Aug 2007, 13:24
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Dick Whittingham
 
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Nope. We were just called "The CFS Aerobatic Team" or, mostly "you lot". We flew JP3s in standard CFS livery, but we did have a smoke kit fitted in place of the right hand bang seat. We had minimal backup, and even had students allocated on the course at Rissie who we were supposed to teach on our days off. At Paris we were based at Creil/Senlis with the Lightning team, who stole all the transport leaving us to hire local jalopies.

Memory fades, but I think the next season the team went to 5, and got the red all-over paint sceme and the name "Red Pelicans"

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