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Old 9th Nov 2007, 20:11
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BEagle
 
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Well, I flew the wonderful Hunter at Valley (Hunter refresher when jindabyne was a QFI!), TWU at Brawdy on 234 (another superb outfit), then went to Wittering to join 58 Sqn as the last $hag JP posted to a Hunter squadron.....

....was the idea. Unfortunately 'they' wanted to pinch half of the 45/58 fleet to bail out the engineers at Brawdy. Our gleaming F(GA)Mk9s were all in excellent fettle, compared to the scruffy things at Brawdy. The Boss was told of the idea, and said "If you're going to pinch half my jets, there's not much point in the squadrons carrying on for another 6 months. "Funny you should say that", 'they' said - and brought the axe forward 6 months. So back I went to Brawdy to await another posting - but at least got to fly the well kept Wittering jets after the guys flew them over to Pembrokeshire International!
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